Manuscripts

Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery clipping scrapbook

Description: Gift of Pasadena Public Library, 1985 December 3.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1927-1950
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.

Henry E. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery

Manuscripts

Note: One letter is a photocopy. Subjects: Sterne bust, Huntington's gift of shares of stock of Hammond Lumber Company for $276,665.90 to the Library.

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Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery letter to Collis P. Huntington

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Also: copy of letter from Clara A.E. Seaton to the library and art gallery, 1950 July 11, and reply, July 17.

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Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery

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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Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art letter to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: certificate of appreciation for gift to museum, 1926 December 21.

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Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery collected by Mr. Culver

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Subjects: Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, Collis P. Huntington, Henry E. Huntington's death, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

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HEH Library and Art Gallery - Book lists

Manuscripts

Includes: Brentanos, September 1901; Lincoln collection; HE Huntington contents of cases, 1919 December; correspondence of Mr. and Mrs. James T. Fields; Bibles (including parts) and Book of Common Prayer in the HEH Library after 1640; short list of rare and interesting book and manuscript quotes to HEH, November 1923; HE Huntington Library No. 3 (Morschhauser).

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Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery clipping scrapbook

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