PROJECT DESCRIPTION

A worldwide flu pandemic. Race riots. Labor strikes. Women’s battle for the vote. The aftermath of the Great War. The transformative events and harsh realities of the year 1919 still reverberate a century later.

"Nineteen Nineteen," published to accompany a centennial exhibition of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, explores the institution and its founding through the lens of this single, tumultuous year. The fully illustrated catalog features works from The Huntington’s vast collections of books, manuscripts, photographs, ephemera, and art, many of them never exhibited or published before.

Highlights include German propaganda posters, labor manifestos, personal mementos from suffrage campaigns, firsthand chronicles of World War I and the papers of T. E. Lawrence (better known as “Lawrence of Arabia”). Artworks by Abraham Walkowitz, John Singer Sargent, Joseph Pennell, Earl Horter, and David Bomberg respond to the unsettling experience of modern life and to a postwar world desperately trying to piece its shards back together.

BOOK INFORMATION

Trim Size: 7.25 x 10

Number of Pages: 260

Binding Method: Case bound, section sewn, round backed

Paper: 150gsm Lawrence; 53 gsm Bulky newsprint; 180 gram Meiji paper

Typefaces: Domaine Text and Display; Prestige Elite; Bau LF

CREDIT INFORMATION

Creative Director: Kimberly Varella

Art Director: Kimberly Varella

Book Designer: Kimberly Varella

Jacket/Cover Designer: Kimberly Varella

Illustrator:

Photographer: John Sullivan; Manuel Flores

Picture Editor:

Production Director: Jean Patterson

Production Coordinator: Lindsey Hansen

Production Artist:

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