Manuscripts

J.E. Brown letter to Henry E. Huntington

Description: Subjects: Los Angeles Railway, George Davis Hapgood's account.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1922 August 11
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.

W.H. Brown letter to Henry E. Huntington

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Subjects: Los Angeles Railway.

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J.E. Brown letter to Charles E. Graham

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Subjects: Los Angeles Railway, Howard Huntington's death.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to J.E. Brown

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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 Mrs. J.E. Brown

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C.A. Henderson letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: statements of earnings, University Line of Los Angeles Railway Co, 1904 May-June, account payable, 1904 June 9; copies of telegram and letter from Huntington to Henderson, 1905 March 11; copy of letter from Isaias W. Hellman to Henderson, 1905 March 16; receipt for delivery of 3740 shares of stock of Los Angeles Railway Co.; and information brief on Los Angeles Railway Co. Subjects: Pacific Electric Railway Co., Los Angeles Land Co., Los Angeles and Pasadena Electric Railway, and Los Angeles Railway Co.

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J.E. Foulds letter to Caroline Huntington Holladay

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Subjects: Los Angeles Railway Co.

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J.E. Brown letter to Henry E. Huntington

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