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EXHIBITIONS | All the World’s a Page

Fri., Nov. 8, 2013 | Matt Stevens
As you enter the Library's Main Hall and walk straight ahead, one of the first things you'll see is a familiar treasure underneath a Plexiglas sign reading "A Landmark in Printing." The Gutenberg Bible (ca. 1455) anchors one of 12 sections in "Remarkable Works, Remarkable Times: Highlights from the Huntington Library,"
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“I have been & gone & done it!!”

Tue., Nov. 5, 2013 | Thea Page
Exactly 141 years ago today, a determined band of women in Rochester, N.Y., broke the law by voting in the presidential election of 1872. One of them was noted suffrage advocate Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906).
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EXHIBITIONS | Coaching Citizenship

Fri., Nov. 1, 2013 | Jennifer Goldman
Next Saturday, Nov. 9, "Remarkable Works, Remarkable Times: Highlights from the Huntington Library" will open in the Main Hall of the Library, a new installation of The Huntington's Library treasures. Anchoring 12 sections will be key works
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Tapping a New Mine of Research

Tue., Oct. 29, 2013 | Matt Stevens
Sutter's Mill. Forty-niners panning for gold. Lottery of the Golden Ingot? If you thought you knew everything about the California Gold Rush, think again.
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How Do You Frame a Masterpiece?

Thu., Oct. 24, 2013 | Catherine Hess
In 1921, Henry and Arabella Huntington purchased what would become the most famous work of art in their collection: The Blue Boy (1770) by Thomas Gainsborough. Its celebrity rests on many factors, not least of which is the superb quality of the painting
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VIDERE | Frame [video]

Fri., Oct. 18, 2013 | Kate Lain
Videre, Latin for to see, is a video series that plays with the idea of re-seeing. The short works featured here are explorations of sights, sounds, and sensing at The Huntington.
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Just What Bugs Us

Thu., Oct. 17, 2013
In times past, nature delivered challenges in an orderly manner. Every few years we'd hear about a remarkable new pest or disease that threatened whole populations of plants throughout Southern California.
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Orchid Masquerade

Mon., Oct. 14, 2013 | Matt Stevens
This weekend The Huntington hosts the annual Southland Orchid Show in the Botanical Center's Banta Hall. Billed this year as "Orchid Masquerade," the show promises to present exotic blooms