With LOOK>>, we venture into our wide-ranging collections and bring out a single object to explore in a short video. In this installment, we look at a late 19th-century parlor game. What follows is a Q&A with David Mihaly, The Huntington’s Jay T. Last Curator of Graphic Arts and Social … Continue reading
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LOOK>> A Printed Fan
With LOOK>>, we venture into our wide-ranging collections and bring out a single object to explore in a short video. In this piece, we look at an 18th-century printed fan. Printed fans had become popular fashion accessories in Europe by the late 18th century, being used for everything from keeping … Continue reading
LOOK>> An Ant Plant
With LOOK>>, we venture into our wide-ranging collections and bring out a single object to explore in a short video. For this installment, we look at a Hydnophytum specimen, one of the ant plants in our tropical collections. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have … Continue reading
LOOK>> A Historiscope
With LOOK>>, we venture into our wide-ranging collections and bring out a single object to explore in a short video. This time around, we look at Milton Bradley & Company’s Historiscope, ca. 1870. While we often think of Milton Bradley as the toy company that produced such classics as The … Continue reading
LOOK>> A Myriorama
With LOOK>>, we venture into our wide-ranging collections and bring out a single object to explore in a short video. Up first is Samuel Leigh and John Heaviside Clark’s Myriorama from 1824. In the early 1820s, a popular new toy came on the market—the myriorama—whose name was derived from the … Continue reading