Manuscripts

Frank Storrs letters to Andrew G. Shaw

Description: Also: letter from Shaw to Storrs, 1885 August 24. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington property in Warsaw, New York.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1885-1886
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.; Gift of Charles Apfelbaum, April 1981.; gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, Collis H. Holladay, Jr., November 1981.; Gift of Southern California Transit District, December 1981.

Andrew G. Shaw letters to Frank Storrs

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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Collis P. Huntington letters to Andrew G. Shaw

Manuscripts

Subjects: property in Oneonta, New York.

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Burr Mattice letter to Frank Storrs

Manuscripts

Subjects: New York property.

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Carrie A. Monroe letter to Botsford & Botsford

Manuscripts

Enclosed in: letter from Henry E. Huntington to George E. Miles, 1903 February 2. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate, Warsaw, New York, property.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Frank A. Miller

Manuscripts

Also: three letters from Miller to Huntington, 1903 March 5, 10, May 24; drawings of property in Riverside, California; letter from Miller to George D. Hapgood, after 1926 August 14. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate, Pacific Electric Railway.

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George E. Miles letters to Botsford & Botsford

Manuscripts

Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate, Warsaw, New York, property.

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Frank Storrs letters to Andrew G. Shaw

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