Manuscripts

W.H. Goucher letter to Henry E. Huntington

Description: Subjects: real estate in California, Garvey property in San Gabriel Valley.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1903 February 18
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.; Gift of Southern California Transit District, December 1981.

Henry E. Huntington letter to W.H. Carlson

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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Henry E. Huntington letters to William F. Herrin

Manuscripts

Also: letters from Herrin to Huntington, 1901 August 13, 1903 February 9, December 11, 1904 February 16, August 24, 1905 January 18, February 28, March 1; coded version of telegram, 1905 March 4. Subjects: Oakland waterfront case, Collis P. Huntington's estate, Market Street Railway Co., Southern Pacific Co., real estate in California, Pacific Electric Railway Co, Los Angeles Inter-urban Railway Co., Los Angeles Railway Co., San Gabriel Valley Rapid Transit, Los Angeles Land Co.

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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

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56 items. Also: note from George E. Miles; list of Central Pacific stock outstanding in California. Subjects: Southern Pacific Co., Huntington-Hopkins Co., Los Angeles Terminal railway property, Nevada-California-Oregon Railroad, San Francisco real estate, George Crocker, S.P. Doane, Nevada politics, Santa Ana & Newport Railroad, Henry E. Huntington being elected Vice President of Southern Pacific Co. and Collis P. Huntington as President, Oakland Railway, Union Pacific Railroad, mortgage on lots of Willard Huntington, Market Street Railway stock, Los Angeles real estate, Central Pacific Railroad stock.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

Manuscripts

44 items. Also: report on Russian immigrants in Doukhobor colony, copy of report from W.H. Holabird (probably), 1899 December 4; copy of a voucher from Southern Pacific Co. to Collis P. Huntington, 1899 December 27. Subjects: Market Street Railway earnings, Oregon & California Railroad, Santa Monica beach cottages, Gila Valley, Globe & Northern Railway Co., California bridge over Salinas River, railroad employee relations, San Francisco real estate.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

Manuscripts

64 items. Also: copy of voucher issued to Collis P. Huntington for cash advance, 1899 June 28. Subjects: William H. Holabird, Union Pacific Railroad, San Francisco real estate, Southern Pacific Co., Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., coal fields in Mexico, Willard V. Huntington, Market Street Railway stock, Charles Crocker estate, Los Angeles real estate, copper mines in Arizona, Los Angeles Terminal, Los Angeles Railway Co., Jane Stanford, Gila Valley, Globe & Northern Railway Co.

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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

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72 items. Also: copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to N.H. Conklin, 1899 November 15; two copies of form of deed between D.O. Miles and Southern Pacific Co. for certain property at Millbrae (Calif.) and two blueprint maps of property, 1899 November. Subjects: Central Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, Mrs. Stanford, Stanford property "Twin Peaks," San Francisco real estate, Los Angeles Terminal Railway, Indian School in Riverside, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, Union Colliery Co., Robert Barker, Pacific Improvement Co.

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W.H. Goucher letter to Henry E. Huntington

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