Manuscripts

Survey wooden box

Description: Wooden box containing surveying tools, possibly belonging to Henry E. Huntington. Broken strap.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: undated
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.

Trunk

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Leather covered wooden trunk. Possibly belonging to Henry E. Huntington.

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Henry E. Huntington and others in front of railroad car "Oneonta"

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1 item. Others in photo include Collis P. Huntington, possibly Harrison Gray Otis, Julius Kruttschnitt, William Hood, and possibly Howard E. Huntington. Photo taken at Southern Pacific Railroad station in Pasadena, California, by Hill of Pasadena.

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Loose box and cull accounts

Manuscripts

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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Loose box and cull accounts

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"A.C. Cohen" metal box

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Biographical file and personal papers

Manuscripts

The Biographical file and personal papers subseries consists of biographical material regarding Henry E. Huntington, Arabella Huntington, Collis P. Huntington, and other Huntington family members from 1881 to 1984. The series includes material compiled by Curator Robert O. Schad dealing with Henry E. Huntington's life and career. This material is made up of articles, correspondence, clippings, papers about Founder's Day, and the building of the Mausoleum, research notes, and oral histories of people who knew and worked with Henry E. Huntington, collected from 1927 to 1984. There is also a series of letterbooks belonging to Collis P. Huntington containing business correspondence from 1881 to 1899. The Other sub-series contains information about Anna Huntington, Huntington family genealogy, William V. Huntington, and Oneonta, New York. There are several 17th and 18th century documents related to land ownership (presumably related to the Huntington family) as well as an undated notebook kept by Henry E. Huntington when he was a child.

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Survey wooden box

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