Manuscripts

La Fiesta Association, Ltd. letter to Edmund B. Holladay

Description: Also: postcard detailing radio programs for the La Fiesta de Los Angeles, for week ending 1931 June 21.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1931 June 15
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.; Gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, 1978-1992.

Rothschild Bros. letters to Edmund B. Holladay

Manuscripts

Also: copies of letters from Holladay to Rothschild Bros., 1922 May 25, June 5.

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Hunt & Hayward, Real Estate letter to Edmund B. Holladay

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Also: memo and postcard re: taxes on Santa Barbara property, 1899-1900.

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Chapin & Welsh and Gates, Ltd. letter to Edmund B. Holladay

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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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Gilles Guilbert and Claire Guilbert letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay and Edmund Burke Holladay

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Also: printed postcard showing Lenin's tomb in Red Square, two printed announcements of lecture series by Gilles Guilbert, 1935.

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Edmund B. Holladay letter to California State Automobile Association

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Collis Huntington Holladay letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay and Edmund B. Holladay

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Also: six printed items re: military service for Harvard students; five photographs including one that might be of Solon Huntington.

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La Fiesta Association, Ltd. letter to Edmund B. Holladay

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