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A Trailblazing African American Artist and Printer
Grafton Tyler Brown was one of the few African American artists and printers in the American West during the 19th century. He broke barriers as an illustrator and lithographer, a business owner, and a landscape painter.
Abortion in American History
On Jan. 17–18, The Huntington will host a research conference titled “Abortion in American History,” which will explore more than a century of abortion history in the United States before 1973.
E.A. Spitzka’s Studies of Exceptional and Deviant Brains
The Spitzka papers provide an invaluable resource for examining the intersection of medicine and criminal justice.
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Using the Library
Every year, researchers from over 30 countries make more than 20,000 visits to the Library’s reading rooms, and thousands more make use of the Library’s virtual services and digital collections.
Videos and Recorded Programs
Hdoc: Finding Judith
Videos and Recorded Programs
Hdoc: Books of Pictures & Pictures of Books
Videos and Recorded Programs
Family Archivists: Letters from Jane Austen’s Mom
Videos and Recorded Programs
A Thousand Years of Books: Printed in 1085
Videos and Recorded Programs
Multi-Storied Library: Positively One of a Kind - The Creation and Care of Daguerreotypes
About the Library
- One of the world’s largest collections of British medieval manuscripts, including the 15th-century Ellesmere manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
- One of 12 surviving copies on vellum of the Gutenberg Bible, the jewel of the second-largest collection of incunabula (15th-century printed books) in the United States.
- A leading repository for Americana, including extensive holdings for Lincoln, Washington, and Jefferson, and such gems as the original manuscript of Franklin’s autobiography.
- Extensive collections on the American West, including the great 19th-century photographic surveys and original sources about overland migration, industry and transport, and Native Americans.