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


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    Huntington Land & Improvement Company letters to Henry E. Huntington

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    Enclosures: 1903 September 9 letter had cost sheets of lands acquired for Pacific Electric Railway Co., from Los Angeles Land Co., and copies of correspondence between Henry E. Huntington and C.A. Henderson, 1902 August-September; 1905 March 2 letter had letter from John Earle Jarding to George S. Patton, 1905 March 1. Also: blueprint map showing lands acquired for Right-of-Way for the Pacific Electric Railway Co.; copies of letters from Huntington to Huntington Land & Improvement Co., 1904 May 20, May 21; copies of letters from Huntington to E.G. Wood, 1904 May 12, 25; letter from Huntington to E.W. Boehme, 1905 October 10; copy of letter from Huntington to Patton, 1905 January 24 and envelope advertising Huntington properties in Alhambra, California; letter from Huntington Land & Improvement Co. to Patton, 1906 October 27; copies of letters from Huntington to Patton, 1905 October 31, 1906 November 13; letters from Patton to Huntington, 1906 October 30, November 8; statements of lots sold from Huntington Land & Improvement Co. to Patton, 1906-1908; statement of disbursements for Howard Huntington house from August 1906 to June 1907. Subjects: California and Santa Monica real estate, Pasadena Country Club, Oak Grove Improvement Co., San Marino land development.

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    Huntington Land and Improvement Company

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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, and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. Series 2. Henry E. Huntington and his family 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. Also included are the blueprints for the Huntington's San Marino residence. Series 3. Correspondence contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning 1794 to 1970. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.

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    Huntington Land & Improvement Company letters to George S. Patton

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    Enclosed in: 1905 February 9 letter was in letter from Pacific Electric Land Co. to Huntington, 1905 February 10; statement of 1907 March 23 was in letter from Patton to Huntington, 1907 March 23; statement of 1907 September 28 was in letter from Patton to Huntington, 1907 October 3. Also: 13 statements of lots sold, 1906-1907. Subjects: California real estate.

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    Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

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    41 items. Also: memorandum of Special Tickets issued and note, 1892-1893; mem re: cost of Telegraph Avenue electric line, 1893 June 1; telegram from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1893 June 28. Subjects: Olympic Club bonds, Huntington-Hopkins Co., railroad labor problems, San Francisco street railways, Pacific Mail Steamship Co., California Gold Book (call number: 1466), Oakland Railway, Epes Randolph, Pacific Improvement Co., Union Pacific coal rates, Market Street Railway Co., North America Navigation Co., Panama Railroad.

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    Pacific Electric Railway Company letters to Henry E. Huntington

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    Also: copy of receipt issued to A.A. Biard, 1903 February 26; list of employees, 1904 February 1; five photographs showing Pacific Electric Building in construction, and memos on progress of plastering and construction work on building; copy of letter from G.W. Mulks to Isaias W. Hellman 1905 March 15 and from Hellman to Mulks, 1905 June 24; statement showing cost of various lines built or acquired by Pacific Electric Railway Company and Los Angeles Inter-Urban Railway Co., 1907 June 30; two equipment reports; sketch of area at 4th and Brand, Los Angeles. Subjects: Whittier line, railroad bonds.

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    Pacific Electric Land Company letters to Henry E. Huntington

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    Also: copy of letter from Huntington to George S. Patton, 1904 April 26; report on lots on Tennessee Street deeded from Los Angeles Land Co.; letter from Huntington Land and Improvement Co. to Pacific Electric Land Co., 1905 February 9.

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