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National Society of the Colonial Dames of America letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay

Description: Also: printed items; account of Plymouth Memorial Fund and printed announcements of annual meeting.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1919-1944
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.; gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, Collis H. Holladay, Jr., November 1981.; Gift of Southern California Transit District, December 1981.

Los Angeles-First National Trust & Savings Bank letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay

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Enclosure: 1928 November 22 letter had printed copy of Indenture, Estate of Henry E. Huntington Sinking Fund Gold Notes, from Executors of Estate to the Title Insurance & Trust Co., 1928 November 1. Also: copy of list of payments made from Huntington estate, 1928 November 21. Subjects: Henry E. Huntington's estate.

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Gilles Guilbert and Claire Guilbert letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay and Edmund Burke Holladay

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Also: printed postcard showing Lenin's tomb in Red Square, two printed announcements of lecture series by Gilles Guilbert, 1935.

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Collis Huntington Holladay letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay and Edmund B. Holladay

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Also: six printed items re: military service for Harvard students; five photographs including one that might be of Solon Huntington.

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Collis Huntington Holladay letter to Caroline Huntington 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 (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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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay

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Also: copy of claim of Ernest A. Bryant against the estate of Henry E. Huntington, 1927 November 5; note by Edmund Burke Holladay, copy of list of vouchers paid to Bryant, year ending December 31, 1926; inventory of stock of liquor in basement of Huntington residence and appraisement of liquor, 1927 October 28; letters from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher to Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, 1931 July 2, 1933 December 1; copies of petitions from Huntington's estate; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher letter to Collis H. Holladay, copy of Superior Court of California Order Settling 6th Account Current and Report of Trustees of Collis P. Huntington and Howard Huntington Memorial Hospital, 1949 August 2. Subjects: Henry E. Huntington, Collis P. Huntington, and Howard Huntington's estates.

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Caroline Huntington Ord Butt letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay

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National Society of the Colonial Dames of America letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay

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