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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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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Visual Materials
Hotel Yorke, 103 East 2nd Street, at the corner with Main Street is at an early stage of wrecking. Next door, the top story of the brick three story Weil Building is already gone. Two different companies doing the demolition.
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Visual Materials
A view of the library showing furniture and tapestries from the 18th century. The settee and chairs belong to the set of two settees and ten chairs whose upholstery covers were woven at Gobelins Manufactory, Paris, probably under the supervision of Jacques Neilson (1714-1788), after design by François Boucher (1703-1770) and Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1733-1755). The covers were woven circa 1779, and the frames are nineteenth century. On the right is a writing desk (bureau plat), attributed to the Pagoda Master, made circa 1730. On this desk is a sculpture, Diane chasseresse (Diana the Huntress), made by Jean-Antoine Houdon in 1782. Behind the writing desk, in the corner, is a fire screen, L'Amour Vendangeur (Cupid, the Vintager), made at the Beauvais Manufactory after a cartoon following Francois Boucher in 1738 to 1740 or in 1767. On the wall in the background is a tapestry "La Jouese de Flûte (The Flutist)." A fireplace is on the right, and on the mantle is a Mantel clock by Antoine Philibert with porcelain figures by Sèvres made between circa 1800 and 1810. On either side of the clock are a pair of mounted vases, with porcelain by Sèvres, made circa 1770 to 1775. MS note on verso reads "HEH residence as art gallery: large library room." Stamp on verso reads "This print is released as a personal courtesy and is not for publication. All syndicate and publication rights reserved. Eyre Powell Press Service." Appeared in International Photographer, Hollywood, California, in September, 1930.
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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
A view of a street corner in Merced, California, with a two-story brick building at the corner with a post office, the shop of M.D. Wood, grocer, to the right of the post office, and a law office for J.W. Knox on the second floor. There is a group of four boys standing in front of the post office entrance and a deer ornament(?) on the awning over the post office.
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