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On my last day as the Dibner Conservator for the History of Science collection at The Huntington, I want to share one of the more interesting and complex conservation treatments I've completed here

African-American Art at The HuntingtonThe Huntington continues to fill in gaps in its collecting areas, most recently by homing in on works by African-American artists.

What happens when you try to recreate panoramic photos taken on The Huntington's property a hundred years ago? Earlier this year, award-winning Los Angeles photographer John C. Lewis spent a few days on the grounds to find out.

Members and visitors may typically think of The Huntington as a glorious place to visit in the spring with the puya in bloom in the Desert Garden, the wisteria gracing the Japanese Garden, and the roses rioting a few acres away in the Rose Garden.

There's more to the corpse flower than its giant bloomBehind the scenes at The Huntington, in a quiet greenhouse tucked away from public view, something big is brewing. 

The eccentric beauty of the plant kingdom will be celebrated in a traveling exhibition of contemporary botanical illustrations running June 13–Aug. 23, 2015 (Saturdays and Sundays only), at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.

It's not every day that a long-lost work of art appears out of nowhere. But that's what happened in the summer of 2013 when Tooey Durning placed a call to The Huntington. Tooey and her sister, Anne Durning, had inherited a painting from their grandmother.

A hundred years ago today, on May 7, 1915, a German U-boat sank the British ocean liner RMS "Lusitania." Of the 1,962 passengers and crew on board, more than 1,100 lost their lives, including 128 Americans.