{"id":162,"date":"2025-02-26T10:09:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T18:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/lasa\/?page_id=162"},"modified":"2025-06-12T10:18:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T17:18:00","slug":"the-huntington","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/lasa\/about\/the-huntington\/","title":{"rendered":"Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West (ICW)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2><a href=\"http:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-237 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/lasa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/476\/2025\/02\/icw-bwlogo-small-web.webp\" alt=\"Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West logo\" width=\"208\" height=\"159\" \/>LASA is offered by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West (ICW), a center for scholarly investigation of the history and culture of California and the American West. Through sponsorship of innovative scholarship and research, ICW draws on the resources of the University of Southern California and the Huntington Library to build an innovative collaboration between a research university and a research library. We invite you to visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\">website<\/a> to see our latest news and recorded programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2 class=\"r\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huntington.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>LASA frequently meets at The Huntington, a private, nonprofit institution founded in 1919 by Henry E. Huntington, an exceptional businessman who built a financial empire that included railroad companies, utilities, and real estate holdings in Southern California.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-236\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/lasa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/476\/2025\/02\/Huntington-BW-300x211.webp\" alt=\"Building with sign that says The Huntington\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/lasa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/476\/2025\/02\/Huntington-BW-300x211.webp 300w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/lasa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/476\/2025\/02\/Huntington-BW.webp 330w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Huntington was also a man of vision \u2013 with a special interest in books, art, and gardens. During his lifetime, he amassed the core of one of the finest research libraries in the world, established a splendid art collection, and created an array of botanical gardens with plants from a geographic range spanning the globe.<\/p>\n<p>These three distinct facets of The Huntington \u2013its gardens, art galleries, and library\u2013 are linked by a devotion to research, education, and beauty. Of note is The Huntington\u2019s astonishing library: its collection of rare books and manuscripts in the fields of British and American history and literature is nothing short of extraordinary. For qualified scholars, The Huntington is one of the largest and most complete research libraries in the United States in its fields of specialization. For the general public, the Library has on display some of the finest rare books and manuscripts of Anglo-American civilization. Altogether, there are about 6 million items.<\/p>\n<p>The Huntington also is among the nation\u2019s most important centers for the study of the American West, with an unsurpassed collection of materials that span the full range of American western settlement, including the overland pioneer experience, the Gold Rush, and the development of Southern California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":422,"parent":160,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-162","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West (ICW) - The Los Angeles Service Academy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/lasa\/about\/the-huntington\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West (ICW) - 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