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Huntington Library, Art Gallery, Botanical Gardens calendar
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The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Manuscripts
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens series deals with the founding and history of The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. This series contains early book lists and bills (invoices, receipts) documenting Henry Huntington's book purchases from a variety of dealers and sales. It also includes auction catalogs, some of them with handwritten notes, perhaps by Huntington, as well as scrapbooks documenting Huntington's purchases of art (chiefly from Duveen), from 1892 to 1946. There are also documents related to a tax appeal case by the estate of Henry E. Huntington in 1934 and 1935. This includes court proceedings, appraisals of Huntington's assets, both land and companies, and maps. It also contains several boxes of photocopies of newspaper clippings from 1897 to 1949 regarding Henry E. Huntington and the creation of The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. The newspaper clippings highlight some of Huntington's noteworthy purchases. There are also clippings dealing with Arabella Huntington. The series also contains material dealing with Proposition 15, which passed in 1930. The bill gave The Huntington a tax exemption from paying property tax. There is also miscellaneous material including documents related to Huntington's head gardener William Hertrich, scrapbooks, ephemera, and business records.
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Los Angeles County. San Marino. Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanical Gardens
Visual Materials
photCL 400 volume 2 & volume 3
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Huntington Library and Art Gallery
Manuscripts
The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Henry E. Huntington. There is material related to the Huntington, Holladay, and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. Series 2. Henry E. Huntington and his family includes biographical information, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, ephemera, and physical objects. There is material related to the Huntington Land and Improvement Company, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, and the Pacific Electric Railway Company as well as other businesses in Los Angeles County, Orange County, and San Gabriel Valley, California. This material includes business records, account books, annual reports, correspondence, maps, tracts, balance sheets, and others. There is also material related to the founding of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens including auction catalogs, invoices, receipts, and bills for art and rare books, and information regarding a lawsuit about Huntington's estate tax after his death, and the passing of Proposition 15, in 1930, which exempted The Huntington from paying California property tax. There is also material related to Collis P. Huntington and his business interests and Arabella Huntington. Also included are the blueprints for the Huntington's San Marino residence. Series 3. Correspondence contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning 1794 to 1970. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.
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