Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington
Description
54 items. Also: six memos related to fire insurance policies on Collis P. Huntington's house at 1020 California Street, San Francisco. Subjects: California politics, Huntington-Hopkins Co., San Bernardino narrow gauge railroad, Olympic Club bonds, Southern Pacific Co., Port of Los Angeles, San Francisco post office, Market Street Railway, Pacific Improvement Co., Oakland Railway, San Pedro harbor.
gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, Collis H. Holladay, Jr., November 1981.
Gift of Southern California Transit District, December 1981.
gift of Alta California, January 1982.
Purchased from Frances Russell, March 1982.
Provenance unknown. In library as of January 1986.
gift of Collis H. Holladay, Jr., February 1992.
transferred from Ephemera, September 1992.
Gift of March 2001.
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54 items. Enclosure: 1898 August 15 letter had copy of letter from R.P. Schwerin, 1898 August 10. Subjects: Clara Huntington, Oakland Railway, San Carlos Reservation and coal, San Francisco street railways, Southern Pacific Co., Central Pacific Railroad, Huntington-Hopkins Co., San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley Railroad, Jane Stanford.
54 items. Also: Blueprint showing proposed excavation and windows under music room at 1020 California Street, San Francisco, home of Collis P. Huntington; letter from Panama Railroad Company to R.P. Schiverin, 1896 June 11. Subjects: California politics, Hotel del Monte, Los Angeles Hotel, Huntington-Hopkins Co., Southern Pacific Co., Grove L. Johnson and Hiram Johnson, Oregon Pacific Railroad, railroad employee relations, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., Market Street Railway, Central Pacific Railroad, Colonel Crocker, railroad strikes and amnesty for strikers, Carlton Watkins.
81 items. Also: copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to W.H. Mills, 1893 July 11. Subjects: San Francisco street railways, Huntington-Hopkins Co., railroad strike, Southern Pacific Railroad Co., Oakland Railway, Union Pacific coal rates, Port of Los Angeles, Pacific Mail Steamship Co., California politics, Market Street Railway, Oregon and California Railroad, railroad labor problems, Oakland Waterfront case, John P. Raymond, Oakland-San Francisco ferry.
36 items. Also: specifications for paintings and for laying oak floors in 1020 California Street, San Francisco, Collis P. Huntington's home, 1897 July 7, and estimate. Subjects: San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley Railroad, Santa Monica, Hotel del Monte, Southern Pacific Co., Colonel Crocker's last illness and will, Huntington-Hopkins Co., Henry E. Huntington's work load, coal shipments, Market Street Railway, Pacific Coast Co., Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co.
45 items. Subjects: Huntington-Hopkins Co., Stanford estate, San Francisco street railways, Pacific Improvement Co., Oakland ferries, Southern Pacific Company bonds, Henry E. Huntington's health, Pacific Coast Railway, Union Pacific Railroad, Market Street Railway, Pacific Mail Steamship Co., Crocker estate, Capital Gas Co. stock, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Olympic Club bonds, Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, Newport News Shipbuilding.
44 items. Subjects: Highland Park & Fruitvale Railroad, San Francisco post office, Chinese embargo on rice, San Francisco street railway, Nicaragua canal, Southern Pacific Co., note of Mark McDonald, Huntington-Hopkins Co., California fruit shipments, Santa Monica harbor, Kentucky Central Railroad, California Board of Trade, Market Street Railway stock, J.P. Jones, California politics, Pasadena, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Oakland city council.
