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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Also: four memos in handwriting of Henry E. Huntington related to Persian carpets acquired from Topakyan.
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Subjects: rugs for sale.
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Also: call tag from W. & J. Sloane & Co. for rugs and carpets in storage, 1898 June 23; copy of undated receipt; three financial documents signed by Arabella Huntington. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's accounts, estate, and house in San Francisco, Newport News Shipbuilding bonds, Reynolds' "Holy Family."
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Subjects: painting miniatures on ivory.
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Subjects: antique rugs.
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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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