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Huntington Library, built in 1920; its main reading room now is an exhibition hall. As a landowner, Henry Edwards Huntington (1850–1927) played a major role in the growth of Southern California . Huntington was born in 1850, in Oneonta, New York , and was the nephew and heir of Collis P. Huntington (1821–1900), one of the famous "Big Four ...
The atlas is held at the Huntington Library based in San Marino, California, USA. ... The maps depicted in the atlas are inverted compared to modern depictions, ...
The library was officially founded in 1892 by Collis P. Huntington, [1] a Southern Pacific Railroad magnate whose summer home was in nearby Throggs Neck, Bronx.Its origins, however, were in the will of Peter C. Van Schaick, a local philanthropist, who set aside funds from his estate to build a free reading room to be donated to the village of West Chester, (now the Bronx) upon its completion.
The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens' 1911 tea room reopens Wednesday in San Marino after a three-year closure. (Christine House / Los Angeles Times)
The Huntington's library contains 8 million manuscripts, 440,000 rare books, 454,000 reference books, 900,000 prints and ephemera, 777,000 photographs, and 300,000 digital files. [50] The Huntington's art collections are housed in his large Neoclassical – Palladian mansion and feature European and American art spanning more than 500 years.
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Copy held by the National Library of Australia. The Dieppe Maps known to have existed into modern times include the following [1] [2] [3] Jean Mallard, Map of the World c.1540, British Library, London [4] Jean Rotz, Boke of Idrography, 1542. British Library, London [5] Guillaume Brouscon, world chart, 1543, Huntington Library, Los Angeles ...
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