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What Now: Collecting for the Library in the 21st Century, Part 1

Exhibitions

"Mechanics of Arithmetic" poster
Oracle, London, ca. 1790. Fan, hand-colored engraving and wood. Rare Books Collection. Purchase, Constance Lodge Rare Book Endowment, 2012. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino.
C. C. Pierce & Co., Venice-Del Rey Oil Field, July 9, 1930. Panoramic photograph. Ernest Marquez Collection. Purchase, with Library Collectors' Council subvention, 2014. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino.
Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood in a photobooth
You Chung Hong building
Jane L. O'Neal print Cordyline
Book of John Mandeville
Edmund Kirby, Autograph letter to Eliza Brown Kirby, Mexico City, September 27, 1847. Manuscript in ink on letterhead, 10-3/4x 8-3/8 in.  Edmund Kirby Papers. Purchase, Library Collectors’ Council, 2014. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino.
"Mechanics of Arithmetic" poster
Oracle, London, ca. 1790. Fan, hand-colored engraving and wood. Rare Books Collection. Purchase, Constance Lodge Rare Book Endowment, 2012. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino.
C. C. Pierce & Co., Venice-Del Rey Oil Field, July 9, 1930. Panoramic photograph. Ernest Marquez Collection. Purchase, with Library Collectors' Council subvention, 2014. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino.
Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood in a photobooth
You Chung Hong building
Jane L. O'Neal print Cordyline
Book of John Mandeville
Edmund Kirby, Autograph letter to Eliza Brown Kirby, Mexico City, September 27, 1847. Manuscript in ink on letterhead, 10-3/4x 8-3/8 in.  Edmund Kirby Papers. Purchase, Library Collectors’ Council, 2014. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino.

The Diamond Litho-Publishing. Co., Minneapolis. "The Mechanics of Arithmetic" poster from the series "The New Education," 1898. Color lithograph. 42 x 27 13/16 in. Gift of Jay T. Last, 2011. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino.

Oracle, London, ca. 1790. Fan, hand-colored engraving and wood. Rare Books Collection. Purchase, Constance Lodge Rare Book Endowment, 2012. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino.

C. C. Pierce & Co., Venice-Del Rey Oil Field, July 9, 1930. Panoramic photograph. Ernest Marquez Collection. Purchase, with Library Collectors' Council subvention, 2014. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino.

Photobooth pictures of Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood, March 30, 1953. Gelatin silver prints. 7 3/4 x 1 5/8 in. Gift and purchase from Don Bachardy, 2012. © Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, 2019. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino.

Electrical Products Corp., Neon lighting design for You Chung Hong building, Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1936-37. Pigments on paper on mounted board. 20 x 16 7/8 in. Gift of Roger S. Hong, 2006. © Courtesy of Federal Heath Sign Company, LLC, 2019. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino.

Jane L. O'Neal, Cordyline, in Environmental Memory Part I: Home Grown, 2001–2008, printed in 2009. Archival inkjet print, 44 x 30 in. Gift of the artist, 2014. © Jane L. O'Neal. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino.

The Book of John Mandeville, England, second half of the 15th century. Bound manuscript in ink and pigments on parchment. Purchase, David Zeidberg Library Acquisitions Fund, 2018. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino.

Edmund Kirby, Autograph letter to Eliza Brown Kirby, Mexico City, September 27, 1847. Manuscript in ink on letterhead, 10-3/4x 8-3/8 in. Edmund Kirby Papers. Purchase, Library Collectors' Council, 2014. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino.

vertical colored stripes

Oct. 19, 2019–Feb. 17, 2020

Library, West Hall