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Experience the art of Harriet Hosmer, Miki Hayakawa, Mabel Alvarez, Helen Lundeberg, and Cecilia Beaux, all on view now in the American art galleries. Check out our Instagram Story to learn more about each artist: https://t.co/CDPQumbWtX
#5WomenArtists #WomensHistoryMonth
Happy birthday to #WilliamMorris, born #OTD in 1834. An artist who helped spark the 19th-century Arts and Crafts movement, the designs produced by Morris still inspire today. Many of @kehindewileyart's portraits utilize similar patterns, like those in his rendition of "Blue Boy."
Huge news from the world of polar exploration!❄️🚢 Our Library holds Ernest #Shackleton's "Aurora Australis," a rare and remarkable book printed in Antarctica and bound with pieces of wooden crates that held the expedition's supplies. Ours is known as the "Bottled Fruit" edition. https://t.co/wn8eZrSfOt
Exactly 178 years ago, "A Christmas Carol," by Charles Dickens was published today 🎁 📕
📸 : Charles #Dickens, "A Christmas Carol" (1881) illustration by John Leech.
We thought you might need a fairy to give you some extra movie magic🧚 🦋 @AcademyMuseum #MuseumGiftSwap
📷: Richard Doyle, “The Fairy Queen Takes an Airy Drive in a Light Carriage, a Twelve-in-hand, drawn by Thoroughbred Butterflies” from In Fairy Land by William Allingham,1870
"One of the things I love about looking at these old photos is it feels like a lot has changed, but at the same time, it hasn't. The key things like the roof and the red gates...our main focal points that you still see.”
—Fanny Situ
#ChinatownLA
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Have you seen #MadeInLA2020 yet? We’re loving these details captured #atTheH. 👁 https://t.co/xxPoPzW8fQ
Robert #Hooke's "Micrographia" (1665) was the first work to depict microscopic specimens, and includes his famous illustration of a flea. Hooke praised the "beauty" of this creature, with its "suit of sable Armour" and "sharp pinns...like Porcupine’s Quills." 🦔🔬 #ArchivesBugs
How does coral relate to feminism? At 7 pm (EST) tomorrow, join Michele Navakas, a 2017 Huntington fellow, for a virtual program on 19th-century U.S. women who used the process of coral formation to illustrate how to build a better polity. RSVP: https://t.co/E6fN7btVE1