Manuscripts

Southern Pacific Company report to J.A. Muir

Description: Also: voucher for expenses. Subjects: Newport Beach railroad extension.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1897 August 23
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.

Southern Pacific Company Articles of Incorporation

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Subjects: Newport News and Mississippi Valley Co.

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Southern Pacific Company letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: reports by William H. Holabird, 1898 June 13, June 21; newspaper clipping, 1899 March 26; copy of letter from D.T. Bohmer to G.B., 1900 July 30; copy of letter from W.G. Van Vleck to Collis P. Huntington, 1900 August 7; blueprint of map with extension of Hearns & Brazos Valley Railway; copy of memo from J.A. Muir to William F. Herrin, 1900 September 4; copy of telegram from Henry E. Huntington to Muir, 1900 September 24; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Hugh Neill, 1923 February 26. Subjects: Frank Miller, Bixby Ranch, Central Pacific Railroad, Los Angeles Pacific Railway bonds.

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Southern Pacific Company documents

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Enclosed in: contract was in letter from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1895 April 1. Subjects: Standard Automatic Machine, Carson & Colorado Railroad.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

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27 items. Also: voucher for cash advance from Southern Pacific Co. to Collis P. Huntington, 1899 October 31 and copy of voucher. Subjects: Sutro Railway, San Francisca real estate, Southern Pacific Co. and Charles Crocker's resignation, William H. Holabird, Central Pacific Railroad.

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Southern Pacific Company. Office of the Manager letter to Superintendents

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Subjects: railroad strike.

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J.A. Muir Southern Pacific Co. vouchers for payments to Charles Seyler, account of Collis P. 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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Southern Pacific Company report to J.A. Muir

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