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Los Angeles Railway Company classification and number of employees
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Los Angeles Railway Company letter to William B. Dana Company
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Also: Request from William B. Dana Co. for earnings and expense report for October 1901, 1902, and January 20, 1903.
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Pacific Electric Railway Company classification and number of employees
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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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Los Angeles Consolidated Electric Railway Company agreement with Los Angeles Railway Company
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Also: lists of shareholders signing agreement, and Statement of Interest due to bondholders, 1898 March 16.
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Los Angeles Railway Company letters to Charles E. Graham
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Also: copies of letters from Graham to J.E. Brown, 1923 January 31, June 19, December 10; letter from Huntington Land & Improvement Co. to Graham, 1922 December 29.
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Pacific Electric Railway Company letter to William B. Dana Company
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Also: request from William B. Dana Co. for statement of earnings for 1902 September-December; letter from Epes Randolph to Henry E. Huntington, 1903 January 7; memo to Randolph from Myers.
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Los Angeles Railway Company letters to Henry E. Huntington
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Enclosure: 1902 June 12 letter had copy of letter from C.A. Henderson to J.D. Bicknell, 1902 June 12. Also: Estimate of Cost of Construction, single track railway…between South Pasadena and Monrovia, 1901 June 17; newspaper clipping re: sale of railway franchise; map of Central Avenue, 6th, and Easton Street area occupied by the Pacific Electric Railway Co. power house, etc., and blueprint showing property of George W. Frink on Central Avenue; unexecuted lease between Los Angeles Land Co. and Los Angeles Railway Company, 1904 November 15; copy of letter from S.M. Kennedy to District Managers of Southern California Edison Co., 1924 June 14; printed article by Willis Owen, "Knocking the Peak Off," 1924; copy of letter from Huntington to William E. Dunn, 1924 July 15. Subjects: California real estate.
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