Manuscripts
Remsen D. Bird letters to Henry E. Huntington
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Henry E. Huntington letter to Remsen D. Bird
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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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Frank Partridge letters to Henry E. Huntington
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Also: copies of three letters from Huntington to Partridge, 1925-1927.
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Southern Pacific Company letters to Henry E. Huntington
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Also: statements of income account of Pacific Electric Railway Co., 1924; copies of lists of officers of Southern Pacific Company and of Executive Committee and Board of Directors, 1925-1927; newspaper clipping about Julius Kruttschnitt; page 13 of Wall Street Journal, 1925 June 18 about Kruttschnitt; copy of letter from Huntington to Paul Shoup, 1925 June 22; copy of letter from Southern Pacific Company to Pennsylvania Railroad System, 1925 October 13; copy of letter from Huntington to Southern Pacific Company, 1925 December 7; copy of synopsis of Minutes of Meeting of Executive Committee, 1927 April.
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Charles L. Slattery letter to Henry E. Huntington
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Also: copy of Huntington's reply, 1925 January 29. Subjects: Wellesley College.
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Edward A. Adams letters to Henry E. Huntington
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Also: copy of Huntington letter to Adams, 1925 February 9, statement and reimbursements on Brooklyn properties, copies of Huntington letters to Adams, 1925 February 19 and April 1, copy of Newport News & Mississippi Valley Co. to stockholders, 1925 March 25, copy of Huntington letter to Adams, 1925 April 1, also unsigned proxies, blank affidavit and bond indemnity forms, copy of Adams letter for Huntington to Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 1925 March 30, copy of Huntington letter to Adams, 1925 April 8, and receipt from Huntington to Charles E. Graham for books and records, 1924 October 15. Subjects: Henry E. Huntington's income tax, Brooklyn properties, Old Dominion Land Co., Newport News companies, the Stock Exchange, National Telautograph stock, Some on Henry E. Huntington letterhead. 62 pieces.
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Andrew B. Hammond letters to Henry E. Huntington
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Also: copies of letters from Huntington to Hammond, 1923 February 13, 1925 April 28, 1927 April 14; copy of "Proposed Purchase of Additional Hammond Lumber Prf. Stock." Subjects: crime and labor unions in Los Angeles.
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