Manuscripts

Elizabeth Stoddard Huntington letter to Phoebe Huntington Pardee

Description: Also: copy of letter and copies of two clippings re: Collis P. Huntington from Oneonta Herald, 1870 and 1871.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1853 January 1
Call number: mssHEH
Creator: Huntington, Henry Edwards (1850-1927)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edwin L. Lewis, November 1939.; Gift of Louise Ward Watkins, July 1946.; Gift of Collis Holladay, April 1967.; Gift of Mrs. Collis H. Holladay, 1977-1981.; Gift of Clifford Henry, May 1978.; Gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, 1978-1992.

Mary Jane Stoddard Emmons letter to Phoebe Huntington Pardee

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Copied from original in possession of Mary Elizabeth Pardee Lewis, in 1929. Also: handwritten copy of letter. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington and Elizabeth Vincent Huntington.

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Elizabeth Stoddard Huntington letter to Elizabeth Vincent Huntington and Phoebe Huntington Pardee

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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 (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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Henry E. Huntington letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay

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Also: note by Arabella Huntington; notes re: family estate; newspaper clipping re: re-organization of the California Institute Associates for the development of the California Institute of Technology. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's death, Henry E. Huntington becoming 1st VP of Southern Pacific Co., Chateau Beauregard, Oneonta, New York property gift, Henry E. Huntington's health, Caltech.

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Phoebe Huntington Pardee letters to Harriet Huntington

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Thomas H. Hubbard

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Also: memo re: cost of removal of old track on San Pablo Avenue and conversion to electric power, 1897 October 6; copies of notes to Collis P. Huntington from Henry E. Huntington; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1897 October 30; statement of receipts and disbursements of East Oakland Railroad Co., 1897 January-September and press copy; copy of letter from Frank S. Douty to Henry E. Huntington, 1898 October 12. Subjects: Oakland railways, Mrs. Stanford, Market Street Railway stock, I.W. Hellman, Oakland waterfront property, Southern Pacific Co.

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Sylvester H. Kneeland letters to Collis P. Huntington

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Also: several demand notes for payments; copy of telegram from Bache to Kneeland, 1900 March 9; newspaper clipping re: notice of sale of Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City Railroad, 1900 March 9; copies of telegrams from Collis P. Huntington to Kneeland, 1900 March 16, 19. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate.

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Elizabeth Stoddard Huntington letter to Phoebe Huntington Pardee

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