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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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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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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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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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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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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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Also: receipt from Southern Pacific Co. to Collis P. Huntington, 1892 December 17; two lists of California Pacific Railroad Co. stockholders for 1892 June 7-December 31; letter from Gates to Huntington, 1893 June 13. Subjects: Olympic Club, Market Street Railway stock, Chesapeake & Ohio bonds, Atlanta & Pacific Railroad, Kentucky Central Railroad, Pacific Improvement Co., Collis P. Huntington's health, William H. Baker.
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