Manuscripts

Pacific Electric Railway Company

Description: Contains pay and regulations schedule for trainmen, cost estimates for various lines, reports, time-tables, valuation map, and material about the San Gabriel Valley Rapid Transit Railroad, San Pedro line, and the Whittier Division.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1904-1946
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.; Gift of Charles Apfelbaum, April 1981.; gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, Collis H. Holladay, Jr., November 1981.

Pacific Electric Railway Company letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: copy of receipt issued to A.A. Biard, 1903 February 26; list of employees, 1904 February 1; five photographs showing Pacific Electric Building in construction, and memos on progress of plastering and construction work on building; copy of letter from G.W. Mulks to Isaias W. Hellman 1905 March 15 and from Hellman to Mulks, 1905 June 24; statement showing cost of various lines built or acquired by Pacific Electric Railway Company and Los Angeles Inter-Urban Railway Co., 1907 June 30; two equipment reports; sketch of area at 4th and Brand, Los Angeles. Subjects: Whittier line, railroad bonds.

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Contains account, agreements, contracts, certificates for issues of bonds, circulars, advertisements, financials, and history.

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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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Contains Interstate Commerce Commission material (1919), labor organization and strike material, and maps.

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Contains miscellaneous documents, monthly reports, and patents.

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