Contains: award presented to Henry E. Huntington by the Conductors and Motormen of the Los Angeles Railway Company, 1910 January 1 (red car engraved on one side); award presented to Henry E. Huntington by the Good Government Organization and the Citizens of Alhambra, 1910 June 25; award presented to William Hertrich at the Broadway Automobile and Flower Show, 1915 October 23. Subjects: Los Angeles Railway Co., Alhambra, Huntington Botanical Gardens.
gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, Collis H. Holladay, Jr., November 1981.
Gift of Southern California Transit District, December 1981.
gift of Alta California, January 1982.
Purchased from Frances Russell, March 1982.
Provenance unknown. In library as of January 1986.
gift of Collis H. Holladay, Jr., February 1992.
transferred from Ephemera, September 1992.
Gift of March 2001.
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Also: copy of letter from Hertrich to Huntington Land & Improvement Co., 1922 June 13. Subjects: Los Angeles Public Library and Henry E. Huntington impersonator, Duveen property in San Marino, cars owned by Huntington, Dolgeville orchard, Alhambra.
Photocopies, originals in Art Gallery Archives. Also: copy of letter to Hertrich relative to claim of P.W. French & Co. against estate of Henry E. Huntington, 1927 November 4.
Includes letter by Louise W. Watkins to Henry E. Huntington about her daughter named Arabella in honor of Arabella Huntington, from Alhambra, California, and a typed response on behalf of Henry E. Huntington.
The Correspondence series consists of the personal and professional correspondence of Henry E. Huntington, Collis P. Huntington, and Arabella Huntington. Prominent correspondents include Archer Huntington, Caroline Huntington Holladay, Samuel Wood Holladay, Edmund Burke Holladay, Solon Huntington, and other Huntington family members; Edward A. Adams and Charles E. Graham, two of Henry E. Huntington's business managers; William Hertrich, horticulturist and superintendent of the Huntington Library grounds and buildings; and British art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen; Max Farrand, American historian and the first director of the Huntington Library; George S. Patton, Jr., family friend and business partner; George Ellery Hale; George H. Hapgood, Henry E. Huntington's personal secretary; businessman Isaias W. Hellman; Architect Myron Hunt; publisher Harrison Gray Otis; the California cattle company Miller & Lux; Comptroller of Southern Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad, William Mahl; businessman Andrew Mellon; Collis P. Huntington's secretary George E. Miles; American physicist, Robert A. Millikan; architect and designer of the Huntington mausoleum, John Russell Pope; and Charles H. Tweed, chief counsel for Southern Pacific Company. There is also a copy of the autobiography of Benjamin D. Wilson. The correspondence between Henry E. Huntington and Collis P. Huntington is often in code and sometimes has a de-coded copy. They would also write letters or send a telegram several times a day. There are also several folders of telegrams and letters Henry E. Huntington received after Arabella Huntington's death, and his son Howard's death, as well as Huntington's letters and telegrams he sent out after Arabella's death. The series also includes some material other than correspondence, such as documents, bank books, receipts, invoices, financial documents, printed material, clippings, and other ephemera; some dealing with land ownership in Oneonta, New York. The series deals with Henry E. Huntington's family, health, estate, and many business ventures (railroads, land, shipbuilding), his art, rare book, and manuscript collecting, the creation of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, and the estates of Collis P. Huntington and Arabella Huntington. More specifically the correspondence deals with the Central Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, Pacific Light and Power Corporation, Huntington Land and Improvement Company, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Pacific Electric Railway Company, Los Angeles Railway Company, Market Street Railway, and Standard Felt Company. There are also mentions of the San Francisco earthquake in 1906 and Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco.
46 items. Also: letters from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1893 March 30, April 7, March 15, 21, April 5, 21, 24; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Henry Gibbons, 1893 April 5; copies of telegrams and letter from Charles H. Tweed to Henry E. Huntington, 1893 January 27, April 10, 25. Subjects: San Francisco street railways, Southern Pacific Co. bonds, Santa Monica Wharf, Panama and Cape Horn freight rates, Ferries & Cliff House Railway Co., North America Steam Navigation Co., Market Street Railway and Geary Street Railway earnings, Oakland Railroad.
The "Other" sub-series includes material related to William Hertrich, 1916 to 1966, the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery Trust indenture, 1917-1937, a George D. Smith scrapbook, 1920-1924, miscellaneous ephemera, photographs of some of the paintings, and two volumes: "Library Lands," 1931 to 1937, and "Library Trustees Accounts Payable." There are also blueprints from 1947 for the Westinghouse Building in Los Angeles, California, which was built by the Huntington Library as an investment, and undated sketches by artist Loren Roberta Barton of the Huntington residence and property.
