Manuscripts

Raquette Lake Railway Company mortgage and deed of trust

Description: Also: two copies of "An Act to amend section 100 of the railroad law…in the counties of Herkimer and Hamilton (N.Y.);" printed General Order, 1900 December 19.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1899
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.

Henry E. Huntington letters to John Boyd

Manuscripts

Also: copies of letters by Boyd to Huntington, 1903 October 8, December 1, 1904 January 29, February 2, March 16, April 2, 18, 22, 26, May 11, 1905 February 27; printed copy of letter from Secretary of the Treasury re: purchase of site for federal building at Los Angeles, 1904 January 23; printed copy of HR Bill 8361, 1903 December 18; copy of Congressional Act...to amend Sec. 17 of the Act...June 6, 1902, 1904 April 22; printed copy of Congress Amendment No. HR 18969 re: government expenses. Subjects: post office in Los Angeles.

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US Mortgage Trust Co

Manuscripts

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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Los Angeles Railway Company First Mortgage Gold Bond

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Los Angeles Railway Company letters to Charles E. Graham

Manuscripts

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.

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Union Trust Company of San Francisco letter to Los Angeles Railway Company

Manuscripts

Also: certificate (with copy) of receipt of 30 Los Angeles Railway bonds, 1919 March 25.

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Pacific Electric Railway Company letter to William B. Dana Company

Manuscripts

Also: request from William B. Dana Co. for statement of earnings for 1902 September-December; letter from Epes Randolph to Henry E. Huntington, 1903 January 7; memo to Randolph from Myers.

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Raquette Lake Railway Company mortgage and deed of trust

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