Manuscripts
John Willis Baer letters to Henry E. Huntington
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Henry E. Huntington letter to John Willis Baer
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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Jos. Garneau Co., Inc. letters to Henry E. Huntington
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Also: copies of replies from Huntington, 1919 February 8, 14. Subjects: wine purchases.
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John W. Ensign letters to Henry E. Huntington
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Also: copies of two letters by Huntington to Ensign, 1923 February 13, 1924 December 4; printed statement from First Huntington National Bank, Huntington, West Virginia, 1925 September 28.
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William B. Coley letters to Henry Edwards Huntington
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Also: copies of Huntington's replies to Coley, 1918, 1920, 1925; urinalysis report for Huntington, 1924 November. Subjects: health of Archer Huntington and Henry E. Huntington; George D. Smith.
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Glenn W. Parks letters to Henry E. Huntington
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Also: copies of Huntington's replies, 1925 February 24, September 28; newspaper clippings about death of Hamilton Parks.
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John J. Klaber letters to Henry E. Huntington
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Also: copies of letters from Huntington to Klaber, 1924 December 29 and 1925 January 13.
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