Manuscripts

Herbert C. Dorr agreement with Samuel Wood Holladay

Description: Also signed by Edmund Burke Holladay. Also: memo regarding method of payment. Subjects: Dorr Paint Company.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1887 October 19
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.

Dorr Paint Company letter to Edmund Burke Holladay

Manuscripts

Also: agreement with Edmund Burke Holladay, four receipts for payment and two vouchers issued by Dorr Paint Company.

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Abram Currie promissory notes with Samuel Wood Holladay

Manuscripts

Also: waiver of statute of limitations by Currie, 1864 May 9; and memo by Holladay, 1860 February 17.

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Robert C. Slaughter letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay

Manuscripts

Also: memo by Edmund B. Holladay, 1921 July 5. Subjects: Foster Estate, West Virignia.

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Los Angeles Railway Company agreement with Los Angeles Inter-Urban Railway Company

Manuscripts

Signed by Henry E. Huntington and Edmund B. Holladay. Also: typewritten memo about agreement.

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Hibernia Savings and Loan Society receipts for Samuel W. Holladay and Georgiana Ord Holladay

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Also: notice of payment overdue, 1906 December 4, with note by Georgiana Ord Holladay.

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Samuel W. Holladay and others agreements and contracts

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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Herbert C. Dorr agreement with Samuel Wood Holladay

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