Huntington Digital Library
Huntington Digital Library
The Huntington History collection is an artificial collection of photographs and text that deal with Henry Edwards Huntington, his family, and The Huntington as an institution. There are images from a variety of collections within the Institutional Archives and the Photograph Archives, and were donated or created by Huntington family …
Finding Aids describe and help users discover the contents of a collection. The selection of Finding Aids collected here may range from the very detailed (complete box, folder and item descriptions) to the very brief (a summary of the contents of the collection). Other Huntington Finding Aids may also be found in the Online Archive of …
The Map Collection in the Digital Library contains approximately 8,000 selected records from several smaller collections including the Museum Book Store Maps, Solano-Reeve, and Los Angeles County Assessor’s Office. The collection is strongest in California, the West, and North America. Additional entries will be added, and some …
The Photographs collection in the Digital Library contains a selection from the Huntington Library’s approximately 500,000 prints and negatives spanning the century from 1850 to 1950. This superlative collection, which covers a variety of topics from the American Civil War to the building of the transcontinental railroad, from "Grand …
The Rare Books collection in the Digital Library contains digital copies of selected unique or significant items from the Huntington Rare Books Department. This offers a small glimpse into more than 400,000 books, as well as broadsides, newspapers, and other printed formats, from the 15th century through the present. The more than …
The Manuscripts collection in the Digital Library contains a selection from the Huntington Library’s approximately six million manuscripts dealing with English and American history and literature from the 11th century to the present, and with the complementary fields of European medieval manuscripts, Renaissance exploration and …
The Prints and Ephemera collection in the Digital Library contains a selection from the Huntington Library’s holdings of more than 650,000 prints, posters, ephemera, color plate books and extra-illustrated books. American and British images dominate this incredible archive of visual culture spanning five centuries---from the 1500s …
Jay Last launched his passion for collecting printed paper while pioneering the American high-tech industry on the west coast. Considered one of the founders of Silicon Valley, Last made a business move in the early 1970s from northern California to the orange-growing south where citrus box labels at local flea markets sparked his …
This database contains 70,000 scanned images from the photographic archive of Southern California Edison (SCE). Spanning the years 1887 through 1975 (with the majority of images from the 1880s-1950s), the archive records key hydroelectric and other projects across the 15 central, coastal and southern California counties served by SCE, …
Maynard L. Parker (1900-1976) was a Los Angeles-based architectural and garden photographer who contributed images to many of the nation’s premiere home design publications from the late 1930s through the early 1970s. The collection consists of approximately 58,000 negatives, transparencies, and photographs as well as office records …
The images in The Otis Marston Colorado River Collection depict river-running, history, landscape, and individuals in the Colorado, Green, San Juan, Salmon, and Snake river basins for the period 1870-1978. The photos, while focused on the rivers include very substantial material on the entire drainage systems of these rivers and the …
Miniature books are amongst some of the “hidden” treasures of the Huntington Library. Mr. Huntington did not set out to collect miniature books, but because of his method of purchasing many other libraries en bloc, many miniatures came to the library as part of these other large collections. The original library staff established …
The Huntington Library is one of the world’s great independent research libraries specializing in the fields of British and American history, literature and the history of science spanning the 11th century to the present. Among the collections are 7 million manuscripts, 410,000 rare books, 270,000 general collection books, and 1.3 million photographs, prints, and ephemera.
The Huntington Digital Library, representing only a fraction of our holdings, is a new online tool to aid in the dissemination of these rich and unique collections. It is designed to support the research needs of Huntington readers and staff, and secondarily, of the broader community. This is not a static site, we are actively adding new content to our online collections. Visit The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens website for more information about the institution. See the About/Copyright page for information on copyright and permission to publish. Researchers should consult our Huntington Library Catalog for comprehensive descriptions of our printed and manuscript holdings.
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