Manuscripts

Julius Kruttschnitt letter to Hugh Neill

Description: Subjects: Southern Pacific Co.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1923 September 12
Call number: mssHEH
Creator: Huntington, Henry Edwards (1850-1927)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edwin L. Lewis, November 1939.; Gift of Louise Ward Watkins, July 1946.; Gift of Collis Holladay, April 1967.; Gift of Mrs. Collis H. Holladay, 1977-1981.; Gift of Clifford Henry, May 1978.; Gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, 1978-1992.; Gift of Charles Apfelbaum, April 1981.

Collis P. Huntington letters to Julius Kruttschnitt

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Subjects: Southern Pacific Co.

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Julius Kruttschnitt telegram to Collis P. Huntington

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Also: Report of Transportation Department of Southern Pacific Co. for year ending 1899 June 30; four blueprint graphic charts and ten photographs of railroad bridges. Subjects: California fruit shipments., Southern Pacific Co. operations.

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Julius Kruttschnitt letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: copy of letter from Kruttschnitt to J.C. Stubbs, 1897 May 11; copies of letters from American Railway Association to T.W. Gregory, 1917 November 27, and to Bentley W. Warren, 1917 November 22; letter from T.W. Gregory to Fairfax Harrison, 1917 November 27; statement by Harrison, 1917 December 9. Subjects: John Conness, railroad ties, Southern Pacific Co., San Francisco to Los Angeles railroad, railway in war emergency.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Julius Kruttschnitt

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Enclosure: 1898 August 16 letter had letter from Weber Railway Joint Manufacturing Co. to Collis P. Huntington, 1898 June 22. Also: Note from Kruttsschnitt to Henry E. Huntington. Subjects: Crocker and Stanford, Central Pacific Railroad (see Volume 34, page 42 in Black scrapbook.

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Julius Kruttschnitt letter to Holmes Cummins

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Subjects: W.S. Gibbs case.

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B.A. Worthington letter to Julius Kruttschnitt

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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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Julius Kruttschnitt letter to Hugh Neill

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