Holiday Closure
The Library will be closed on Thursday, Nov. 25, and Friday, Nov. 26, 2021. We will reopen on Monday, November 29, 2021.
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Library Access - Reminders for Readers
Vaccination Policy
The Huntington is requiring all researchers to be fully vaccinated (two weeks have passed since their final dose) by the date of their appointment. Readers must present proof of vaccination to enter the Library.
Ahmanson Reading Room - OPEN
The Ahmanson Reading Room is open to all researchers 18 and older by appointment. Access is limited to those who wish to consult rare materials including both first-time applicants and renewing readers.
Appointments are available Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. and 1 p.m.–4 p.m. Rare materials must be requested in advance of your appointment. Apply for access and request an appointment (subject to availability).
We will continue to expand access as we are able to over the coming months.
As always, thank you for your patience as we continue our phased reopening!
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2022-2023 Fellowship Competition Deadline November 15th
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The Research Division is accepting Fellowship Applications for the 2022-2023 fellowship year for Long-Term Fellowships, Short-Term Fellowships, Travel Grants, and Exchange Fellowships until 12 p.m. PST on Nov. 15, 2021.
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Distant Explorer: Alexander von Humboldt and California
Virtual Lecture
Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021
12 p.m.–1 p.m.
Reservation required
In this lecture, ICW Director William Deverell and author and researcher Sandra Rebok offer a scholarly perspective on Prussian explorer Alexandar von Humboldt’s abiding and long-term interest in California, as well as California’s interest in Humboldt.
The Humboldt name is prominently featured across the California landscape: Humboldt Bay, Humboldt County, Humboldt Redwoods State Park, and elsewhere. Yet despite his desire to do so, Humboldt never visited California or the region now known as the American West.
Nonetheless, California attracted Humboldt's attention as the northern edge of the Spanish Empire and as the western border of the nascent American empire in the nineteenth century. His fascination with the region and his scientific significance help to explain all these cartographic references.
Sandra Rebok’s research focuses on exploration voyages, intellectual networks, and transnational collaborations during the 19th century. She has over 20 years of experience in Humboldtian scholarship, she is the author of several books on Humboldt and the editor of three of his works in Spanish. One of her recent books examines his intellectual exchange with Thomas Jefferson (Jefferson and Humboldt, 2014), while her forthcoming monograph, Humboldt’s Empire of Knowledge, analyzes Humboldt’s position between the Spanish Empire in decline and the expanding United States.
This program is presented by the Huntington–USC Institute on California and the West.
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The Huntington invites proposals from faculty and graduate students in the fields where the collections are strong to convene research conferences in the academic year, Sept. 2023-May 2024. The deadline to apply is Nov. 15, 2021.
For information and application guidelines, please visit our website.
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Newly Cataloged Collection
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Wallace Neff Collection
Wallace Neff (1895-1982) was a Los Angeles architect who designed many residential and institutional buildings of note in Southern California from 1919 to 1975. He was best known for his Spanish-Colonial revival homes for famous clients in the 1920s and 1930s, though he also designed university, religious, and other public buildings, and innovated a low-cost, concrete housing design he called the Airform.
The collection contains over 100 sets of drawings and plans, Neff's project files, writings and correspondence, job lists, daily journals, sketches and renderings, and photographs.
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Finding Aid
Photo: Amelita Galli-Curci residence, Westwood, Ca., 1938. Wallace Neff, architect.
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Reading and Rereading Hilary Mantel
Lucy Arnold
Lecturer of Contemporary English Literature at the University of Worcester
Hilary Mantel, whose literary archive is held at The Huntington, is one of the most critically acclaimed authors working today. Her unprecedented double Booker Prize wins for Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, combined with sold-out West End and Broadway stage adaptations and award-winning television dramatizations, have brought her to wide public prominence.
On Sept. 23, 2021, at the Gielgud Theatre in London’s West End, the curtain went up on the stage adaptation of The Mirror of the Light, the final novel in Mantel’s trilogy about the career of Thomas Cromwell in the court of King Henry VIII. This most recent chapter in Mantel’s literary career, which spans more than three decades, once again places the author center stage and offers an ideal moment to initiate a new series of debates about her work during The Huntington’s online conference “An Overflow of Meaning: Reading and Rereading Hilary Mantel” on Oct. 14 and 15.
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Huntington Library Quarterly
The Huntington Library Quarterly launched in 1937 and has been integral to the scholarly profile of The Huntington for over eighty years. Today it is an important interdisciplinary venue for academic studies of British and American history, literature, and art history in the early modern period.
The Huntington Library Quarterly invites submissions of research articles concerning the literature, history, and art of Britain and America from the sixteenth century through the long eighteenth century. These need not relate to the Huntington Library’s own collections; the site of research or sources has no influence on the evaluation of submissions.
See the HLQ Penn Press page for more information
See the full list of Penn Press journals here
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