Manuscripts

Bankers Trust Company letters to Henry E. Huntington

Description: Also: copies of 3 letters from Huntington to Bankers Trust Company.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1922
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.

Central Union Trust Company of New York letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: copies of three letters by Huntington to Central Union Trust Company of New York, 1922-1923.

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Equitable Trust Company of New York letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: copy of Huntington's reply, 1923 January 13; statement from Equitable Trust Company of New York to Huntington, 1920 January 20.

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Henry E. Huntington letter to Bankers Trust 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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Henry E. Huntington letters to Equitable Trust Co. of New York

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Also: two letters from Equitable Trust Co. of New York to Huntington, 1922 July 25, 1923 June 18. Subjects: Chateau Beauregard.

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George E. Miles letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: newspaper clipping about Steel trust, 1901 November 12; copy of telegram from Huntington to Miles, 1903 January 17; deposit slip of Union Trust Co. for deposit to account of Arabella Huntington, 1913 April 3; newspaper clipping about death of Baron Natal, 1915 May 11; copy of letter from Miles to National Historical Society, and printed item. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate.

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Frank Griffith letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: copy of letter from William R. Staats Co. to Huntington Land & Improvement Company, 1913 October 4, and statement of value of unsold lots in Oak Knoll, 1913 October 3, copies of letters from Huntington to Griffith, 1918 January 17, 1919 February 11, 1920 July 30, sales report by Huntington Land & Improvement Company, 1920 June-July, and memo relating to water supply for San Marino and environs. Subjects: Redondo Improvement Co., Huntington Land & Improvement Company, Huntington Hotel.

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Bankers Trust Company letters to Henry E. Huntington

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