gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, Collis H. Holladay, Jr., November 1981.
Gift of Southern California Transit District, December 1981.
gift of Alta California, January 1982.
Purchased from Frances Russell, March 1982.
Provenance unknown. In library as of January 1986.
gift of Collis H. Holladay, Jr., February 1992.
transferred from Ephemera, September 1992.
Gift of March 2001.
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53 items. Enclosure: copy of report by G.B. Reynolds on coal lands near Coos Bay, Oregon, 1898 December 16. Also: copy of two reports by William H. Holabird related to Santa Anna & Newport Railroad, 1899 January 3, 7; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Thomas H. Hubbard. Subjects: Nevada politics, Central Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Co., San Francisco real estate, Market Street Railway.
50 items. Also: letters from J.N. Camden, 1891 February 25, and Jay H. Northrop, 1891 February 27, to Henry E. Huntington; memo (in pencil) by Henry E. Huntington; letter from Henry E. Huntington to W.T. Smith, 1891 July 13; letters from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 June 2, 11, 14, July 6, 15, 21, 22, 27 letter from Henry E. Huntington to Charles F. Crocker, 1892 June 28; memo giving names of incorporators of the Kentucky & Ohio Bridge Co. Subjects: Henry E. Huntington debt to Collis P. Huntington and Arabella Huntington, Chesapeake & Nashville Railroad shares, steel plant in Kentucky, Ohio & Big Sandy Railroad, Epes Randolph, Kentucky Central Railroad, machine shop, San Francisco street railways, Southern Pacific Co., Collis P. Huntington's finances, Market Street Railway stock.
Enclosure: 1897 December 11 letter had letter from E.C. Wright to Henry E. Huntington, 1897 December 3; 1901 July 30 letter had copy of letter from D.R. Nelson to Tweed, 1901 July 26; 1901 July 31 letter had letter from D.R. Nelson to Tweed, 1901 July 30; 1901 October 29 letter had copy of letter from Thomas H. Hubbard to Tweed, with memos, 1901 October 29; 1901 December 20 letter had letter from Isaac E. Gates to Tweed, 1901 December 20. Also: copy of letter from Trustees of the American Development Co. to the Mexican International Railroad Co., 1897 May 25; memorandum agreement for sale by Executors of estate of Collis P. Huntington to Thomas H. Hubbard, 12,500 shares of the Pacific Improvement Co., 1901 October 1; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Tweed, 1901 December 16. Subjects: Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Lexington machine shop, San Joaquin Valley Railroad Co., Southern Pacific bonds, Central Pacific Railroad, funding bill, Collis P. Huntington's estate.
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.
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.
56 items. Also: note from George E. Miles; list of Central Pacific stock outstanding in California. Subjects: Southern Pacific Co., Huntington-Hopkins Co., Los Angeles Terminal railway property, Nevada-California-Oregon Railroad, San Francisco real estate, George Crocker, S.P. Doane, Nevada politics, Santa Ana & Newport Railroad, Henry E. Huntington being elected Vice President of Southern Pacific Co. and Collis P. Huntington as President, Oakland Railway, Union Pacific Railroad, mortgage on lots of Willard Huntington, Market Street Railway stock, Los Angeles real estate, Central Pacific Railroad stock.
