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Thomas #Gainsborough, born #OTD in 1727, kept a certain element "The Blue Boy" secret for more than 200 years. This li'l pup, first revealed in a 1994 X-ray, is what's hidden beneath the painted rocks in the lower right-hand corner of the portrait. #SecretsMW #ProjectBlueBoy
#OTD in 1869, the eastbound and westbound railroad tracks met at Utah's Promontory Summit, marking the completion of the #TranscontinentalRailroad. This engraving was created from a photograph that captured the historic moment. https://t.co/XoGikH8ukb #Transcontinental150
Adding these gorgeous #California native #wildflower blooms by Elizabeth Hallowell (1905) to the #ArchivesInBloom party!
Happy #MayDay! Best known for illustrating children's books, #KateGreenaway used watercolors to create this idyllic "May Day" scene, employing a muted rosy green color scheme to evoke a sense of nostalgia. 💐 https://t.co/VBEBj2kD71
Happy birthday to John James #Audubon, born #OTD in 1785. His most famous work, "The Birds of America," consists of 435 hand-colored, life-size prints; and includes images of several birds that are now extinct, like the great auk and the passenger pigeon. https://t.co/xOKpHhpA9j
"While celebrating the beauty of the Indian landscape, these images also allude, however indirectly, to the violence that lies at the heart of empire building." Head to Verso for more about "Prospects of India," on view now in the #HuntingtonArtGallery. https://t.co/feW5ylajEX
There's still time to #ColorOurCollections! Download, color, and tag with #ColorTheH for a chance to be featured in our feed: https://t.co/LmPJOsjvbv
Also: Pinkie found her doppelgänger! https://t.co/umwyvhyrTf #Rodarte
One of the few female landscape architects in the early 20th-century, Beatrix Farrand was also one of the most successful, creating designs for institutions like @Yale, @Occidental, @Princeton, and you guessed it - The Huntington. More on Verso: https://t.co/SKV1RRZjCd
Happy #NationalSunglassesDay from our #histsci collections! If you're experimenting with amplified sunlight today (like Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier), be sure to protect your peepers. https://t.co/WhWMC4oofQ