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    Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank letters to Los Angeles Railway Corporation

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    Also: copy of letter from Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank to Union Trust Co. of San Francisco, 1919 March 22. Subjects: Huntington Land & Improvement Co.

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    Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay

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    Enclosure: 1932 May 12 letter had copy of payroll of Los Angeles Railway Co., 1932 February-May and Treasurer's Budget, 1932 April 30. Also: note by Holladay, 1928 July 6; memo on Henry E. Huntington estate, 1938 May 26.

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    California. Railroad Commission letters to Los Angeles Railway Corporation

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    Also: copy of letter from Los Angeles Railway Corporation to C.A. Henderson, 1918 May 9, and memo.

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    Los Angeles Railway Company agreement with Los Angeles Inter-Urban Railway Company

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    Signed by Henry E. Huntington and Edmund B. Holladay. Also: typewritten memo about agreement.

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    California. Los Angeles County Association letters to Los Angeles Railway Corporation

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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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    Los Angeles Railway Company memo on open accounts

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    Also: five memos re: employees, with pay rates.

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