Manuscripts

William Hertrich letter to Caroline Huntington Holladay

Description: Subjects: art in Huntington Art Gallery.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1927 September 10
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.

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

Manuscripts

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

Manuscripts

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

Manuscripts

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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William Hertrich letter to Caroline Huntington Holladay

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