E.H. Rollins & Sons letter to Los Angeles Railway Co
Description
Also: letter from A.N. Kemp to Frank Kennedy, 1915 August 23; letter from Charles E. Graham to E.H. Rollins & Sons, 1915 September 2; letter from E.H. Rollins & Sons to Graham, 1915 September 3.
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: copies of letters by A.N. Kemp to Dunn, 1915 July 27, August 20; copies of letters from Huntington to Dunn, 1918 May 31, December 5; copies of letter from Dunn to the National Labor War Board for Los Angeles Railway Corporation, 1918 November 27, December 9; copy of letter from Paul Shorp to Dunn, 1918 December 20, and copy of letter from Charles E. Graham to Dunn, 1918 December 30. Subjects: Huntington's will and business affairs, E.H. Rollins & Sons, Los Angeles Railway bonds, Pacific Light & Power, Otis bequest - advisory board, street railways fares, Metcalf debt, National War Labor Board, possible railway strike.
Also: copy of telegram from Dunn to Huntington, 1917 December 16; letter from Dunn to Huntington, 1918 June 5; waiver of notice of Meeting of San Joaquin & Eastern Railway Co., 1919 January 31, and telegram from Dunn to Huntington, 1919 January 29; telegram from Dunn to Huntington, 1919 February 10, December 3; letter from Dunn to Huntington, 1920 January 6; memorandum from Charles E. Graham, 1920 November 15; letter from Dunn to Huntington, 1921 June 15; copy of letter from E.H. Rollins & Sons to Dunn 1921 June 14; telegram from Dunn to Charles E. Graham, 1922 January 3; telegrams from Dunn to Huntington 1922 July 7, 13, August 3; copy of telegram from Charles E. Graham to Dunn, 1922 August 1; letter from Charles E. Graham to Huntington 1922 September 6; analysis of bonds held by Huntington. Subjects: Los Angeles Railway stock, Huntington's finances, city railway construction, Los Angeles Railway employee strike.
Also: copies of letters from Graham to J.E. Brown, 1923 January 31, June 19, December 10; letter from Huntington Land & Improvement Co. to Graham, 1922 December 29.
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.
