Manuscripts

Los Angeles Land Company lease with Los Angeles Railway Company

Description: Enclosed in: letter from Los Angeles Railway Company to Henry E. Huntington, 1907 February 20. Also: copy of lease, blueprint maps.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1904 November 15
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.

Los Angeles Railway Company letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Enclosure: 1902 June 12 letter had copy of letter from C.A. Henderson to J.D. Bicknell, 1902 June 12. Also: Estimate of Cost of Construction, single track railway…between South Pasadena and Monrovia, 1901 June 17; newspaper clipping re: sale of railway franchise; map of Central Avenue, 6th, and Easton Street area occupied by the Pacific Electric Railway Co. power house, etc., and blueprint showing property of George W. Frink on Central Avenue; unexecuted lease between Los Angeles Land Co. and Los Angeles Railway Company, 1904 November 15; copy of letter from S.M. Kennedy to District Managers of Southern California Edison Co., 1924 June 14; printed article by Willis Owen, "Knocking the Peak Off," 1924; copy of letter from Huntington to William E. Dunn, 1924 July 15. Subjects: California real estate.

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Isaac Edwin Gates letters to Charles H. Tweed

Manuscripts

Enclosed: 1901 December 20 letter was enclosed in letter from Tweed to Henry E. Huntington, 1901 December 20. Also: copy of letter from William Durant, 1902 October 13, and copy of lease of "Post Office lot" in Long Lake, New York, by John McLaughlin to Durant, 1902 September 18; memorandum related to Kentucky Central Trust Fund, and copy of release of Trustees, by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company; appraisals of California properties covered by Charles Huntington, mortgaged 1903 August, September; drafts of deed to Brooklyn property from Walter A. Weber to Arabella D. Huntington and Henry E. Huntington and copies of two letters from Weber related to that property, 1901 July; draft of letter from Executors of Estate of Collis P. Huntington to Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute, 1904 February; letter from Fairfax Harrison to Gates, 1904 April 29, and three internal organizational letters of Southern Railway Co., 1904 March, April; draft of agreement regarding will of Collis P. Huntington, 1907 January 11; copy of letter from J.E. Foulds to Gates, 1907 October 22. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate.

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Los Angeles Railway Land Company

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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Pullman Company letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: specifications for private car for Henry E. Huntington; memo re: finish and refurnishings of private car, 1915 February 20; blueprint showing 16-E-20 of private Pullman car showing structural bolster and platform.

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Southern Pacific Company letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: reports by William H. Holabird, 1898 June 13, June 21; newspaper clipping, 1899 March 26; copy of letter from D.T. Bohmer to G.B., 1900 July 30; copy of letter from W.G. Van Vleck to Collis P. Huntington, 1900 August 7; blueprint of map with extension of Hearns & Brazos Valley Railway; copy of memo from J.A. Muir to William F. Herrin, 1900 September 4; copy of telegram from Henry E. Huntington to Muir, 1900 September 24; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Hugh Neill, 1923 February 26. Subjects: Frank Miller, Bixby Ranch, Central Pacific Railroad, Los Angeles Pacific Railway bonds.

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Southern Pacific Company and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway contract

Manuscripts

Enclosed in: letter from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1900 February 26.

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Los Angeles Land Company lease with Los Angeles Railway Company

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