Manuscripts

B.V. Collins (firm) letter to Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey

Description: Subjects: marble setters strike.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1910 March 28
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.; Gift of Charles Apfelbaum, April 1981.; gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, Collis H. Holladay, Jr., November 1981.; Gift of Southern California Transit District, December 1981.; gift of Alta California, January 1982.

Henry E. Huntington letters to Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey

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Subjects: Huntington residence.

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Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: memo about payment of architects' fees; report showing expenditures on residence of Howard Huntington, 1907 September 3; papers, blueprints, and photographs related to construction of Huntington residence; copy of letter from Pacific Electric Co. to Huntington, 1908 September 29; certificate of E.O. Nay Co. re: plumbing installation 1910 May 4. Note: five architectural drawings were removed from this folder and placed in the Huntington Institutional Archives in June 1998.

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Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey letter to Hughes Manufacturing Co

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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Pacific Electric Railway Company letters to Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey

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Enclosed in: letter from Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey to Huntington, 1908 October 2. Also: memo by J. McMillan to Huntington, 1908 September 28.

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Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey letter to Richards-Neustadt Construction Co

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Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey letter to Cass-Smurr-Damarel Co

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B.V. Collins (firm) letter to Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey

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