Huntington Library

A selection from the Huntington’s millions of manuscript items on a range of topics related to the history and culture of America and the British Isles, as well as the history of science, medicine, and technology, dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.

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The Map collection in the Digital Library contains approximately 8,000 images of cartographic materials, ranging from 16th-century European portolan charts to 20th-century California land-use maps. Among the sub-collections are maps owned by British explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton; the Museum Book Store Maps, which include maps of the Americas and the West Indies from the 16th–19th centuries, purchased from the Museum Book Store, London, in the 1920s; the Solano-Reeve collection of surveys of Los Angeles and Southern California tracts; as well as printed tract maps from the Rare Book collection.

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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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The Huntington Library encompasses a range of materials for the study of the Pacific Rim, a region of immense breadth and a diverse network of people, cultures, and societies. This Pacific Rim collection features a curated selection from legacy and recently acquired collections of digitized photographs and documents from these materials, with emphasis on Chinese American and Japanese American history in Southern California and beyond. Subject areas include immigration history, early Los Angeles Chinatown communities, early Japanese American flower growers and florists, Japanese American incarceration during World War II, and family history.

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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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