Business records

The Business records series includes financial documents and records from more than 30 of Henry E. Huntington's businesses and encompasses all his business interests (the material also contains some personal financial documents). The companies included in the series are (list is not exhaustive): Central Pacific Railroad, Dolgeville Land Co., Huntington Land and Improvement Co., Huntington-Redondo Co., Kentucky Central Railroad, Los Angeles Land Co., Los Angeles Railway Co., Naples Co., Naples Extension Co., Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. and other Newport Beach companies, Pacific Electric Railway Co., Pacific Light and Power Co., Redondo Beach Co., Riverside Improvement Co., Riverside Railway Co., San Gabriel River Improvement Co., San Gabriel Wine Co., San Marino Growers' Packing Association, San Marino Land Co., San Marino Packing House, Huntington's San Marino ranch, Southern Pacific Co., and Huntington's other railroad interests, Standard Felt Co., and Temple Street Cable Railway Co. The material consists of financial records, time books, stock records, cash books, receipt books, meeting minutes, legal documents and loans, reports, field books, tract maps, blueprints, deeds, journals, ledgers, real estate information, tax information, correspondence and telegrams, loan information, photographs, by-laws and other incorporating documentation, and sales and shipping records. Some of the records document the various crops being grown on Huntington properties and contain information about fruit and crop totals and sales. Several of Huntington's business partners, such as Collis P. Huntington, George S. Patton, Adolpho Sutro, Alfred Dolge, and A.G. Walker, can be found among the documents. In the Huntington Land and Improvement Co. sub-series, there is a series of field books containing pencil tract maps of properties all around Southern California, and a card index to those books.