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One of the world's great research libraries with more than 11 million items spanning the 11th to 21st centuries, with works on display in the Library exhibition halls

Art Museum

British, European, American, and Asian art including more than 45,000 world-renowned examples of decorative arts, paintings, prints and drawings, photography, and sculpture

Botanical Gardens

Encompassing approximately 130 acres, the Botanical Gardens contain more than a dozen spectacular themed gardens with some 83,000 living plants including rare and endangered species

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Coral Lives: Literature, Labor, and the Making of America

Michele Currie Navakas—professor of English at Miami University and a 2017–18 National Endowment of the Humanities fellow—tells the story of coral as an essential element of the marine ecosystem, a highly sought-after ornament used for display and adornment, a global commodity, and a powerful political metaphor.

A painted portrait of a Spanish head of state in formal red and black clothing with gold details.

The Huntington Acquires Historic Portrait by Goya

The Huntington has acquired a historic portrait by Spanish master Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (“Goya”) (1746–1828). While The Huntington holds a number of Goya’s etchings and aquatints, Portrait of José Antonio Caballero, Second Marqués de Caballero, Secretary of Grace and Justice is the first Spanish oil painting to join The Huntington’s art collection and will complement its extensive holdings of Library materials on Spanish imperial history.

Text from an 1890 Superior Court complaint document.

How #MeToo Played Out in 19th-Century California

The extensive Los Angeles Area Court Records offer researchers invaluable evidence of everyday contestations over sexuality and gender relations in early California, the blurring of lines between sexual consent and coercion, and abuses of women whose economic survival was at stake.

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