Manuscripts

Caroline Huntington Holladay telegrams to Bradley W. Foster

Description: Also: proposed deed to property in West Virginia, estate of Mary Huntington Foster; notes by Edmund B. Holladay, 1921, June 25.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1921
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.

Bradley W. Foster letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay

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Also: deed, 1920 June 17. Subjects: Foster estate in West Virginia and Huntington Land Company.

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Robert C. Slaughter letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay

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

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Caroline Huntington Holladay telegrams to Robert C. Slaughter

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Subjects: Foster estate, West Virginia.

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Caroline Huntington Holladay telegram to Francis W. Wakefield

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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 (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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Margaret Holladay letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay

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Also: two letters from Collis Huntington Holladay to Caroline Huntington Holladay and Edmund B. Holladay.

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Edmund B. Holladay letter to Bradley W. Foster

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Caroline Huntington Holladay telegrams to Bradley W. Foster

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