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R.W. Partridge letters to Henry E. Huntington
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Henry E. Huntington letter to R.W. Partridge
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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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Henry E. Huntington: lists
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Includes: list of papers in office safe; properties of Henry E. Huntington Library to be sold or retained; list of securities.
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Charles E. Culver letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay
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Also: copy of John B. Miller Syndicate: statement of earnings and expenses, 1917-1929; list of furniture sold from Huntington estate, 1928-1929, and list of furniture to be offered for sale.
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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington
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60 items. Also: copy of letter from E.P. Ripley to Henry E. Huntington, 1899 November 18; table of Oakland Railroad earnings and expenses, 1898-1899; two maps showing location of coal properties; report of dividend paid by Huntington-Hopkins Co. to Collis P. Huntington, Charles W. Miller and W.R.S. Foye; copy of voucher from Southern Pacific Co. to Collis P. Huntington, 1899 November 29. Subjects: Union Colliery Co., San Francisco real estate, Henry E. Huntington's position at Southern Pacific Co., Indian School in Riverside, Pullman Co., telegraphers agreement, Market Street Railway stock, Pacific Improvement Co., Oakland Railway, Washington coal mines.
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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington
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39 items. Also: copy of letter from McMurtrie & Stone Railroad Builders to William Hood, 1899 November 4, and Hood's reply, November 8; statement of earnings and expenses of Torres & Prietas Railroad, 1899; letter from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1899 November 3 and list of insurance policies, 1899 May 27; copy of letter from J.H. Roberts to Henry E. Huntington, 1899 November 8; telegram from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1899 November 21. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's property in Oakland, Southern Pacific Railroad, California bridges, San Francisco real estate, Pullman Co., Central Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, Rio Grande Railroad, Los Angeles Terminal Railway, William H. Holabird.
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Henry E. Huntington letters to W. & J. Sloane & Co
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Enclosed in: 1896 January 7 letter was in letter from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1896 January 7. Also: list of rugs to be delivered to Sloane.
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