Manuscripts

Bradley W. Foster letters to Collis P. Huntington

Description: Also: financial documents and tax receipts. Subjects: real estate in West Virginia.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1888-1889
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.

Bradley W. Foster letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay

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Also: deed, 1920 June 17. Subjects: Foster estate in West Virginia and Huntington Land Company.

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Caroline Huntington Holladay telegrams to Bradley W. Foster

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Also: proposed deed to property in West Virginia, estate of Mary Huntington Foster; notes by Edmund B. Holladay, 1921, June 25.

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J.J. Gordon letters to Collis P. Huntington

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Also: letter from J.B. Ould to Gordon, 1888 July 2; statements, receipts for property in West Virginia, 1888; three maps showing Huntington and adjacent coal lands in West Virginia; statements of accounts, 1893. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington property and coal lands in West Virginia, and walnut timber.

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Bradley W. Foster letters to Henry E. Huntington

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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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Bradley W. Foster statement of the estate of Mary Huntington Foster

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Collis P. Huntington contract with Cannelton Coal Company

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Subjects: Paxton estate lands in West Virginia.

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Bradley W. Foster letters to Collis P. Huntington

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