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W.H. Goucher letter to Henry E. Huntington


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    Henry E. Huntington letter to W.H. Carlson

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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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    Henry E. Huntington letters to William F. Herrin

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    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

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    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

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    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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