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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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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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Also: second copy of letter. Subjects: Southern Pacific Railroad fraud case.
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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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34 items. Also: copies of telegrams from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1893 January 31; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to J.L. Willcott, 1893 February. Subjects: San Francisco street railways, Oakland Railway, California Pacific Railroad Co., Oregon Pacific Railroad, California politics, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Oakland Waterfront case, Santa Monica, Southern Pacific Co., J.P. Jones property.
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66 items. Also: copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to L.E. Lewis, 1892 February 17; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to M.E. Ingalls, 1892 February 20; copies of letters from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1892 March 11, June 7, June 11, 1892 June-August, June 30, July 23; excerpt from interview with C.F. Crocker, 1892 August, and interview with C.E. Douty related to Oakland Waterfront case. Subjects: Big Sandy Railroad, James F. Woolfolk, Newport News & Mississippi Valley Co., Alabama, Louisville and Nashville, Ashland Improvement, sale of Collis P. Huntington property east of Mississippi, Kentucky railroads, Santa Monica wharf construction, bonded warehouse in Los Angeles, politics and the railroads.
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Also: copies of opinion of Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in case Varnum vs. Huntington.
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