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Rose Garden

The three-acre Rose Garden contains more than 3,000 individual plants and more than 1,200 different cultivated varieties, with a spring bloom beginning in late March and extending beyond November.

A person stands in a dark doorway, next to artwork on the wall.
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Eve Babitz, Collage Artist

Mar. 19, 2024

Before Eve Babitz became a published writer, she was a visual artist, and her chosen medium was collage. Inspired by Joseph Cornell and Andy Warhol, she created the album cover art for Buffalo Springfield’s “Buffalo Springfield Again” and The Byrds’ “Untitled.”

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News Release - Centennial Celebration Offers Something for Everyone with a Range of Innovative Programs

Jun. 4, 2019

The Huntington's Centennial Celebration kicks off Sept. 5, 2019, setting in motion a yearlong series of exhibitions, public programs, new initiatives, and more—inviting people with a range of interests to engage with the venerable institution's collections and the connections they offer

View of Carolina Caycedo's artwork
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Rituals of Labor and Engagement

Nov. 21, 2018

When push comes to shove, there are two kinds of people in the world. The kind who will either run away from a fire or a fist fight, and the kind who will run toward it to get a closer look.

Aloe ferox with red inflorescences.
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Winter Cheer

Jan. 10, 2023

An array of winter-blooming plants from around the world are taking the stage at The Huntington, putting on floral performances that add vibrancy to the gardens at a time of the year that some might think is surprising.

The North Vista at The Huntington, after the planting of 22 new Livistona decora palm trees. Photo by Jessica Pettengill.
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New Palms Along the North Vista

Jan. 29, 2020

The North Vista—with its stately lawn, Baroque fountain, and Henry E. Huntington's personal sculpture collection—has been an iconic location at The Huntington

Photograph of Abraham Lincoln
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LECTURES | "More Like a Sermon"

Jan. 23, 2012

When Abraham Lincoln completed his Second Inaugural Address in the waning days of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass remarked that "the address sounded more like a sermon than a state paper."

2022–23 Awarded Fellowships

The Huntington annually welcomes long- and short-term research fellows, selected through a competitive peer-review process. These fellows are among the roughly 2,000 scholars who come from around the world each year to conduct academic research in The Huntington’s collections.

puyas in bloom
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Puyas in Bloom

May 23, 2018

A recent tour of Puya in the Desert Garden with The Huntington's curator of the desert collections, John Trager, turned me from a Puya Ignoramus to a Puya Enthusiast.

Mathias Poledna

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Portrait of Charles Dickens
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The Right Way to Remember Charles Dickens

Oct. 30, 2019

I was lucky enough to spend June 2019 as a Michael J. Connell Foundation Fellow at The Huntington, working with the James Thomas Fields Papers

Interactive installation in the library
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EXHIBITIONS | A Hands-On Experience

Dec. 5, 2013

Most people are familiar with the activities of a public library, those vital institutions that lend books, videos, music, and more to visitors. But what goes on in a library that isn't open to the public?

Front entrance to the Munger Research Center
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Advancing the Humanities

May 23, 2016

The Huntington and the University of California, Riverside, have selected the first two fellows for the highly competitive Huntington-UC Program for the Advancement of the Humanities, a partnership designed to boost the humanities at public universities.

Print of Battle of Gettysburg
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Turning Points in the Civil War

Sep. 12, 2018

The American Civil War witnessed dramatic shifts of momentum. As armies contended for supremacy on the battlefield, their successes and failures profoundly shaped politics and civilian morale on the home fronts.

Collage of images in blog post
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Looking Back at 2018

Dec. 26, 2018

As the year draws to a close, we invite you to revisit a dozen of our favorite stories from this year's Verso offerings.

Clara Huntington and her father, Henry E. Huntington, ca. 1900. Detail from a group family portrait taken in Oneonta, New York, where both Henry and Clara were born. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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Clara Huntington’s Lasting Tribute to Her Father

May 27, 2020

She was the eldest of three daughters from Henry E. Huntington's first marriage and shared her father's appreciation for art, books, and the beauty of California.

Alan Taylor. Photo by Lynn Friedman
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LECTURES | Thinking About that Other Civil War

Oct. 2, 2012

Lost in sesquicentennial commemorations of various Civil War anniversaries is the fact that we are in the thick of the bicentennial year of one of America's other Civil Wars—the War of 1812. Or at least that's how Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Alan Taylor sees it.

Extinct Hawaiian songbirds at the American Museum of Natural History
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Collections of a Feather

Oct. 5, 2012

When I was working on my recent book about Robert Ridgway, the Smithsonian's first curator of birds, I got to thinking about the large sets of stuffed birds, or "study skins," that he and his fellow bird professionals kept in drawers and cabinets in natural history museums.

Carved pumpkin
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Growing Up Huntington

Oct. 18, 2012

Halloween is but one of the many holidays that triggers childhood memories. For college student Galia Bar-Sever, a Halloween memory marks the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship with a place she loves.

Orchid Collection

With more than 10,000 orchids, The Huntington houses one of the largest orchid collections in the United States, specializing in an array of genera including Paphiopedilum, Phragmipedium, Cymbidium, Cattleya, Stanhopea, Lycaste, and various botanical species.

Vanessa Wilkie, Ph.D.

Vanessa Wilkie, Ph.D., is the head of the Library Curatorial department and curates the Library’s renowned collections of medieval manuscripts and British history. She earned her Ph.D.

A two-story building with a four-column portico and a staircase.
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Introducing the 2023–24 Huntington Fellows

May 23, 2023

Each year, The Huntington hosts roughly 150 long- and short-term research fellows, selected through a competitive, peer-review process that provides $1.4 million in awards.

Edison photographer Doug White’s overhead shot of three computer key punch operators creating data entry cards
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The Brave New (and Old) World of Data

Nov. 17, 2016

Data, made up of units so uniform as to be, almost by necessity, boring, unite to form collectives of information in a data-driven world that is recognized now as exciting, sexy, and consummately modern. And not for the first time, we must add.