Whist playing set belonging to Henry E. Huntington
Description
Small box made to look like a two miniature book set. One spine reads "Chip in and Out," the other "Whist ye Not." Side is monogrammed "H.E.H." One side holds a set of playing cards, the other four rows of multi-colored chips.
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.
Restrictions
Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
NOT AVAILABLE: Boxes 67-69, 74: Audio materials are not available for paging until reformatted. Please contact Reader Services for more information.
RESTRICTED: Box 541: Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Rights
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Tin box: "Lipton's Tea: The Most Delicious the World Produces," on lid. With letter to Emma Quigley, Henry E. Huntington's secretary, about the lunchbox, dated 1940 May 23; unidentified author.
Also: twenty-four share certificates of South Side Improvement Co. of Kentucky, 1888-1893, and list of shareholders; affidavit by Henry E. Huntington about purchase of interest of Charles L. Brown in the South Side Improvement Co., 1900. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate.
Also: memo re: Huntington purchases of paintings (Gainsborough and Romney); list of Huntington pictures remaining at Duveen Brothers; various invoices and shipping notices; list of recipients of the Huntington Catalogue of English Pictures, and memo by Huntington; copy of letter from Huntington to Los Angeles Times, 1925 August 17; list of velvet sent to Huntington. Subjects: Huntington's account, Washington paintings by Stuart, Rembrandt Peale, and C. W. Peale; Birley's portraits of Huntington and Arabella Huntington; bust Mater Dolorosa, miniature collection of Collis P. Huntington, Gould miniatures, Romney portrait of Lady Hamilton, and Roger Van der Weyden's "Virgin and Child."
28 items. Also: copy of Statement of Earnings of the East Side Railway Co. (Oregon), 1893 March-August; copy of memo re: capitalization of San Francisco Consolidated street railways. Subjects: funds for Henry E. Huntington house, staff problems and reduction, Eugene Clapp, W.F. Rudolph, Oakland horse car line, Pacific Mail Steamship Co., Anglo Bank, John C. McClure.
