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The Huntington is a research and educational center set amidst 120 acres of breathtaking gardens. Three art galleries and a library showcase magnificent collections of paintings, sculptures, rare books, manuscripts, and decorative arts. The botanical collection features over 14,000 different species of plants. A private, nonprofit institution, The Huntington was founded in 1919 by railroad and real estate developer Henry Edwards Huntington and opened to the public in 1928. Highlights of the collection include the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (c.1410), a Gutenberg Bible (c.1455), Thomas Gainsborough's masterpiece The Blue Boy (c. 1770), Sir Thomas Lawrence's Pinkie (1794), Edward Hopper's The Long Leg, Rogier van der Weyden's Madonna and Child (15th century), the spectacular 12-acre desert garden, the serenely beautiful Japanese garden, the camellia gardens, and much more. English tea in the Rose Garden Tea Room is a popular highlight to a day spent enjoying the cultural treasures of The Huntington. text from: www.huntington.org/Information/HEHGeneral.html For more information about the gardens of the Huntington Library in San Marino, California: www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/HEHBotanicalHome.html

The Huntington is a research and educational center set amidst 120 acres of breathtaking gardens. Three art galleries and a library showcase magnificent collections of paintings, sculptures, rare books, manuscripts, and decorative arts. The botanical collection features over 14,000 different species of plants. A private, nonprofit institution, The Huntington was founded in 1919 by railroad and real estate developer Henry Edwards Huntington and opened to the public in 1928. Highlights of the collection include the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (c.1410), a Gutenberg Bible (c.1455), Thomas Gainsborough's masterpiece The Blue Boy (c. 1770), Sir Thomas Lawrence's Pinkie (1794), Edward Hopper's The Long Leg, Rogier van der Weyden's Madonna and Child (15th century), the spectacular 12-acre desert garden, the serenely beautiful Japanese garden, the camellia gardens, and much more. English tea in the Rose Garden Tea Room is a popular highlight to a day spent enjoying the cultural treasures of The Huntington. text from: www.huntington.org/Information/HEHGeneral.html For more information about the gardens of the Huntington Library in San Marino, California: www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/HEHBotanicalHome.html

The Huntington is a research and educational center set amidst 120 acres of breathtaking gardens. Three art galleries and a library showcase magnificent collections of paintings, sculptures, rare books, manuscripts, and decorative arts. The botanical collection features over 14,000 different species of plants. A private, nonprofit institution, The Huntington was founded in 1919 by railroad and real estate developer Henry Edwards Huntington and opened to the public in 1928. Highlights of the collection include the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (c.1410), a Gutenberg Bible (c.1455), Thomas Gainsborough's masterpiece The Blue Boy (c. 1770), Sir Thomas Lawrence's Pinkie (1794), Edward Hopper's The Long Leg, Rogier van der Weyden's Madonna and Child (15th century), the spectacular 12-acre desert garden, the serenely beautiful Japanese garden, the camellia gardens, and much more. English tea in the Rose Garden Tea Room is a popular highlight to a day spent enjoying the cultural treasures of The Huntington. text from: www.huntington.org/Information/HEHGeneral.html For more information about the gardens of the Huntington Library in San Marino, California: www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/HEHBotanicalHome.html

The Huntington is a research and educational center set amidst 120 acres of breathtaking gardens. Three art galleries and a library showcase magnificent collections of paintings, sculptures, rare books, manuscripts, and decorative arts. The botanical collection features over 14,000 different species of plants. A private, nonprofit institution, The Huntington was founded in 1919 by railroad and real estate developer Henry Edwards Huntington and opened to the public in 1928. Highlights of the collection include the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (c.1410), a Gutenberg Bible (c.1455), Thomas Gainsborough's masterpiece The Blue Boy (c. 1770), Sir Thomas Lawrence's Pinkie (1794), Edward Hopper's The Long Leg, Rogier van der Weyden's Madonna and Child (15th century), the spectacular 12-acre desert garden, the serenely beautiful Japanese garden, the camellia gardens, and much more. English tea in the Rose Garden Tea Room is a popular highlight to a day spent enjoying the cultural treasures of The Huntington. text from: www.huntington.org/Information/HEHGeneral.html For more information about the gardens of the Huntington Library in San Marino, California: www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/HEHBotanicalHome.html

The Huntington is a research and educational center set amidst 120 acres of breathtaking gardens. Three art galleries and a library showcase magnificent collections of paintings, sculptures, rare books, manuscripts, and decorative arts. The botanical collection features over 14,000 different species of plants. A private, nonprofit institution, The Huntington was founded in 1919 by railroad and real estate developer Henry Edwards Huntington and opened to the public in 1928. Highlights of the collection include the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (c.1410), a Gutenberg Bible (c.1455), Thomas Gainsborough's masterpiece The Blue Boy (c. 1770), Sir Thomas Lawrence's Pinkie (1794), Edward Hopper's The Long Leg, Rogier van der Weyden's Madonna and Child (15th century), the spectacular 12-acre desert garden, the serenely beautiful Japanese garden, the camellia gardens, and much more. English tea in the Rose Garden Tea Room is a popular highlight to a day spent enjoying the cultural treasures of The Huntington. text from: www.huntington.org/Information/HEHGeneral.html For more information about the gardens of the Huntington Library in San Marino, California: www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/HEHBotanicalHome.html

The Huntington is a research and educational center set amidst 120 acres of breathtaking gardens. Three art galleries and a library showcase magnificent collections of paintings, sculptures, rare books, manuscripts, and decorative arts. The botanical collection features over 14,000 different species of plants. A private, nonprofit institution, The Huntington was founded in 1919 by railroad and real estate developer Henry Edwards Huntington and opened to the public in 1928. Highlights of the collection include the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (c.1410), a Gutenberg Bible (c.1455), Thomas Gainsborough's masterpiece The Blue Boy (c. 1770), Sir Thomas Lawrence's Pinkie (1794), Edward Hopper's The Long Leg, Rogier van der Weyden's Madonna and Child (15th century), the spectacular 12-acre desert garden, the serenely beautiful Japanese garden, the camellia gardens, and much more. English tea in the Rose Garden Tea Room is a popular highlight to a day spent enjoying the cultural treasures of The Huntington. text from: www.huntington.org/Information/HEHGeneral.html For more information about the gardens of the Huntington Library in San Marino, California: www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/HEHBotanicalHome.html

The Huntington is a research and educational center set amidst 120 acres of breathtaking gardens. Three art galleries and a library showcase magnificent collections of paintings, sculptures, rare books, manuscripts, and decorative arts. The botanical collection features over 14,000 different species of plants. A private, nonprofit institution, The Huntington was founded in 1919 by railroad and real estate developer Henry Edwards Huntington and opened to the public in 1928. Highlights of the collection include the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (c.1410), a Gutenberg Bible (c.1455), Thomas Gainsborough's masterpiece The Blue Boy (c. 1770), Sir Thomas Lawrence's Pinkie (1794), Edward Hopper's The Long Leg, Rogier van der Weyden's Madonna and Child (15th century), the spectacular 12-acre desert garden, the serenely beautiful Japanese garden, the camellia gardens, and much more. English tea in the Rose Garden Tea Room is a popular highlight to a day spent enjoying the cultural treasures of The Huntington. text from: www.huntington.org/Information/HEHGeneral.html For more information about the gardens of the Huntington Library in San Marino, California: www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/HEHBotanicalHome.html

If the treasures in the museum and gallery at the Huntington Library were the only things to see, they would be quite sufficient to fill the three and a half hours allowed to visitors each day. However, the beauties of nature displayed in the gardens easily match the aesthetic pleasures experienced inside the building. Each of the gardens, here blended into a whole, will attract its own admirers. Most visitors, however, make for the Japanese garden which, with its red bridge, traditional Japanese five-roomed house, the Ikebana house, traditional Bonsai trees and little Zen Garden, inspires them just to sit and meditate. Other parts of the grounds are: the Herb Garden, the Shakespeare Garden with plants such as existed in the poet's time, the Desert Garden and - in direct contrast - the Jungle Garden, the Rose Garden and two Camellia Gardens, the Palm Garden and the Subtropical Garden and finally, just behind the mausoleum where the Huntingtons lie buried, the Orange Grove. Text from: www.planetware.com/san-marino/huntington-library-huntingt...

One of the famous New York Public Library lions that preside over the Arts & Humanities Library on 42nd Street and 5th Avenue. One lion is named Patience and the other, Fortitude. This photo was taken in March, 2006.

Miner's Institutes and Workmen's Halls were common features in the South Wales Valleys in the industrial era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This hall was built in Oakdale village centre in 1916. The funds for the building were loaned by Tredegar Iron and Coal Company, and were paid back by the miners over the following years. As with many of these Institutes, the hall provided a focal point for the community. text (includng a great panorama) from: www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/panoramics/pages/welshlife_...

The Church of St. Augustine, nowadays known as the town library, was built towards the end of the 15th century by the people of Taormina and is said to have been originally devoted to St. Sebastian who had worked a miracle and saved the city by keeping the plague away. The Augustinian fathers later arrived in Taormina, took over and enlarged the church, turning it into a monastery; it then lost its St. Sebastian title and was named after St. Augustine. The church, with its tie-beam ceiling, has four niches on each side decorated with false Corinthian arches and columns. Originally decorated in late Sicilian Gothic style, the church was radically transformed around the year 1700 when the large ogival arch of the main portal was replaced by an architrave in Taormina stone. All that remains of the originai facade is a small rosette and the top of the ogival arch of the old portal. text from: www.gate2taormina.com/taormina_en.htm

The Church of St. Augustine, nowadays known as the town library, was built towards the end of the 15th century by the people of Taormina and is said to have been originally devoted to St. Sebastian who had worked a miracle and saved the city by keeping the plague away. The Augustinian fathers later arrived in Taormina, took over and enlarged the church, turning it into a monastery; it then lost its St. Sebastian title and was named after St. Augustine. The church, with its tie-beam ceiling, has four niches on each side decorated with false Corinthian arches and columns. Originally decorated in late Sicilian Gothic style, the church was radically transformed around the year 1700 when the large ogival arch of the main portal was replaced by an architrave in Taormina stone. All that remains of the originai facade is a small rosette and the top of the ogival arch of the old portal. text from: www.gate2taormina.com/taormina_en.htm

Princeton University Library One Washington Road Princeton, New Jersey Since its founding more than 240 years ago, the library system at Princeton has grown from a collection of 474 volumes in one room of Nassau Hall to over 11 million holdings in 19 buildings throughout the campus. Firestone Library is the main library, and assumes primary responsibility for the humanities and social sciences. Text (adapted) from: firestone.princeton.edu/

Princeton University Library One Washington Road Princeton, New Jersey Since its founding more than 240 years ago, the library system at Princeton has grown from a collection of 474 volumes in one room of Nassau Hall to over 11 million holdings in 19 buildings throughout the campus. Firestone Library is the main library, and assumes primary responsibility for the humanities and social sciences. Text (adapted) from: firestone.princeton.edu/

Princeton University Library One Washington Road Princeton, New Jersey Since its founding more than 240 years ago, the library system at Princeton has grown from a collection of 474 volumes in one room of Nassau Hall to over 11 million holdings in 19 buildings throughout the campus. Firestone Library is the main library, and assumes primary responsibility for the humanities and social sciences. Text (adapted) from: firestone.princeton.edu/

Historic Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library has served as an intellectual center and cultural treasure for students, faculty, staff and campus visitors since it opened in 1932. Created as a memorial to Edward L. Doheny Jr., a USC trustee and alumnus, this landmark building was USC’s first freestanding library. It houses vast collections of books and journals and also is one of the university’s best loved gathering places, hosting academic and cultural events ranging from lectures, readings and conferences to special exhibits and concerts. Text from: web-app.usc.edu/maps/