Manuscripts

George W. Martin agreement with Samuel W. Holladay

Description: Also: note by Martin, on verso of list of lands for sale by the Central Pacific Railroad, 1886 September 29.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1886 September 29
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.

James L. Ord letters to Samuel W. Holladay

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Also: Power of Attorney, 1861 September 11.

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Samuel W. Holladay and others agreements and contracts

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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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Samuel W. Holladay agreement with Milo Hoadley

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Caroline O. Dwinelle agreement with Samuel W. Holladay

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Samuel W. Holladay agreement to serve as attorney for A. Georgiana

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Huntington Land & Improvement Company documents, report, and financial papers

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Enclosed in: cost sheets of lands acquired for the Pacific Electric Railway Co....was in letter from Huntington Land & Improvement Company to Huntington, 1903 September 9. Includes: list of Central Avenue property; balance sheets; cost sheets of lands acquired for the Pacific Electric Railway Co. from the Los Angeles Land Co., Huntington Hotel report on operations, 1916; map of San Marino, California, 1927; salaries of officers, 1914.

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George W. Martin agreement with Samuel W. Holladay

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