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Maps
Manuscripts
In addition to flat maps, the Maps series also contain bound materials, most predominantly the Huntington Land and Improvement Company tract books. The locations on the maps mainly pertain to Southern California and Los Angeles County, with a couple charting other states ranging from across the east to west coast. The two international maps relate the layout of Triscornia, a military facility in Cuba, and Sonora, Mexico. The maps importantly reveal the various geographical involvements of companies that Huntington either owned, or did business with: Los Angeles and Pasadena Electric Railroad, Los Angeles City Railway System, California Pacific Railroad, Pacific Electric Railway, Los Angeles Inter-Urban Railway, Southern Pacific Railroad, Central Covington Improvement Co.'s, Canda Manufacturing Company and Canda Realty Company, Southern Pacific Co., Northern Pacific Territory Company, West Railway Co, Newport News Shipbuilding, the Dry Dock co, and among others. In addition to maps, this subseries also contains ephemera from the McGuire Manufacturing Company, images of railroad equipment, as well as rain charts of Southern California.
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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington
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39 items. Also: copy of letter from McMurtrie & Stone Railroad Builders to William Hood, 1899 November 4, and Hood's reply, November 8; statement of earnings and expenses of Torres & Prietas Railroad, 1899; letter from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1899 November 3 and list of insurance policies, 1899 May 27; copy of letter from J.H. Roberts to Henry E. Huntington, 1899 November 8; telegram from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1899 November 21. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's property in Oakland, Southern Pacific Railroad, California bridges, San Francisco real estate, Pullman Co., Central Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, Rio Grande Railroad, Los Angeles Terminal Railway, William H. Holabird.
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Los Angeles & Pasadena Electric Railway Co. letter to Henry E. Huntington
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Also: Minutes of Meetings of Los Angeles & Pasadena Electric Railway Co. Board of Directors, 1899-1902.
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Maps and blueprints
Manuscripts
The Maps and blueprints series consists of maps that chart locations Huntington had business interests in, as well as blueprints of his San Marino estate and railroad equipment, from 1881 to 1960. The maps mainly capture cities within Los Angeles County; some national locations, such as Kentucky and Oregon, and two international locations, Cuba and Mexico, are also included. Genres of maps include geographical surveys, maps of oil fields, tract maps, and others. A notable focus of this subseries is the activities of the Huntington Land and Improvement company. The Blueprints subseries is devoted to blueprints detailing the Pacific Electric building, railroad equipment, the Huntington residence, and the building that preceded it, the Shorb residence.
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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington
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51 items. Also: copy of telegram from Henry E. Huntington to Charles E. Graham and from Graham to Huntington, 1899 December 21; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to Mrs. Portus B. Weare, 1899 December 15; note in pencil by W.H., 1900 February 14; Collis P. Huntington account, 1900 January 1. Subjects: San Francisco real estate, Pacific Improvement Co., Guatemala Central Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, Oregon and California Railroad, Santa Monica, John P. Jones, Los Angeles real estate, Galveston properties, Central Pacific Railroad.
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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington
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72 items. Also: copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to N.H. Conklin, 1899 November 15; two copies of form of deed between D.O. Miles and Southern Pacific Co. for certain property at Millbrae (Calif.) and two blueprint maps of property, 1899 November. Subjects: Central Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, Mrs. Stanford, Stanford property "Twin Peaks," San Francisco real estate, Los Angeles Terminal Railway, Indian School in Riverside, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, Union Colliery Co., Robert Barker, Pacific Improvement Co.
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