Manuscripts

H.H. Topakyan letter to and invoices for Henry E. Huntington

Description: Also: four memos in handwriting of Henry E. Huntington related to Persian carpets acquired from Topakyan.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1907-1909
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.

W. & J. Sloane & Co. letter to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Enclosed in: copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1896 January 9. Also: document of credit for work not done, 1911 May 27. Subjects: carpets in San Francisco house.

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Mary Huntington Foster letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: Power of Attorney of estate of Solon Huntington, 1890 August 16, signed by Charles Willard Vincent Huntington, Caroline Huntington Holladay, Harriet Huntington, and Henry E. Huntington (in his handwriting), and assignment of interest by Henry E. Huntington to Harriet Huntington.

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H.H. Sinclair letter to Henry E. Huntington

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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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

62 items. Also: copy of telegram from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1898 January 14; Power of Attorney from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1898 May 11; two news clippings regarding compressed air for street railway systems; four memos related to capital stock in companies owned by the Southern Pacific Co.; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to William McLaughlin, 1898 July 13. Subjects: Pacific Mail Steamship Co., J.A. Fillmore, Joaquin Miller, Richard Croker, New York politics, Dole in Hawaii, oranges for Collis P. Huntington and his house in San Francisco, San Pedro Railroad, Oakland Street and Los Angeles Street railways, Pacific Improvement Co., Southern Pacific Co., Central Pacific Railroad, George Crocker, California politics.

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H.H. Topakyan invoices for Arabella Huntington

Manuscripts

Subjects: Persian rugs.

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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

48 items. Note: receipt dated 1893 March is in the handwriting of Henry E. Huntington. Also: draft of telegram from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1893 March 2; copy of telegram from G.L. King to Henry E. Huntington, 1893 March 2; copies of letters from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1893 February 15, March 6, April 18; copy of Report of Earnings of the Arizona & New Mexico Railroad, 1892; copy of letter from J. Kennedy Tod to Collis P. Huntington, 1893 March 29, and Huntington's reply, April 7; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to J.C. Stubbs, 1893 April 24. Subjects: Oregon Pacific Railroad, Oakland Railway, San Francisco Street railways, John P. Raymond, Huntington-Hopkins Co., Santa Monica, Southern Pacific Co., Panama and Cape Horn freight rates, San Pedro, Market Street Railway, Lewis Tasheira.

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H.H. Topakyan letter to and invoices for Henry E. Huntington

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