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San Francisco. Office of the Park Commissioners letter to Samuel W. Holladay


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    San Francisco. Office of the Park Commissioners letters to Edmund B. Holladay

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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, 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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    Hibernia Savings and Loan Society receipts for Samuel W. Holladay and Georgiana Ord Holladay

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    Also: notice of payment overdue, 1906 December 4, with note by Georgiana Ord Holladay.

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    A.J. Bryant letter to Samuel Wood Holladay

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    Also: note by Holladay on envelope.

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    Samuel W. Holladay letter to Chris Alpers

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    Laid in printed pamphlet "Open letter of S.W. Holladay…with a Statement of True Money principles," 1898 August. Also: pencil memo notes laid in second copy of pamphlet.

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    Overland Monthly postcard to Samuel W. Holladay

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    Also: three memos re: article in Overland Monthly on the Bear Flag Revolt, and 1895 May issue with article by John Bidwell as recorded by Edmund B. Holladay.

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    Georgiana Ord Holladay letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay and Edmund B. Holladay

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    Also: note by Edmund B. Holladay, 1906 April 20; four letters from Collis Huntington Holladay; two letters from Helen Holladay Ord.

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