William Deverell
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G. Haven Bishop, Looking at Big Creek Plants 2 and 2A, May 29, 1929. Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives. Bishop wrote: “I believe this is the first picture we have taken since the…
Kevin Starr (1940–2017) speaking at the dedication of The Huntington’s Munger Research Center on Sept. 13, 2004. Photo by Don Milici.
At the dedication of The Huntington’s Munger Research Center in…
Alan Jutzi, Avery Chief Curator of Rare Books, on the job in 2007.
Today the Avery Chief Curator of Rare Books at The Huntington, Alan Jutzi, will kick up his office doorstop one last time and shut…
The chapter devoted to fin-de-siècle sexuality in Liz Goldwyn’s book Sporting Guide prominently features these illustrations from The Huntington’s copy of a book with a long and elaborate title: The…
Jessica Kim in the modern transnational city of Paris.
William Deverell, the director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, chats with USC doctoral student Jessica Kim about…
William Deverell, the director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, chats with USC doctoral student Andie Reid about her research. This is part of a series highlighting the…
Feathers from a blue quail have been pressed in the diary of Joseph Wood, who traveled overland to California in 1849.
William Deverell, the director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California…
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William Deverell, director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and professor of history at USC, recently published Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy that Transfixed the Nation (Angel City Press, 2021), in which he tells the story of a groundbreaking live TV news broadcast of a rescue attempt in 1949 to save a little girl who had fallen down a deep well in San Marino