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At the Base of It
The Surprising Pairing of a 20th-Century American Bronze and a 16th-Century Italian Marble Fountain In the past year, Huntington staff and conservators have been busy examining and restoring outdoor...
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When John Trager talks about the plants available through The Huntington’s International Succulents Introductions (ISI) program, it’s almost like he’s trying to find homes for beloved pets. “This one...
View ArticleHitting the Books
While the Scripps interns were learning about paper conservation, UCLA graduate student Jacque Giebel was honing her book repair skills under the tutelage of The Huntington’s rare-book conservators. As...
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A River Runs Through It
A Novelist Finds a Kindred Spirit in John Constable Constable’s six-foot painting View on the Stour near Dedham (1822), one of six celebrated large-scale paintings of his childhood landscape, came to...
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Crafting a Community
Ceramist Harrison McIntosh Explains How He Made Himself at Home in Claremont California ceramist Harrison McIntosh is internationally recognized for the elegant stoneware he began creating in the...
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A Formative Experience In The Making In 2004, The Huntington’s book and paper conservators moved into a new work space on the second floor of the Munger Research Center. Much bigger, brighter, and...
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Good Chemistry
The Library’s Conservation Laboratory Preserves the Future of a Profession Scripps College junior Dinah Parker developed a love for art while restoring antiques at her family’s business. But her best...
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Scholar Richard White Gives Dimension to the History of the Railroad Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, a new book by historian Richard White, is “smashingly...
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Paying Dividends
How Home Savings & Loan Perfected the Art of Banking in Southern California Once upon a time there was a bank. But it did not look the way a bank does today: It had no drive-through ATMs, no...
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Mining the History of Coal in the American West
From the Archive: Huntington Frontiers, Fall/Winter 2008 Thomas Andrews was born in Boulder, Colo., and teaches history at the University of Colorado, Boulder. While he might live a mile high, he...
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