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William Hertrich letter to Caroline Huntington Holladay


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    Huntington Land & Improvement Company letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay

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    Also: memo re: iron gates of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery grounds. Subjects: Henry E. Huntington's estate.

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    William Hertrich letter to George E. Hale

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    Also: copy of report by Duveen Brothers Inc. to Henry M. Robinson, related to arrangement of paintings in Art Gallery, 1927 September 9. Subjects: art in Huntington Art Gallery.

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    William Hertrich letter to Thomas J. Kerr

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    Also: letter from Kerr to Hertrich, November 21. Subjects: art in Huntington Art Gallery.

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    William Hertrich statement with reference to the intention of Henry E. Huntington as to the…trusts creating the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery

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    Enclosed in: letter from Charles E. Culver to James O. Wynn, 1931 May 18. Subjects: Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

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    P.W. French & Co. letter to William Hertrich

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    Photocopies, originals in Art Gallery Archives. Also: copy of letter to Hertrich relative to claim of P.W. French & Co. against estate of Henry E. Huntington, 1927 November 4.

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    Collis Huntington Holladay letter to Caroline Huntington Holladay

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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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