Also: report of taxes paid in California by the Central Pacific Railroad Co., 1863-1895, enclosed in Henry E. Huntington letter to Collis P. Huntington, 1896 May 11. Subjects: railway brake beams.
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.
Purchased from Frances Russell, March 1982.
Provenance unknown. In library as of January 1986.
gift of Collis H. Holladay, Jr., February 1992.
transferred from Ephemera, September 1992.
Gift of March 2001.
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Enclosed in: B.A. Worthington to Henry E. Huntington, 1895 September 24; Curtis to Henry E. Huntington, 1895 September 6; Collis P. Huntington to N.W. Griswold, 1896 January 9. Also: two reports re: car mileage on Southern Pacific systems, 1894-1895.
Enclosures: 1892 July 29 letter had letter from Collis P. Huntington to F.S. Douty, 1892 July 29; 1895 February 5 letter had letter from Mahl to the National Hollow Brake Beam Co., 1895 February 4; 1896 March letter had copy of letter from Mahl to Douty, 1896 March 5 and letter from Douty to Mahl, 1896 March 11; 1897 January 21 letter had copy of letter from Mahl to Charles A. Dean, 1897 January 21; 1897 February 23 letter had copy of letter from Mahl to Charles F. Crocker, 1897 February 24; 1897 December 28 letter had copy of letter from Mahl to E.C. Wright, 1897 December 28; 1898 March 15 letter had copy of Report on Operations of the Central Pacific Railroad Co. for 12 months ending December 31, 1897. Also: copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Mahl, 1892 July 21; printed circular showing Sterlingworth rolled steel brake beam; several newspaper clippings re: use of electricity on railroad lines; copy of letter from Mahl to Crocker, 1897 January 30; Report on Operations of Southern Pacific Coast Railway, 1892-1896; copy of letter from Mahl to Wright, 1897 December 18; Southern Pacific Co. Lines condensed Statement...for 5 months ending November 30, 1897; copy of letter from Mahl to Douty, 1898 March 12; account of T.J. Wilson for Right-of-way purchases for Southern California Motor Road, 1898 June 18; copy of Report on Operations of the Central Pacific Railroad Co. for 12 months ending December 31, 1897. Subjects: coal interests in Vancouver, Pacific Improvement Co., coal for Central Pacific Railroad, Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Houston & Texas Central Railroad, Collis P. Huntington properties.
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.
