The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, known as The Huntington, is a collections-based educational and research institution established by
Henry E. Huntington and
Arabella Huntington in
San Marino, California, United States. In addition to the library, the institution houses an extensive art collection with a focus on 18th and 19th century
European art and 17th to mid-20th century
American art. The property also has approximately of specialized botanical landscaped gardens, including the "Japanese Garden", the "Desert Garden", and the "Chinese Garden".
History

As a landowner,
Henry Edwards Huntington (1850–1927) played a major role in the growth of
Southern California
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. Huntington was born in 1850, in
Oneonta, New York, and was the nephew and heir of
Collis P. Huntington (1821–1900), one of the famous
"Big Four" railroad tycoons of nineteenth century
California history. In 1892, Huntington relocated to
San Francisco
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with his first wife, Mary Alice Prentice, and their four children. In 1902, he relocated from the financial and political center of
Northern California
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,
San Francisco
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, to the state's newer southern major metropolis,
Los Angeles
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. In 1903, he purchased the 600-acre "San Marino Ranch" from James DeBarth Shorb Jr (1870–1907) for $240,000. He later purchased other large tracts of land in the
Pasadena and
Los Angeles
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areas of
Los Angeles County for urban and suburban development. He divorced Mary Alice Prentice in 1906. He was one of the founders of the City of San Marino which was incorporated on April 25, 1913. On July 16, 1913, he married his uncle's widow, Arabella Huntington (1851–1924). As president of the
Pacific Electric Railway Company, the regional
streetcar
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and
public transit system for the Los Angeles metropolitan area and southern California and also of the
Los Angeles Railway Company, (later the
Southern California Railway), he spearheaded urban and regional transportation efforts to link together far-flung communities, supporting growth of those communities as well as promoting commerce, recreation and tourism.
Huntington's interest in art was influenced in large part by Arabella, and with art experts to guide him, he benefited from a post-
World War I
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European market that was "ready to sell almost anything". Before his death in 1927, Huntington amassed "far and away the greatest group of
eighteenth-century British portraits ever assembled by any one man". In accordance with Huntington's will, the collection, then worth $50 million, was opened to the public in 1928.
On October 17, 1985, a fire erupted in an elevator shaft of the Huntington Art Gallery and destroyed
Sir Joshua Reynolds's 1777 portrait of
Mrs. Edwin Lascelles. After a year-long, $1 million refurbishing project, the Huntington Gallery reopened in 1986, with its artworks cleaned of soot and stains. Most of the funds for the cleanup and refurbishing of the
Georgian mansion and its artworks came from donations from the Michael J. Connell Foundation, corporations and individuals. Both the Federal art-supporting establishment of the
National Endowment for the Arts and the
National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by thNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965(), dedicated to supporting research, education, preserv ...
gave emergency grants, the former of $17,500 to "support conservation and other related costs resulting from a serious fire at the Gallery of Art", and the latter of $30,000 to "support the restoration of several fire-damaged works of art that depict the story of Western culture."
On September 5, 2019, The Huntington kicked off a year-long celebration of its centennial year with exhibitions, special programs, initiatives, a special Huntington 100th rose, and a float in the 2020
Rose Parade in nearby
Pasadena, California
Pasadena ( ) is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, northeast of downtown Los Angeles. It is the most populous city and the primary cultural center of the San Gabriel Valley. Old Pasadena is the city's original commerci ...
.
Management
The executive leaders of The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens are:
* President:
Karen R. Lawrence
* Chief Financial Officer: Janet Alberti
* Chief Human Resources Officer: Misty Bennett
* Director of the Library: Sandra Brooke Gordon
* Director of the Botanical Gardens: Nicole Cavender
* Director of the Art Museum: Christina Nielsen
* Vice Presidents and other executive leaders: Heather Hart, Susan Juster, Thomas Polansky, Randy Shulman
With an endowment of more than $700 million (and half a billion dollars raised between 2001 and 2013), the Huntington is among the wealthiest cultural institutions in the United States. It has undertaken major restorations and construction including a $60 million education and visitors center opened in 2015. In 2022 The Huntington received 1,014,000 visitors and had 54,000 member households. It hosted 1,360 readers and 131 scholars to conduct research within the collections and served 15,994 students through programs, classes, and site visits.
Library

The library building was designed in 1920 by the southern California architect
Myron Hunt in the
Mediterranean Revival style. Hunt's previous commissions for Mr. and Mrs. Huntington included the Huntington's residence in San Marino in 1909, and the
Huntington Hotel in 1914. The library contains a substantial collection of rare books and manuscripts, concentrated in the fields of British and American history, literature, art, and the history of science. Spanning from the 11th century to the present, the library's holdings contain 7 million manuscript items, over 400,000 rare books, and over a million photographs, prints, and other
ephemera. Highlights include one of eleven
vellum
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copies of the
Gutenberg Bible
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known to exist, the
Ellesmere manuscript of
Chaucer (ca. 1410), and letters and manuscripts by
George Washington
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,
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (, 1743July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the primary author of the United States Declaration of Indepe ...
,
Benjamin Franklin
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, and
Abraham Lincoln
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.
It is the only library in the world with the first two
quartos of ''
Hamlet''; it holds the manuscript of
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and Political philosophy, political philosopher.#britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Wood, 2021 Among the m ...
's
autobiography
An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life, providing a personal narrative that reflects on the author's experiences, memories, and insights. This genre allows individuals to share thei ...
,
Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton () was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author. Newton was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment that followed ...
's personal copy of his ''
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica'' with annotations in Newton's own hand, the first seven drafts of
Henry David Thoreau's ''
Walden'',
John James Audubon's ''
Birds of America'', and first editions and manuscripts from authors such as
Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowski ( ; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, ; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German Americans, German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambien ...
,
Jack London,
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 Old Style and New Style dates, O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early ...
,
William Blake,
Mark Twain
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, and
William Wordsworth
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.
[Huntington Library ''In Fact'', 2012–2013]
The library's main exhibition hall showcases some of the most outstanding rare books and manuscripts in the collection, while the West Hall of the library hosts rotating exhibitions. The Dibner Hall of the History of Science is a permanent exhibition on the history of science with a focus on astronomy, natural history, medicine, and light.
With the 2006 acquisition of the
Burndy Library, a collection of nearly 60,000 items, the Huntington became one of the top institutions in the world for the study of the
history of science and technology.
On December 14, 2022, the library announced they had acquired the archive of American author
Thomas Pynchon.
Research
Researchers over age 18 may use the Library's reading rooms to consult the collection upon establishing a research need that requires the use of The Huntington's collections, identifying specific materials, and presenting the required form(s) of identification at orientation. Through a rigorous peer-review program, the institution awards approximately 150 grants to scholars in the fields of history, literature, art, and the history of science, medicine, and technology. The Huntington also hosts numerous scholarly events, lectures, conferences, and workshops.
In September 1991, then-director William A. Moffett announced that the library's photographic archive of the
Dead Sea Scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls, also called the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of List of Hebrew Bible manuscripts, ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period (516 BCE – 70 CE). They were discovered over a period of ten years, between ...
would be available to all qualified scholars, not just those approved by the international team of editors that had so long limited access to a chosen few. The collection consists of 3,000 photographs of all the original scrolls.
Through a partnership with the
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in ...
, the library has established two research centers: the
USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute and the
Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.
Art collections
The Huntington's collections are displayed in permanent installations housed in the Huntington Art Gallery and Virginia Steele Scott Gallery of American Art. Special temporary exhibitions are mounted in the MaryLou and George Boone Gallery, with smaller, focused exhibitions displayed in the Works on Paper Room in the Huntington Art Gallery and the Susan and Stephen Chandler Wing of the Scott Galleries. In addition the gallery also hosts different exhibitions of photography throughout the year including those about different social and political subjects.
European art

The European collection, consisting largely of 18th- and 19th-century British & French paintings, sculptures and decorative arts, is housed in The Huntington Art Gallery, the original Huntington residence. The permanent installation also includes selections from the Arabella D. Huntington Memorial Art Collection, which contains
Italian and
Northern Renaissance
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paintings and a spectacular collection of 18th-century French
tapestries, porcelain, and furniture. Some of the best known works in the European collection include ''
The Blue Boy'' by
Thomas Gainsborough, ''
Pinkie'' by
Thomas Lawrence, and ''
Madonna and Child'' by
Rogier van der Weyden
Rogier van der Weyden (; 1399 or 140018 June 1464), initially known as Roger de le Pasture (), was an Early Netherlandish painting, early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces, and commis ...
.
American art
Complementing the European collections is the Huntington's American art holdings, a collection of paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and photographs dating from the 17th to the mid-20th century. The institution did not begin collecting American art until 1979, when it received a gift of 50 paintings from the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation. Consequently, The Virginia Steele Scott Gallery of American Art was established in 1984. In 2009, the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries were expanded, refurbished, and reinstalled. The new showcase, a $1.6 million project designed to give the Huntington's growing American art collection more space and visibility, combines the original, 1984 American gallery with the Lois and Robert F. Erburu Gallery, a modern classical addition designed by Los Angeles architect
Frederick Fisher.
Highlights among the American art collections include ''Breakfast in Bed'' by
Mary Cassatt, ''The Long Leg'' by
Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American realism painter and printmaker. He is one of America's most renowned artists and known for his skill in depicting modern American life and landscapes.
Born in Nyack, New York, to a ...
, ''Small Crushed Campbell's Soup Can (Beef Noodle)'' by
Andy Warhol, and ''Global Loft (Spread)'' by
Robert Rauschenberg. As of 2014, the collection numbers some 12,000 works, ninety percent of them drawings, photographs and prints.
In 2014, the library acquired the
Millard Sheets mural ''Southern California landscape'' (1934), the dining room wall painting originally painted for homeowners Fred H. and Bessie Ranke in the
Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles.
Acquisitions
In 1999, the Huntington acquired the collection of materials relating to Arts and Crafts artist and designer
William Morris amassed by Sanford and Helen Berger, comprising stained glass, wallpaper, textiles, embroidery, drawings, ceramics, more than 2,000 books, original
woodblock prints, and the complete archives of Morris's decorative arts firm
Morris & Co. and its predecessor
Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. These materials formed the foundation for the 2002 exhibit "William Morris: Creating the Useful and the Beautiful".
In 2005, actor
Steve Martin gave $1 million to the Huntington to support exhibitions and acquisitions of American art, with three-quarters of the money to be spent on exhibitions and the rest on purchases of artworks. In 2009,
Andy Warhol's painting ''Small Crushed Campbell's Soup Can (Beef Noodle)'' (1962) as well as group of the artist's ''Brillo Boxes'' were donated by the estate of Robert Shapazian, the founding director of
Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills. In 2011, a $1.75 million acquisition fund for post-1945 American art was established by unidentified patrons in honor of the late Shapazian. The first purchase from the fund was the painting ''Global Loft (Spread)'' (1979) by
Robert Rauschenberg.
In 2012, the museum acquired its first major work by an African-American artist when it purchased a 22-foot-long carved redwood panel from 1937 by sculptor
Sargent Claude Johnson.
In October 2023, the museum unveiled a 320-year-old, Japanese home once owned by a ''shōya'' (village head). From 2018 to 2023, craftspeople carefully disassembled the house, labeled, cleaned, and repaired each part, reassembled the house in a Japanese warehouse, refitted the house to US building codes, disassembled it again, and reassembled it in California. Curator Robert Hori likened the whole process to building a "giant model airplane."
Botanical gardens

The Huntington's
botanical garden
A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botanic'' and ''botanical'' and ''garden'' or ''gardens'' are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word ''botanic'' is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens. is ...
s cover and showcase plants from around the world. Huntington worked to make them thrive in the generous California climate. Today his many projects of horticulture live on, providing opportunities for botanical research and for enjoyment. The gardens are divided into more than a dozen themes, including the Australian Garden, Camellia Collection, Children's Garden,
Desert Garden, Herb Garden,
Japanese Garden
are traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial ornamentation, and highlight the natural landscape. Plants and worn, aged materials are generally used by Japanese garden desig ...
, Lily Ponds, North Vista, Palm Garden,
Rose Garden, the
Shakespeare Garden, Subtropical and Jungle Garden, and the
Chinese Garden (Liu Fang Yuan 流芳園 or the Garden of Flowing Fragrance).
The Rose Hills Foundation Conservatory for Botanical Science has a large tropical plant collection, as well as a
carnivorous plants wing. The Huntington has a program to protect and propagate endangered plant species. In 1999, 2002, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, specimens of ''
Amorphophallus titanum'', or the odiferous "corpse flower", bloomed at the facility. There were a total of fourteen corpse flowers bloomed at Huntington since 1999. Three flowers opened in July 2021.

The Camellia Collection, recognized as an International Camellia Garden of Excellence, includes nearly eighty different
camellia species and some 1,200 cultivated varieties, many of them rare and historic. The Rose Garden contains approximately 1,200
cultivars (4,000 individual plants) arranged historically to trace the development of roses from ancient to modern times.
Chinese Garden

A
Chinese garden, the largest outside of China,
was dedicated on February 26, 2008, after artisans from
Suzhou, China spent some six months at Huntington to construct the first phase of the newest facility. On at the northwest corner of the Huntington, the garden features man-made lakes ("Pond of Reflected Greenery" and "Lake of Reflected Fragrance") with pavilions connected by bridges. Unique Chinese names are assigned to many of the facilities in the garden, such as the
tea house, known as the "Hall of the Jade Camellia". Other pavilions are the "Love for the Lotus Pavilion", "Terrace of the Jade Mirror", and "Pavilion of the Three Friends". The initial phase cost $18.3 million to build.
The second phase, which includes the "Clear and Transcendent Pavilion", "Lingering Clouds Peak" with a waterfall, Waveless Boat, "Crossing through Fragrance" bridge and the "Cloud Steps" bridge, opened on March 8, 2014. There were other pavilions, including the "Flowery Brush Studio", and structures completed under phase two. A place to display its large collections of
penjing and
bonsai has completed.
Desert Garden

The
Desert Garden, one of the world's largest and oldest outdoor collections of
cacti and other
succulents, contains plants from extreme environments, many of which were acquired by Henry E. Huntington and William Hertrich (the garden curator). One of the Huntington's most botanically important gardens, the Desert Garden brings together a plant group largely unknown and unappreciated in the beginning of the 1900s. Containing a broad category of
xerophytes (
aridity-adapted plants), the
Desert
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Garden grew to preeminence and remains today among the world's finest, with more than 5,000 species.
Japanese Garden

In 1911, art dealer
George Turner Marsh (who also created the
Japanese Tea Garden at the
Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park is an urban park between the Richmond District, San Francisco, Richmond and Sunset District, San Francisco, Sunset districts on the West Side (San Francisco), West Side of San Francisco, California, United States. It is the Lis ...
) sold his commercial Japanese tea garden to Henry E. Huntington to create the foundations of what is known today as the Japanese Garden. The garden was completed in 1912 and opened to the public in 1928. According to historian Kendall Brown, the garden consists of three gardens: the original stroll garden with
koi-filled ponds and a
drum or moon bridge, the raked-gravel dry garden added in 1968, and the traditionally landscaped tea garden.
In addition, the gardens feature a large bell, the authentic ceremonial teahouse Seifu-an (the Arbor of Pure Breeze), a fully furnished Japanese house, the Zen Garden, and the bonsai collections with hundreds of trees. The Bonsai Courts at the Huntington is the home of the Golden State
Bonsai Federation Southern Collection. Another ancient Japanese art form can be found at the Harry Hirao
Suiseki Court, where visitors can touch the suiseki or viewing stones.
Other gardens
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Australia
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n Garden
*
Camellia Garden
* Children's Garden
* Conservatory
*
Herb Garden
*
Jungle Garden
*
Lily Ponds
*
Palm Garden
*
Ranch
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Garden
*
Rose
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Garden
*
Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...
Garden
*
Subtropical
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Garden
In popular culture
The Huntington Botanical Gardens were honored with a postal stamp as a part of the American Gardens stamps on May 13, 2020. The Desert Garden was featured.
The gardens are frequently used as a filming location. Footage shot there has been included in:
* ''
Mame'' (1974)
* "
Only Yesterday" (music video) – Carpenters (1975)
* ''
Midway'' (1976)
* ''
Justice (Star Trek: The Next Generation)'' (1987)
* ''
Heathers'' (1988)
* "
Ordinary World" (music video) –
Duran Duran
Duran Duran () are an English pop rock band formed in Birmingham in 1978 by singer Stephen Duffy, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist/bassist John Taylor (bass guitarist), John Taylor. After several early changes, the band's line-up settled ...
(1993)
* ''
Indecent Proposal'' (1993)
* ''
Beverly Hills Ninja'' (1997)
* ''
JAG'' (1997), used as the White House rose garden
* ''
The Wedding Singer'' (1998)
* ''
Mystery Men'' (1999)
* ''
Charlie's Angels'' (2000)
* ''
The Wedding Planner'' (2001)
* ''
The Hot Chick'' (2002)
* ''
S1m0ne'' (2002)
* ''
Anger Management'' (2003)
* ''
The West Wing'' (2003), used as the National Arboretum
* ''
Intolerable Cruelty'' (2003)
* ''
Starsky & Hutch'' (2004)
* ''
Monster-in-Law'' (2005)
* ''
Memoirs of a Geisha'' (2005)
* ''
Serenity'' (2005)
* ''Ned's Declassified Field Trip'', the final episode of ''
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide'' (2007)
* ''
National Treasure: Book of Secrets'' (2007), used as the White House rose garden
* ''
CSI Miami'', in ''
You May Now Kill the Bride'' (2008)
* ''
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra'' (2009), used during the flashback fighting scenes between ten-year-old Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow.
* "A Beautiful End" (music video) –
J.R. Richards (2009)
* ''
The Muppets'' (2011)
* ''
Bridesmaids'' (2011), the driveway to Helen's bridal shower
* ''
Parks and Recreation'', used as Five Mile Grounds, the new Eagleton park, in the episode "Pawnee Commons" (2012)
* ''
The Good Place'', as the afterlife's fictional setting (2016–2020)
"
Garden Song" by singer-songwriter
Phoebe Bridgers mentions the Huntington by name.
Gallery
File:Huntington Lib Flowers.jpg, Colorful flowers
File:Jungle garden.JPG, Jungle Garden
File:Herb Garden, Spring Blooms, Huntington.jpg, Spring bloom in the Herb Garden
File:huntington_library_japanese_gong.jpg, Japanese Garden bell
File:Huntington SW05.jpg, Classical Garden Pavilion
File:Huntington SW06.jpg, Fountain on the Great Lawn
File:Blooming roses at Huntington Library in Pasadena, California. April 2022 20220418 160140.jpg, Blooming Roses in April 2022
File:Huntington SW07.jpg, Neo-Classical garden sculpture
File:Cactus in Huntington Library Botanical Garden, California.jpg, Succulent plants in the Desert Garden
File:Rose Garden at Huntington Library in Pasadena, California. April 2022 20220418 160351.jpg, Rose Garden in bloom, April 2022
File:Rose at Huntington Library garden.JPG, Rose
A rose is either a woody perennial plant, perennial flowering plant of the genus ''Rosa'' (), in the family Rosaceae (), or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred Rose species, species and Garden roses, tens of thousands of cultivar ...
File:Huntington Library Gardens Wisteria arbor, 2009.jpg, Wisteria
''Wisteria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae (Leguminosae). The genus includes four species of woody twining vines that are native to China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, southern Canada, the Eastern United States, and nor ...
arbor, April 2009
File:Water lily 1.jpg, Water lily
File:Snapdragons at Huntington Library garden.JPG, Snapdragons
File:Ficus auriculata leaves.jpg.jpg, ''Ficus auriculata'' leaves[A Californian's Guide to the Trees Among Us, Matt Ritter, 2011, Heyday, Berkeley, CA, ]
File:Agathis_robusta_at_the_Huntington_Library_Rose_Garden_in_San_Marino_California.jpg, ''Agathis robusta'' in the Rose Garden
See also
*
List of botanical gardens in the United States
*
The Constance Perkins House, donated to the Library in 1991
*
List of museums in California
References
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