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The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Digital Collection is a compilation of selected holdings from collections housed in the archives and special collections of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; the California Historical Society, San Francisco; The California State Library, Sacramento; Stanford University, Stanford; The Huntington Library, San Marino; and The Society of California Pioneers, San Francisco. Presenting approximately 14,000 images and 7,000 pages of text, the digital collection makes accessible material related to the history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco, as well as presenting material on other areas affected throughout the state. The project …

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The Huntington Library holds significant manuscript material – letters, notes, documents, maps, etc. – related to America’s presidential Founders George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. There are also significant materials from later presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. These materials are found among other personal and family papers and archival collections owned by the Library. The George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln materials have been organized in artificial collections assembled at the Library.

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The Architecture, Design, and Planning collection features selected materials from The Huntington’s larger holdings of plans, renderings, photographs, and project records from some of Los Angeles’s earliest and most important architects, including James Dolena, Edward Warren Hoak, Samuel Lunden, Wallace Neff, and Florence Yoch & Lucile Council. Notable resources include outstanding items featured in the 2018 exhibition Architects of a Golden Age, as well as archival microfilm of the no-longer extant Morgan, Walls & Clements records.

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California Revealed is a State Library initiative to help California’s public libraries, in partnership with other local heritage groups, digitize, preserve, and provide online access to archival materials - books, newspapers, photographs, audiovisual recordings, and more - that tell the incredible stories of the Golden State. We also provide free access and preservation services for existing digital collections for partner organizations with in-house digitization programs. California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.

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For two years, two months, and two days—beginning on July 4, 1845—Henry David Thoreau lived in a ten-by-fifteen-foot cabin that he built facing the shore of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, on property that had been purchased by Ralph Waldo Emerson in fall 1844. Thoreau went to the pond to write a book memorializing an 1839 river trip he took with his brother, John, who died in 1842. While living at Walden he finished a draft of that book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), and in 1846 be began a second writing project based on his …

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Representing a fraction the Library’s extensive holdings of original sources in Hispanic history, these digitized materials span in time and coverage from Colonial Mexico to twentieth-century California. Subjects include the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and the migrant experience; religion, cultural life and ethnicity in Colonial Mexico; and early Spanish observations on the natural history of the Americas. Materials are drawn from personal letters, ecclesiastical records, and scholarly treatises. This section of the Huntington Digital Library is growing, and additional materials from other collections are to follow.

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The History of Medicine and Allied Sciences digital collection features materials from The Huntington’s larger holdings of printed materials and manuscripts. Highlights include astrological miscellanies and medical recipe books from the Middle Ages, in addition to selected rare books and broadsides from The Huntington’s collection of medical incunabula – one of the largest outside of Europe and the United Kingdom.

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This section of the Huntington Digital Library documents the history of The Huntington and the life of its founder Henry Edwards Huntington through photographs and the institution’s annual reports. Materials date from circa 1850 to 2009, the year of the last annual report digitized for the Huntington Digital Library. The digitized images and reports were drawn from the Huntington Institutional Archives and Huntington Library photograph collections. The images document the early days of The Huntington Library, particularly its construction, reading room, work spaces, and staff, as well as The Huntington’s splendid gardens. The annual reports detail the history of one …

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Approximately 12,000 images, primarily taken by London himself between 1902 and 1916, document the poor in the City of London, the Russo-Japanese War, the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake and fire, London’s 18-month cruise through the South Pacific, a shipboard journey around Cape Horn, the Mexican Revolution, and London’s ranch in California’s Sonoma Valley.

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Since physicist and Silicon Valley pioneer Jay Last started collecting citrus box labels in the 1970s, the Last Collection has grown to more than 200,000 prints, posters, and ephemera of mostly American origin, and contains works by more than five hundred commercial lithographic companies. Digitized materials from the Last Collection include examples of commercial art documenting consumer culture, social history, and American lithography. For selections from other print and ephemera collections, see the Prints and Ephemera Collection in the Huntington Digital Library.

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