Manuscripts

Panama-Pacific International Exposition letters to Henry E. Huntington

Description: Also: copy of letter "To the Commissioners from Foreign Nations & from the States & Territories of the U.S. to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1914-1915
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.

PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION

Manuscripts

Collection consists mainly of correspondence from the period 1910-14, beginning when Oddie initiated his campaign for governor and ending when he was about to terminate his administration. The correspondence is arranged in 19 boxes in alphabetical order by author. There are also 6 boxes and 4 rolls of Nevada State papers, almost entirely copies of legislative bills for the year 1873, and a small number of documents from other years. Subjects include: mining, politics, and government in Nevada (including divorce laws), women's rights, the financial panic of 1907, the Progressive party, and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915.

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Panama Taiheiyō Bankoku Daihakurankai. Dai 1 = The Panama Pacific International Exposition

Rare Books

Published in anticipation of the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal. Gives plans and aims of the Exposition as well as discussing the history of the Panama Canal and United States-Japan trade relations and the history of Japanese migrants to the United States. Extensive advertisements of Japanese businesses and directory of Japanese residents in California are also included.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

Manuscripts

33 items. Also: copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Frank M. Stone, 1895 January 10 and Stone's reply, 1895 January 23. Subjects: railroad commissioners, Southern Pacific Co. right of way, Port of Los Angeles, Collis P. Huntington's health and house in San Francisco, California politics, Adolph Sutro, note of Mark McDonald, Huntington-Hopkins Co., San Francisco Street railways, Phoenix Bridge Co., income tax on railroads.

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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

36 items. Also: Printed article on oil as locomotive fuel in Southern California; translation (from French) of method of laying wood pavement. Subjects: railroad strike of 1894, San Francisco Street railway, Huntington-Hopkins Co., Southern Pacific Co., James Bailey, iron ore in California, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Market Street Railway, railroad commissioners, Santa Monica.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

Manuscripts

39 items. Also: four copies of schedule of insurance covering paintings in home of Collis P. Huntington in San Francisco; memo; copy of "Report from William H. Holabird, 1899 July 12; copy of letter from ---- Garland to Henry E. Huntington, 1899 July 7; vouchers for payments from Southern Pacific Co., 1899 August 31. Subjects: Market Street Railway stocks, W.H. Kountz, Crocker estate, coal fields in Mexico, Central Pacific Railroad, Paris Exposition.

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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

48 items. Note: receipt dated 1893 March is in the handwriting of Henry E. Huntington. Also: draft of telegram from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1893 March 2; copy of telegram from G.L. King to Henry E. Huntington, 1893 March 2; copies of letters from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1893 February 15, March 6, April 18; copy of Report of Earnings of the Arizona & New Mexico Railroad, 1892; copy of letter from J. Kennedy Tod to Collis P. Huntington, 1893 March 29, and Huntington's reply, April 7; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to J.C. Stubbs, 1893 April 24. Subjects: Oregon Pacific Railroad, Oakland Railway, San Francisco Street railways, John P. Raymond, Huntington-Hopkins Co., Santa Monica, Southern Pacific Co., Panama and Cape Horn freight rates, San Pedro, Market Street Railway, Lewis Tasheira.

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Panama-Pacific International Exposition letters to Henry E. Huntington

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