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Collis P. Huntington estate executors letter to Union Trust Company
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Rippetoe Lumber Company letter to Executor of Collis P. Huntington's Estate
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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, 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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Joseph L. Murphey letter to Executors of Estate of Collis P. Huntington
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Enclosed in: letter from Charles H. Tweed to Henry E. Huntington, 1902 September 2. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate.
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Warner, Tabler & Co. letters to Collis P. Huntington
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Enclosed in: October 5 letter was in letter from Collis P. Huntington to M.L. Lum, 1880 October 9; October 27 letter was in letter from Collis P. Huntington to M.L. Lum, 1880 November 3. Also: statement in cash advanced to Warner, Tabler & Co. by Contracting and Building Co., 1880 August-September.
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Henry E. Huntington letter to Executors of Estate of Collis P. Huntington
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Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate, payment to the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia.
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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington
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38 items. Also: statement of oranges shipped for seasons 1894-1895; pencil sketch of window in picture gallery of Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco; copy of letter from Guillermo Nanne to Collis P. Huntington, 1895 August 25. Subjects: Southern Pacific Co., San Francisco Street Railway, Epes Randolph, Huntington-Hopkins Co., Santa Monica, railroad commission.
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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington
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52 items. Enclosure: 1897 October 18 letter had copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to C.S. Mellen, 1897 October 8; 1897 October 22 letter had letter from C.S. Mellen to Henry E. Huntington, 1897 October 18. Also: copy of statement of earnings "Sunset Limited," 1896-1897. Subjects: Southern Pacific Co., Pacific Improvement Co., coal freights, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley Railroad, Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Market Street Railway, coal freights, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., Lewis H. Mulligan, Central Pacific Railroad stock, Oakland Railway, Hotel del Monte, Carson City Railroad, Virginia & Truckee Railroad, Oakland waterfront.
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