Manuscripts

California - Plans for railroad equipment

Description: Subjects: Pacific Electric Railway Co., Los Angeles Railway Co., Pullman Company, St. Louis Car Company.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1900-1904
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.

Blueprints

Manuscripts

The blueprints range from standard prints to materials removed from volumes of varying condition, and facsimiles. This subseries contains the plans for Huntington's San Marino residence, which includes the blueprints of each level of the house. The blueprints show the involvement of architects Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey. The private residence plans detail the construction of the Shorb residence by architect Fred R. Dorn and details each level of the house. The plans for the railroad equipment reveal the capital resources employed by the Pacific Electric Railway Co., Los Angeles Railway Co., Pullman Company, and St. Louis Car Company. Finally, the plans for the Pacific Electric building include ephemera, specifically letters from the Los Angeles Railway Company to Huntington, dated 1903, and the infrastructural activity of the Pacific Light and Power Corporation, Pacific Electric Railway Co., and the Los Angeles and Redondo Railway Company.

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Plans for Pacific Electric building

Manuscripts

Also: letters from Los Angeles Railway Company to Henry E. Huntington, 1903; pencil sketch. Subjects: Myron Hunt, Huntington building, 12th and Main Streets, Los Angeles, Pacific Light and Power Corporation, Pacific Electric Railway Co., Los Angeles and Redondo Railway Company, M. Paul Martin.

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Henry E. Huntington letter to The Railroad Gazette

Manuscripts

Subjects: Los Angeles Pacific Railway Co., Pacific Electric Railway Co., real estate in California.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to C.W. Smith

Manuscripts

Subjects: William H. Holabird, Los Angeles & Pasadena Electric Railway Co., Pacific Electric Railway Co.

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Henry E. Huntington letter to J.R. Atchison

Manuscripts

Subjects: Los Angeles Railway Co., Pacific Electric Railway Co.

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Howard Huntington letters to Charles E. Graham

Manuscripts

Subjects: Los Angeles Railway Co., Pacific Electric Railway Co.

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California - Plans for railroad equipment

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