Manuscripts

New York Botanical Garden letter to Arabella Huntington

Description: Also: printed item about botanical garden.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1913 April 26
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.

New York. Department of Parks letter to Arabella Huntington

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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The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

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The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens series documents the founding and history of the institution. The series includes early book lists, invoices, and receipts related to Henry E. Huntington's book purchases from various dealers and sales, as well as auction catalogs, some with handwritten notes that may be by Huntington. It also contains scrapbooks documenting Huntington's art purchases, chiefly from Duveen, dating from 1892 to 1946. Materials related to a 1934 to 1935 tax appeal case by the estate of Henry E. Huntington include court proceedings, appraisals of Huntington's land and company assets, and maps. The series also contains several boxes of photocopied newspaper clippings from 1897 to 1949 about Henry E. Huntington and the creation of The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. These clippings highlight some of Huntington's notable purchases and include material related to Arabella Huntington. Additional materials concern Proposition 15, passed in 1930, which exempted The Huntington from paying California property tax. Miscellaneous materials include documents related to Huntington's head gardener, William Hertrich, as well as scrapbooks, ephemera, and business records.

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Sulgrave Institution letter to Arabella Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: copy of letter from Charles E. Graham to Proudfoot's Commercial Agency, 1924 September 9; four letters from Proudfoot's Commercial Agency to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., 1921-1924; printed item "The George Washington Bi-Centennial Celebration."

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New York. Register of the City of New York deeds of property owned by Arabella Huntington

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California Botanical Garden Committee letter to Henry E. Huntington

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Union Trust Company of New York letter to Arabella Huntington

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Also: receipts of deposits, account statements, 1910-1917. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate.

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New York Botanical Garden letter to Arabella Huntington

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