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Pacific Electric Railway Company letters to Henry E. Huntington

Description: Also: copy of receipt issued to A.A. Biard, 1903 February 26; list of employees, 1904 February 1; five photographs showing Pacific Electric Building in construction, and memos on progress of plastering and construction work on building; copy of letter from G.W. Mulks to Isaias W. Hellman 1905 March 15 and from Hellman to Mulks, 1905 June 24; statement showing cost of various lines built or acquired by Pacific Electric Railway Company and Los Angeles Inter-Urban Railway Co., 1907 June 30; two equipment reports; sketch of area at 4th and Brand, Los Angeles. Subjects: Whittier line, railroad bonds.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1903-1908
Call number: mssHEH
Creator: Huntington, Henry Edwards (1850-1927)(Opens in new tab)

C.A. Henderson letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: statements of earnings, University Line of Los Angeles Railway Co, 1904 May-June, account payable, 1904 June 9; copies of telegram and letter from Huntington to Henderson, 1905 March 11; copy of letter from Isaias W. Hellman to Henderson, 1905 March 16; receipt for delivery of 3740 shares of stock of Los Angeles Railway Co.; and information brief on Los Angeles Railway Co. Subjects: Pacific Electric Railway Co., Los Angeles Land Co., Los Angeles and Pasadena Electric Railway, and Los Angeles Railway Co.

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Los Angeles Railway Company letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Enclosure: 1902 June 12 letter had copy of letter from C.A. Henderson to J.D. Bicknell, 1902 June 12. Also: Estimate of Cost of Construction, single track railway…between South Pasadena and Monrovia, 1901 June 17; newspaper clipping re: sale of railway franchise; map of Central Avenue, 6th, and Easton Street area occupied by the Pacific Electric Railway Co. power house, etc., and blueprint showing property of George W. Frink on Central Avenue; unexecuted lease between Los Angeles Land Co. and Los Angeles Railway Company, 1904 November 15; copy of letter from S.M. Kennedy to District Managers of Southern California Edison Co., 1924 June 14; printed article by Willis Owen, "Knocking the Peak Off," 1924; copy of letter from Huntington to William E. Dunn, 1924 July 15. Subjects: California real estate.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Samuel C. Baxter

Manuscripts

Also: statement of earnings and expenses of the California Pacific Railway Co. for 1903; letters from Baxter to Huntington, 1904 April 16, June 13, June 21, June 27; copy of letter from Baxter to Isaias W. Hellman, 1904 June 10; statement showing holders of Riverside & Arlington Railway Co. stock, 1904 December 31. Subjects: Pacific Electric Railway Co.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Isaias W. Hellman

Manuscripts

Also: cypher for translation of telegram; letter from Hellman to Huntington, 1903 June 2; telegram from Hellman, Antoine Borel and Charles de Guigne to Huntington, 1903 June 23, 24; statement relative to construction costs of Pacific Electric Railway lines; memo in pencil in handwriting of Huntington, Shorb Ranch agreement; agreement re: railways in Southern California acquired by Pacific Electric Railway Co. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate, Market Street Railway Co., petition by commercial bankers in Los Angeles, San Gabriel Valley Rapid Transit Railway, Southern Pacific Co., Los Angeles Railway Co.

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Pacific Electric Land Company letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: copy of letter from Huntington to George S. Patton, 1904 April 26; report on lots on Tennessee Street deeded from Los Angeles Land Co.; letter from Huntington Land and Improvement Co. to Pacific Electric Land Co., 1905 February 9.

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Huntington Land & Improvement Company letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Enclosures: 1903 September 9 letter had cost sheets of lands acquired for Pacific Electric Railway Co., from Los Angeles Land Co., and copies of correspondence between Henry E. Huntington and C.A. Henderson, 1902 August-September; 1905 March 2 letter had letter from John Earle Jarding to George S. Patton, 1905 March 1. Also: blueprint map showing lands acquired for Right-of-Way for the Pacific Electric Railway Co.; copies of letters from Huntington to Huntington Land & Improvement Co., 1904 May 20, May 21; copies of letters from Huntington to E.G. Wood, 1904 May 12, 25; letter from Huntington to E.W. Boehme, 1905 October 10; copy of letter from Huntington to Patton, 1905 January 24 and envelope advertising Huntington properties in Alhambra, California; letter from Huntington Land & Improvement Co. to Patton, 1906 October 27; copies of letters from Huntington to Patton, 1905 October 31, 1906 November 13; letters from Patton to Huntington, 1906 October 30, November 8; statements of lots sold from Huntington Land & Improvement Co. to Patton, 1906-1908; statement of disbursements for Howard Huntington house from August 1906 to June 1907. Subjects: California and Santa Monica real estate, Pasadena Country Club, Oak Grove Improvement Co., San Marino land development.

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Pacific Electric Railway Company letters to Henry E. Huntington

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