Manuscripts

Collis P. Huntington memorials, etc

Description: Includes photographs of Huntington Memorial Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; memorial built by Collis P. Huntington in memory of his mother, Elizabeth Vincent Huntington, Harwinton, Connecticut; views from Harwinton, Connecticut, where Collis P. Huntington was born; dedication day at the Huntington Memorial Library, Hampton Institute, Virginia; memorial building for Collis P. Huntington, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama; stone memorial dedicated to Collis P. Huntington at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, Virginia.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1886-1932
Call number: mssHEH
Creator: Huntington, Henry Edwards (1850-1927)(Opens in new tab)

Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

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46 items. Also: copy of telegram from Collis P. Huntington to G.L. King, 1893 November 29; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to John E. Sexton, 1893 December 6 and Sexton's reply, November 30. Subjects: Edward N. Grant, Huntington-Hopkins Co., San Francisco street railway, San Francisco Oakland ferry, Pacific Improvement Co., Port of Los Angeles, San Francisco electric poles, Southern Pacific Co., Newport News & Shipbuilding, Union Pacific Railroad, Oregon Railway & Navigation Co., Pacific Mail Steamship Co., Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco.

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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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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

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63 items. Also: copy of letter from J.A. Muir to William H. Mills, 1896 January 27; telegrams from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington and to R.B. Campbell, 1896 April 17; copy of telegram from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1896 April 17. Subjects: Adolph Sutro, funding bill, hydroelectric plants, Huntington-Hopkins Co., warehouse purchase, Southern Pacific Railroad, Central Pacific Railroad, Market Street Railway, Grove Johnson, Union Pacific Railroad, California politics, Colonel Crocker, John D. Spreckles, Collis P. Huntington's San Francisco house, Los Angeles Hotel, Pacific Improvement Co., Pebble Beach, Hotel Del Monte, Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.

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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

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71 items. Also: printed copy of Senate Bill 3064 and of Senate Calendar 924, 1896 May; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to John H. Gear, 1896 August 28. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, railroad strike of 1894, Japanese steamship line, Harbor Commission, silvery parity, California politics, Willard V. Huntington, funding bill, Congressman Berry of Newport News, California Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, Yosemite National Park, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., "San Pedro" shipwreck.

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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

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44 items. Also: letter from Leigh Mann to Henry E. Huntington, 1897 February 1; house service list. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco staff and furnishings, Oakland Street Railway, Hotel Del Monte, Colonel Crocker's death, Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

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45 items. Subjects: Huntington-Hopkins Co., Stanford estate, San Francisco street railways, Pacific Improvement Co., Oakland ferries, Southern Pacific Company bonds, Henry E. Huntington's health, Pacific Coast Railway, Union Pacific Railroad, Market Street Railway, Pacific Mail Steamship Co., Crocker estate, Capital Gas Co. stock, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Olympic Club bonds, Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, Newport News Shipbuilding.

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Collis P. Huntington memorials, etc

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