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![Woodlawn Plantation House, Louisiana, 1941 Gelatin silver print Photograph by Edward Weston](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/press-room/thumbs/weston_plantation_500.jpg.webp?itok=rxHAOv3-)
Press Release - Exhibition Revisits Photographs Edward Weston Made for Walt Whitman’s "Leaves of Grass"
An exhibition opening this fall at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens considers a rich dialogue between two iconic figures in American culture: the renowned photographer Edward Weston (1886–1958) and poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892). “Real American Places: Edward Weston and Leaves of Grass” opens Oct. 22
Office of the President - President's Series Lectures
Lectures and programs from the Office of the President.
![A two-story building with a four-column portico and a staircase.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/2023-05/munger-research-center.jpg.webp?itok=jyyVuBe3)
Introducing the 2023–24 Huntington Fellows
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.
![Detail of open Gutenberg Bible](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/verso/featured/libtreasures-1.jpg.webp?itok=pLhAGiDo)
Out of Sight, Never Out of Mind
Monday will be your last chance to see the Library's most prized books and manuscripts for a while. Back in June 2012, many of The Huntington's treasures went on temporary display in the Scott Galleries of American Art when the Library Exhibition Hall closed
![Carter G. Woodson](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/blogs/woodson_sq.jpg.webp?itok=y6oTECcZ)
Historian Carter G. Woodson
Known today as the "Father of Black History," Carter G. Woodson (1875–1950) was one of the first Black historians to begin writing about black culture and experience
![Chefs Kajsa Alger, Mary Sue Milliken, and Susan Feniger. Photo courtesy of Bon Appétit. Photography by Bart Nagel.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/press-room/thumbs/celebrity-chefs_500.jpg.webp?itok=cJiXv26T)
Press Release - Border Grill’s Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken with Blue Window’s Kajsa Alger Partner with The Huntington to Create Dynamic New Dining Destination
Those who love Border Grill’s authentic, modern Mexican cuisine created by celebrated chefs Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken will be able to enjoy it in an unexpected new location starting on Nov. 2: the main café at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
![David Wilkie Supper at Emmaus from 1841](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/verso/featured/WilkieSupper-1.jpg.webp?itok=spTpWSuj)
New Home for a Hidden Treasure
It's not every day that a long-lost work of art appears out of nowhere. But that's what happened in the summer of 2013 when Tooey Durning placed a call to The Huntington. Tooey and her sister, Anne Durning, had inherited a painting from their grandmother.
![Detail of A.A. Milne’s illustration of King John staring at a row of Christmas cards](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/verso/featured/badkingjohn-1.jpg.webp?itok=9vYazHAv)
Bad King John
We love to hate villains. Harry Potter's Lord Voldemort horrifies us with his flagrant use of the Unforgivable Curses. Before him, Darth Vader of Star Wars fame was the true embodiment of evil as he built the Death Star and battled his children.
![Watercolor painting of sailing vessel](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/blogs/empire_sq.jpg.webp?itok=Ubi_dPQG)
The Image of Empire
A placid river lazily flows past verdant hills, a high mountain retreat rests beneath towering pines, and delicate arches glow in the warmth of the setting sun.
![Woman doing conservation on a book](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/verso/featured/preservesigns-1.jpg.webp?itok=Si1x4f4A)
Preserving the Signs of Censorship
Five hundred years before government officials in some countries got in the business of censoring Instagram feeds or Twitter accounts, the Roman Catholic Church was using ink to black out text that it considered dangerous.
![The Roofs of Liu Fang Yuan (detail), 2021–2022.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/press-room/thumbs/crafting-a-garden-01-roofs-6up-500x500.jpg.webp?itok=qiHh_yv1)
News Release - New Exhibition Will Explore the Making of The Huntington’s Chinese Garden
Visitors to The Huntington will have the chance to gain insight into the design and construction of its Chinese Garden in the “Crafting a Garden: Inside the Creation of Liu Fang Yuan”
![A person holds a small hinged-case with gold and velvet accents around a glass oval. Behind the glass is a formal portrait of a man; the viewer’s reflection is visible in the glass.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/2023-10/Linde-Lehtinen-Edgar-Allan-Poe-Daguerreotype.jpg.webp?itok=2QhHiCU0)
Reflecting on Daguerreotypes
There are more than 70 daguerreotypes in The Huntington’s collection, each with stories as unique as the daguerreotype process itself. These miniature portals into 19th-century life preserve vital histories and allow viewers to engage in their own contact with the past.
![A microscope light illuminates a section of a painting.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/2023-12/edward-hopper-the-long-leg-under-a-microscope.jpg.webp?itok=JFOtER5J)
New Conservation Discoveries: Edward Hopper’s “The Long Leg”
While examining and treating Edward Hopper’s iconic painting “The Long Leg,” Christina M. O’Connell, the Mary Ann and John Sturgeon Senior Paintings Conservator at The Huntington, discovered something that others have overlooked.
![Octavia E. Butler, Map of Acorn from notes for Parable of the Talents](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/press-room/thumbs/mapping-fictions-sq_0.jpg.webp?itok=L1jIZncN)
News Release - Exhibition to Explore the Construction of Fictional Worlds through Maps and Novels
On the occasion of the centennial of James Joyce’s Ulysses, “Mapping Fiction” includes works by Octavia E. Butler, William Faulkner, Jack and Charmian London, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Mark Twain, among others.
![Detail of a 19th century recipe for shredded codfish](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/verso/featured/Vermont-01.jpg.webp?itok=UzHNBrGT)
COOKBOOK COLLECTION | From Vermont Kitchens
Another post in a series from the cataloger of the Anne M. Cranston cookbook collection, which consists of approximately 4,400 British and American cookbooks from the 19th and 20th centuries. In this series, Shelley shares fascinating recipes
![Paul Caponigro photograph of Tralee Bay, County Kerry, Ireland in 1977](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/verso/featured/JennyIris-2.jpg.webp?itok=5uCyvPEi)
Two American Photographers at Home
It may come as no surprise to you, savvy reader, that the years spent preparing for a major exhibition are fraught with considerable challenges and no small amount of pain. An elusive loan, an uncooperative colleague, an intransigent donor, an unanticipated expense
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Volunteering to Decipher Paul Conrad
Meet Huntington volunteer Dennis Harbach. Over the past two years, Harbach has laughed, cried, and winced his way through the gargantuan task of producing searchable metadata for the satirical cartoons in the Paul Conrad papers.
![Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ca. 1860, photo by Allen & Rowell.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/verso/featured/concord-1.jpg.webp?itok=TEicZj9W)
Society and Solitude in Concord
In the middle of the 19th century, the small town of Concord, Mass., had an outsized reputation as New England's intellectual center. This was in large part thanks to the fame of four writers who called the place home
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The Name of the Rose
An old Hollywood crowd graces bed number 15 North in The Huntington's Rose Garden. 'Ronald Reagan' and 'Nancy Reagan' naturally stand together, with 'Ginger Rogers' to one side, 'Dick Clark' on the other, and 'Lucille Ball' and 'Cary Grant' nearby.
![Asuka Hishiki's drawing of Black Pine Half-Cascade-Style Bonsai](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/verso/featured/OutofWoods_1.jpg.webp?itok=fppgvSjx)
Out of the Woods
Visitors to public gardens tend to view trees as background. Exotic blooms, shimmering ponds, and sweeping vistas of color draw the eye more readily. "Out of the Woods: Celebrating Trees in Public Gardens"
![Photograph of Munger Research Center](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/verso/featured/NewFellows_1_deb.jpg.webp?itok=fYO7uIB8)
The New Fellows
As one of the world's leading institutions for collections-based research, The Huntington has for almost a century provided essential support and a congenial environment for the conduct of scholarship in the humanities...
![In 1984, Lily Lee Chen became the first female Chinese American mayor in the nation.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/blogs/1-msslily_lee_chen_papers_box_1_lily_lee_standing.jpg.webp?itok=tL5LIXzt)
Lily Lee Chen, Mayor of Monterey Park
On April 13, 1982, Lily Lee Chen was elected to the city council of Monterey Park, a city in the western San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County that had become one of the first “suburban Chinatowns” in the United States. In 1984, Chen made history by becoming the first female Chinese American mayor in the nation.
![Karen Zimmerman, John Trager, and Kelly Griffin](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/verso/featured/forward-1b.jpg.webp?itok=ZB7TL-8a)
Paying it Forward
John Trager and Karen Zimmerman labor quietly throughout the year propagating plants for The Huntington's International Succulents Introductions (ISI) program. Described as "a shopper's paradise and a unique conservation program" in the spring/summer 2006 issue of Huntington Frontiers
![Njideka Akunyili Crosby, “The Beautyful Ones” Series #1c, 2014.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/2022-09/Njideka-Akunyili-Crosby---The-Beautyful-Ones-Series---number-1c---500x500.jpg.webp?itok=k-PMnnaQ)
News Release - “The Hilton Als Series: Njideka Akunyili Crosby” Coming to The Huntington
The exhibition of works by the Los Angeles–based artist is the last in a trilogy of shows on contemporary female artists curated by The New Yorker magazine critic Hilton Als.
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Press Release - The Huntington Launches New Era in Dining, Partnering with Bon Appétit Management Co.
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has ushered in a new era of destination dining on its historic grounds by contracting with Palo Alto-based Bon Appétit Management Co. for dining and catering services.