Manuscripts

Pasadena Art Institute letter to Henry E. Huntington

Description: Also: list of Incorporators of Pasadena Art Institute.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1924 February 5
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.

California Art Club letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: California Art Club member list, other printed items; copy of letter from Huntington to E. Roscoe Shrader, 1924 December 30.

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Union Trust and Savings Bank of Pasadena letter to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: copy of receipt from Union Trust and Savings Bank of Pasadena, 1916 May 23; list of bonds, 1917 March 9.

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Pasadena Country Club letter to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: list of stockholders of Oak Grove Improvement Co.

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Pasadena Music and Art Association letter to Henry E. Huntington

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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 (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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Pasadena Audubon Society letter to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: copy of resolutions…of Pasadena Audubon Society.

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Rotary Club of Pasadena letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: letter from Huntington to Rotary Club of Pasadena, 1923 March 10.

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Pasadena Art Institute letter to Henry E. Huntington

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