Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
7 items. Includes reprint by George R. Watson, 1927.
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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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Manuscripts
48 items. Also: letter from T.H. Callaghan to Collis P. Huntington, 1894 January 8; letter from George E. Miles to Alice Allen, 1894 May 7, with Southern Pacific Co. pass for 1894; letter from Martha A. Brown to Collis P. Huntington, 1894 May 7; letter from Salome Wahlbeck to Collis P. Huntington, 1894 May 16. Subjects: stock sales, Port of Los Angeles, Southern Pacific Co. offices, Edward N. Grant, Arabella Huntington's lost jewelry, San Pedro, Epes Randolph, Market Street Railway stock.
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Manuscripts
47 items. Also: renewal notice cards from Imperial Insurance Co. & Insurance Co. of North America, 1894 June 7. Subjects: California politics, Market Street Railway stock, Oakland, California, Epes Randolph, Huntington-Hopkins Co., Nevada bank accounts, Adolph Sutro.
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Manuscripts
7 items.
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Manuscripts
49 items. Also: newspaper clipping related to railroad strike in California, 1894 July 7; clipping from letter of Yarrington, note from D.O. Mills, and newspaper clipping relating to Nevada politics. Subjects: railroad strike, Santa Monica and San Pedro ports, Market Street Railway bonds, Huntington-Hopkins Co., Epes Randolph.
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