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Sylvester H. Kneeland letters to Collis P. Huntington
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Collis P. Huntington letters to Sylvester H. Kneeland
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Subjects: Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City Railroad Co. stock.
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Collis P. Huntington estate account with Sylvester H. Kneeland
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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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64 items. Also: copies of vouchers from Southern Pacific Co. to Collis P. Huntington, 1900 March 31, April 30; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to William F. Herrin, 1900 June 8. Subjects: Russian immigrants in Doukhobor colony, Columbia River coal property, Southern Pacific Co., Nevada Central Railroad, San Francisco real estate, Central Pacific Railroad, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Terminal, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., Sonora Railroad, Epes Randolph, coal fields in Mexico.
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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington
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34 items. Also: copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to J.C. Camden, 1891 January 9; copy of proposed letter to be sent to Johnson Newlin Camden, 1891 February 11; copy of letter from Cooke Locomotive & Machine Co. to Collis P. Huntington, 1891 March 3. Subjects: Kentucky Central Railroad, lumber freighting, James M. Edwards, private car, Ohio River Railroad, E.L. & Big Sandy and Ohio & Big Sandy Railroad, Collis P. Huntington's property east of Mississippi, Frank Loveland, Lexington, Kentucky machine shop.
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John W. Alexander receipt and terms of agreement for Sylvester H. Kneeland
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Also: 3 memos listing parcels of land in Yonkers, New York, and the value of each. Subject: Kneeland litigation.
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George H. Proctor letters to Collis P. Huntington
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Enclosed in: June 19 letter was in letter from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1900 June 20; June 21 letter was in letter from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1900 June 21. Subjects: Southern Pacific Railroad, Napa Valley to Clear Lake.
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