Manuscripts
Ahmanson reading room, August 26 1949
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Library rare book stacks under construction, July 14 1922
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A view of the steel supports below the rare book stacks. MS note below the picture reads "Bottom," since it would be difficult to determine which way is up otherwise. MS note on verso reads "Huntington Library stacks, July 14, 1922."
photCL 107 fld26 pg38
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Huntington Library institutional lantern slides
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Over 200 black-and-white lantern slides (photographs) of Huntington Library buildings, employees, library stacks, collections, and art objects. Lantern slides of the Huntington Art Gallery include exteriors and interiors of gallery rooms: Chippendale Room; Renaissance Room; Sculpture Gallery; French Room; New Gallery; Library Room. There are also slides of art objects or paintings. Images of the Library include the manuscripts stacks, the rare books stacks, people viewing books, conservation staff; photographic reproduction; and library staff. There is also a box of 100 lantern slides related to Mark Twain and his works, most likely used for lectures.
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Early view of Huntington Library exhibition hall
Visual Materials
MS note on verso reads: "HEH library, before January 1928 - while main exhibition hall was also rare book reading room." Stamp on verso reads "This print is released as a personal courtesy and is not for publication. All syndicate and publication rights reserved. Eyre Powell Press Service." Another copy is no. 347 Pictures Archives, box 4, folder 1.
photCL 107: folder 26 (3)
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Library building, 1922
Manuscripts
A view of the library building from the southwest. Typed note on verso reads "Huntington Library building and planting as it appeared immediately after completion."
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Huntington exhibition hall
Manuscripts
View of the library exhibition hall. Displays throughout the hall includes maps, books, and paintings. Stamp on verso reads "This photograph is made for the Huntington Library and Art Gallery by Keystone Photo Service, Los Angeles."
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Worlds of profit and delight: Popular reading in Renaissance England. July 2, 1999-August 20, 2000
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Collection of more than 80 catalogs and gallery guides of exhibitions installed from 1929 to 2022 at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. The catalogs were intended for the reference use of the Library's Chief Curator of Rare Books and are often annotated with the call numbers of the Huntington holdings ues in the exhibits. The catalogs represented here focus primarily on the Library exhibit spaces: the Main Library Exhibit Hall and the West Hall. Later publications also record exhibits in the Dibner Hall of Sciences and the Boone Gallery. A few concern related exhibition material in the Art Collections. These catalogs represent the most comprehensive record of which library copies were displayed, especially for the years 1931-1975. Notations about the availability of photostats, facsimiles and slides as well as installation dates are included on some catalogs. Some catalogs have multiple copies marked for the Curator, Rare Book Stacks and the Exhibition Office. Material dated after 1980 shows fewer annotations, and are primarily in the form of gallery guides, rather than catalog listings of items on display. Additional unannotated Huntington publications regarding the collections are also included (e.g. Preliminary handbook of the art collections).
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