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W.B. Thorpe letter to Henry E. Huntington
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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington
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41 items. Also: memorandum of Special Tickets issued and note, 1892-1893; mem re: cost of Telegraph Avenue electric line, 1893 June 1; telegram from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1893 June 28. Subjects: Olympic Club bonds, Huntington-Hopkins Co., railroad labor problems, San Francisco street railways, Pacific Mail Steamship Co., California Gold Book (call number: 1466), Oakland Railway, Epes Randolph, Pacific Improvement Co., Union Pacific coal rates, Market Street Railway Co., North America Navigation Co., Panama Railroad.
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Henry E. Huntington letter to W.B. Thorpe
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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 Collis P. Huntington
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31 items. Also: letter from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1893 July 24; two memos (in pencil); copy of Cost of Tavern at Castle Crag, 1893 June 1. Subjects: politics, Chesapeake & Ohio bonds, Oregon & California Railroad, labor problems, Oakland waterfront case, Southern Pacific Co. bonds, Pacific Improvement Co. bonds, Market Street Railway Co., Capital Gas Co., Pacific Mail Steamship Co., staff reduction, fruit shipments.
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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington
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46 items. Also: copy of telegram from Collis P. Huntington to G.L. King, 1893 November 29; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to John E. Sexton, 1893 December 6 and Sexton's reply, November 30. Subjects: Edward N. Grant, Huntington-Hopkins Co., San Francisco street railway, San Francisco Oakland ferry, Pacific Improvement Co., Port of Los Angeles, San Francisco electric poles, Southern Pacific Co., Newport News & Shipbuilding, Union Pacific Railroad, Oregon Railway & Navigation Co., Pacific Mail Steamship Co., Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco.
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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington
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45 items. Also: newspaper clipping "Topics in California," copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to J.W. Ward, 1893 October 31, and copy of letter from Ward to Collis P. Huntington, 1893 October 25. Subjects: Southern Pacific Railroad Co., San Francisco street railways, Oregon railroads, Port of Los Angeles, Pacific Mail Steamship Co., Oakland waterfront case, California politics, Pacific Improvement Co., Leland Stanford estate, Utah railroads.
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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington
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34 items. Also: copies of telegrams from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1893 January 31; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to J.L. Willcott, 1893 February. Subjects: San Francisco street railways, Oakland Railway, California Pacific Railroad Co., Oregon Pacific Railroad, California politics, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Oakland Waterfront case, Santa Monica, Southern Pacific Co., J.P. Jones property.
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