Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
[A collection of the minor writings of Edward H. Blakeney]
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Henry E. Huntington. There is material related to the Huntington, Holladay (Henry E. Huntington's sister Caroline married Edmund Burke Holladay), and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. There is a series about Henry E. Huntington and his family that 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. The largest series contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning approximately 1790 to 1950. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.
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Manuscripts
Enclosed in: letter from Tweed to Huntington, 1902 August 6. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate, Southern Pacific Company.
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Rare Books
This collection consists of 36 scrapbooks containing photographs, newspaper clippings, periodical articles, and ephemera concerning British soldier and author T.E. Lawrence. Most of the albums were compiled in the 1960s, and many of the items discuss Lawrence retrospectively, concern individuals or places associated with Lawrence, or relate to works about Lawrence (such as the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia). The scrapbooks form part of the Edwards H. Metcalf Library Collection of T.E. Lawrence and were compiled chiefly by California Lawrence collectors Theodora Duncan, Frank C. Baxter, and Margaret M. Herbring, and later incorporated into Metcalf's collection. Among the subjects represented in the albums are Lawrence's involvement in the Arab Revolt from 1916 to 1918; Lawrence's life (primarily documented in photographs and postcards of locales in England where Lawrence lived); the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia; Lawrence's fatal motorcycle accident in 1935; art depicting or memorializing Lawrence; and works by and about Lawrence published after his death. Materials consist chiefly of newspaper and periodical clippings, photographs (both originals and reproductions from museum collections), postcards, advertisements, leaflets, ephemera, research notes, and some brief correspondence primarily related to the research efforts of the scrapbook compilers. The albums do not contain manuscript material by Lawrence and most of the items date from the 1950s onward. Notably, though, there are some original photographs by men who served with Lawrence during the Arab Revolt. The collection includes 100 photographs taken by Thomas W. Beaumont, a gunner in the Hejaz Armoured Car Company, and friends from 1915 to 1918 during the Arab Revolt (Scrapbook 1); a 1923 snapshot of Lawrence as a private in the Royal Tank Corps (Album 2.12); and some original photographs of Imperial Camel Corps members including George Sewell, Laurence Moore, and C. H. N. Ashlin, and their activities in the Arab world, 1917-1918 (Scrapbook 7). There is also a 1967 letter from British historian Arnold Toynbee to Duncan discussing Vietnam and communism (Scrapbook 2.4). In addition to the scrapbooks focused on Lawrence, there is a volume with clippings about Winston Churchill (Scrapbook 8) and an album with photographs from the T.E. Lawrence Symposium held at Pepperdine University on May 20-21, 1988 (Scrapbook 15). Most of the scrapbooks retain volume numbers presumably applied by Huntington Library catalogers working for Metcalf (though Scrapbooks 9, 13, 14, 15 were unlabeled and numbers were supplied by the cataloger), and many album pages have the labels "Anal." with analytical numbers that corresponded to the index-card filing system. The volumes are physically comprised of a miscellaneous assortment of photograph albums, three-ring binders, and scrapbook volumes. Based on bookplates, correspondence within the albums, and appearance, the provenance can be identified as: Scrapbooks from the Theodora Duncan collection: 1, 2.1-15, 4.1-4.3, 7-10 Scrapbooks from the Margaret M. Herbring collection (with notes compiled by San Francisco teacher and Lawrence collector Ken Ball): 5.1-5.3, 13, 14 Scrapbooks from the Frank C. Baxter collection: 6.1-6.5 Scrapbooks of unknown origins: 11-12 (appear to be part of the same set) Scrapbook from Edwards H. Metcalf: 15 Scrapbook 3 is missing. A photocopy of an index card located in the Papers of T.E. Lawrence collection (mssTEL) indicates there was a Scrapbook 3 compiled by Thomas Hatton with "clippings relating to T.E. Lawrence's accident and death," but the location of this volume is unknown as of 2014.
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Henry E. Huntington. There is material related to the Huntington, Holladay (Henry E. Huntington's sister Caroline married Edmund Burke Holladay), and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. There is a series about Henry E. Huntington and his family that 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. The largest series contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning approximately 1790 to 1950. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.
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