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Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material consists of 58,093 black-and-white negatives, color transparencies, black-and-white prints, and color prints; 39 presentation albums; and 17 boxes of office records, 1930-1974. Created primarily by Maynard Parker, the archive documents the residential and non-residential work of architects, interior designers, landscape architects, artists, builders, real estate developers, and clients associated with these fields, foremost among them the magazine . Also included in the collection are photographs taken by other individuals, such as architect Cliff May and Parker's assistant, Charles Yerkes.

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“Mormonism and the West” consists of PDFs generated from reproductions of original letters, diaries, journals, reminiscences and other records lent to The Huntington during the 1940s and 1950s by descendants of pioneering Mormon families, through the assistance of Mormon historian Juanita Brooks, as well as copies acquired from institutions such as Brigham Young University. The 160 reels of negative microfilm were converted to PDFs by the Huntington Library in 2013, and online catalog records were created to improve access to these documents. Nearly all these documents focus on the history of the Mormon faith during the 1830s and 1840s, the ...

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The Otis Marston Colorado River Collection depicts the history and landscapes of the Colorado, Green, San Juan, Salmon, and Snake rivers for the period 1870-1978. Its photographs, while focused on 20th-century recreational river-running, also document historical events and public policy issues concerning those regions drained by these river basins. Though many of the images were taken by Otis Marston, the work of over 600 other photographers is present among the 39,000 photographs.

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Photographs in the digital collection primarily document the history and development of the American West, with an emphasis on 20th-century Southern California and Los Angeles. Links below include collections digitized in part or entirely.

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The Printed Books digital collection contains images of selected unique or significant items in the Huntington Library. Most were digitized in programs targeting certain discrete genres of material. Strengths include the quarto editions of plays by William Shakespeare and his contemporaries, the illuminated books of William Blake, and English broadside ballads.

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The Prints and Ephemera digital collection features a range of 19th- and 20th-century items from North America and Europe, including maritime materials promoting clipper ships and ocean liners, art education ephemera for students of all ages, pictorial letter sheets depicting life during the California Gold Rush era, fruit crate labels documenting California’s citrus industry, and propaganda posters that sold the First World War.

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The Huntington Library is home to extensive collections documenting the history of slavery and abolition in the United States and the Atlantic World. As of today, it contains two recently acquired account books that represent two diametrically opposed sides of the story of human bondage – the slave trade and abolitionism. The ledger of William Davenport & Co. includes entries documenting the sale of enslaved laborers in Jamaica, Dominica, and throughout the West Indies. The account book of Zachariah T. Shugart, who operated an Underground Railroad stop in Michigan, lists the names of 137 men and women whom he and ...

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Aside from major hydroelectric and power projects and facilities, the negatives, photographs, and albums found in the Southern California Edison (SCE) archive also depict employee gatherings, streetscapes, advertising, agriculture, exhibitions, small businesses, sports and recreational facilities, electrical appliances, education, and suburban development.

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The Eckert Papers include the ledgers used by the operators employed by the Washington United States Military Telegraph (USMT) office and those attached to the Army of the Potomac; Thomas Eckert’s own letterpress books; and keys to the military ciphers in use between 1862 and 1866. Digitization and transcription of these resources were made possible by the National Historic Publications and Records Commission.

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The collection includes images featured in the exhibit A Strange and Fearful Interest; the Joel B. Clough (1823-1881) collection of photographs of Union railroad engineering projects in Virginia, and scrapbooks assembled by Civil War correspondent and illustrator James Edward Taylor (1839-1901).

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