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From our photo archives: a round-up of awesome women in action.
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Harry Wenger, photograph of live variety stage show “Hi-Yaller”, produced by Fanchon and Marco and known as an “Idea,” approximately 1928-06. Fanchon and Marco Collection. The...

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From our photo archives: a round-up of awesome women in action.

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Harry Wenger, photograph of live variety stage show “Hi-Yaller”, produced by Fanchon and Marco and known as an “Idea,” approximately 1928-06. Fanchon and Marco Collection. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.

Santa Monica Lancerettes jumping horses, 1934, film negative. Powell Press Service Photography. Ernest Marquez Collection.

Plant operations, Solar Aircraft, 1943, film negative. Dick Whittington Studio Collection of Negatives and Photographs, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.

Charles C. Pierce, Yokut Indian woman weaving a basket, Tule River Indian Reservation (Calif.), black and white photographic print. C.C. Pierce Collection of Photographs, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.

Roger Cornell’s Athletic Club women jumping hurdles on the beach, Santa Monica, after 1927, film negative. Ernest Marquez Collection. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

Female aviator Marvel Crosson, 1929, film negative. Crosson poses painting a number “1” on the side of an airplane. National Exchange Club was the sponsor of her last race in 1929, which began in Santa Monica, California, and the number “1” was on the side of the airplane she flew. Ernest Marquez Collection, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.

“In 2016, The Huntington launched /five, a five-year contemporary arts initiative focused on creative collaboration. The plan? Each year, a different arts or cultural organization is selected to bring in artists to create works in response to The...

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In 2016, The Huntington launched /five, a five-year contemporary arts initiative focused on creative collaboration. The plan? Each year, a different arts or cultural organization is selected to bring in artists to create works in response to The Huntington’s library, art, and botanical collections in new and unforeseen ways.
The inaugural year brought JPL/NASA’s Orbit Pavilion here. In 2017, we chose the Los Angeles–based Women’s Center for Creative Work (WCCW) to explore the theme of collecting and collections. WCCW is a nonprofit organization that cultivates feminist creative communities and practices.

Today, The Huntington announces the seven WCCW-selected artists who will be conducting research in our collections and producing original work in response. The artists working in the Library collections are Jheanelle Garriques and kerrie welsh (now Kiki Loveday). Working in the Art collections are Soyoung Shin and Juliana Wisdom. And working in the Botanical collections are Olivia Chumacero, Sarita Dougherty, and Zya S. Levy. (Artist photos above are in the order listed here.)

Head to VERSO for bios of all the artists in “Women Making Art”.

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It’s International Women’s Day. Today on VERSO, we look at #5WomenArtists in our American art collections.

image: detail of Harriet Goodhue Hosmer’s Zenobia in Chains, 1859, marble. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. On view in the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art.

#LibraryShelfieDay!!Pictured here are shelves where the papers of Elizabeth Robinson Montagu are stored. Montagu (1718–1800) was a British writer, critic, businesswoman, bluestocking, social reformer, and salonnière.

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#LibraryShelfieDay!!

Pictured here are shelves where the papers of Elizabeth Robinson Montagu are stored. Montagu (1718–1800) was a British writer, critic, businesswoman, bluestocking, social reformer, and salonnière.

“The opening decades of the 20th century saw the blossoming of new ideas about astronomy, new uses for computing, and new opportunities for women. The word “computer” did not always refer to the massive mainframes of yesterday or the feather-light...

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The opening decades of the 20th century saw the blossoming of new ideas about astronomy, new uses for computing, and new opportunities for women. The word “computer” did not always refer to the massive mainframes of yesterday or the feather-light tablets of today. Rather, computers were human beings who performed scientific computations.

On VERSO, read about Mount Wilson Observatory’s “human computers”—most of whom were women.

image: A selection of women’s application letters for computer positions among the papers of American astronomer Frederick Hanley Seares (1873–1964), the head of the computing division at the Pasadena office of the Mount Wilson Observatory from 1909 to 1940.

Source: huntingtonblogs.org