Manuscripts
Henry M. Robinson statement with reference to the intention of Henry E. Huntington…endowing Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
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James A. Gibson statement with reference to the intention of Henry E. Huntington as to Revocability of the Trusts created endowing Henry E. Huntington Library & Art Gallery
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Enclosed in: letter from Charles E. Culver to Caroline Huntington Holladay, 1931 May 5.
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George Ellery Hale statement with reference to the intention of Henry E. Huntington as to revocability of the trusts creating the Henry E. Huntington Library & Art Gallery
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Enclosed in: letter from Charles C. Culver to James O. Wynn, 1931 May 18. Subjects: Huntington's estate, Huntington Library.
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William Hertrich statement with reference to the intention of Henry E. Huntington as to the…trusts creating the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
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Enclosed in: letter from Charles E. Culver to James O. Wynn, 1931 May 18. Subjects: Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
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Edmund B. Holladay statement with reference to Revocability of Gifts to the Henry E. Huntington Library & Art Gallery
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Enclosed in: letter from Charles E. Culver to Holladay, 1931 May 12.
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Charles E. Culver statement with reference to the intention of Henry E. Huntington as to revocability of the trusts creating the Henry E. Huntington Library & Art Gallery
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Also: letter by Charles E. Culver to James O. Wynn, 1931 May 18.
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Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
Manuscripts
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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