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Pacific-Southwest Trust & Savings Bank letter to Henry E. Huntington
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Isaac Edwin Gates letters to Henry E. Huntington
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Also: letter from James I. Felter to Collis P. Huntington, 1896 March 20; copy of letter from Huntington to Gates, 1897 June 19; list of stockholders of Market Street Railway Co.; and promissory note signed by L.W. Kennedy to Collis P. Huntington, 1897 October 5. Subjects: executive cipher book, Pacific Improvement Co., Morris K. Jesup, Southern Pacific Co., Santa Monica, Colonel Crocker's death, Olympic Club bonds, and Central Pacific Railroad.
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Henry E. Huntington letter to Pacific Southwest Trust & Savings Bank
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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, and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. Series 2. Henry E. Huntington and his family 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. Also included are the blueprints for the Huntington's San Marino residence. Series 3. Correspondence contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning 1794 to 1970. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.
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Southern Pacific Company letters to Henry E. Huntington
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Enclosure: 1895 September 26 letter had copy of report by William H. Holabird to Southern Pacific Company, 1895 September 24; 1895 October 14 letter had Holabird report, 1895 October 12; 1896 January 6 letter had letter from D.A. Chambers to C.J. Wilder, 1895 December 30; 1897 May 6 letter had two reports by Holabird, 1897 May 3, 5. Also: vouchers; copy of letter by Holabird to J.A. Muir, 1896 March 20; seven photographs of San Bernardino Mountain Park area, 1897; report and sketch by Holabird, 1897 June 17. Subjects: Market Street Railway Co.
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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington
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35 items. Also: letter from T.J. Henderson to Collis P. Huntington, 1894 September 25, and copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to Henderson, 1894 October 5; letter from Mrs. C.S. Pierce to Collis P. Huntington, 1894 October 20. Subjects: Gaius Fish, Southern Pacific Company real estate, Market Street Railway stock, Paul F. Brown, San Francisco street railway, Huntington-Hopkins Co., Santa Monica and J.P. Jones, E.E. Session, Highland Park & Fruitvale Railroad, Nicaragua Canal, San Pedro, Senator Frye, San Francisco post office, Pacific Theological Seminary, Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, Pasadena, California.
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Charles H. Tweed letters to Henry E. Huntington
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Enclosure: 1897 December 11 letter had letter from E.C. Wright to Henry E. Huntington, 1897 December 3; 1901 July 30 letter had copy of letter from D.R. Nelson to Tweed, 1901 July 26; 1901 July 31 letter had letter from D.R. Nelson to Tweed, 1901 July 30; 1901 October 29 letter had copy of letter from Thomas H. Hubbard to Tweed, with memos, 1901 October 29; 1901 December 20 letter had letter from Isaac E. Gates to Tweed, 1901 December 20. Also: copy of letter from Trustees of the American Development Co. to the Mexican International Railroad Co., 1897 May 25; memorandum agreement for sale by Executors of estate of Collis P. Huntington to Thomas H. Hubbard, 12,500 shares of the Pacific Improvement Co., 1901 October 1; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Tweed, 1901 December 16. Subjects: Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Lexington machine shop, San Joaquin Valley Railroad Co., Southern Pacific bonds, Central Pacific Railroad, funding bill, Collis P. Huntington's estate.
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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington
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45 items. Also: newspaper clipping "Topics in California," copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to J.W. Ward, 1893 October 31, and copy of letter from Ward to Collis P. Huntington, 1893 October 25. Subjects: Southern Pacific Railroad Co., San Francisco street railways, Oregon railroads, Port of Los Angeles, Pacific Mail Steamship Co., Oakland waterfront case, California politics, Pacific Improvement Co., Leland Stanford estate, Utah railroads.
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