Manuscripts

William H. Carlson letter to Henry E. Huntington

Description: Also: clipping about Huntington becoming Vice President of Southern Pacific Company. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1900 March 3
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.

Henry E. Huntington letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay

Manuscripts

Also: note by Arabella Huntington; notes re: family estate; newspaper clipping re: re-organization of the California Institute Associates for the development of the California Institute of Technology. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's death, Henry E. Huntington becoming 1st VP of Southern Pacific Co., Chateau Beauregard, Oneonta, New York property gift, Henry E. Huntington's health, Caltech.

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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

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.

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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

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45 items. Also: newspaper clipping "Topics in California," copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to J.W. Ward, 1893 October 31, and copy of letter from Ward to Collis P. Huntington, 1893 October 25. Subjects: Southern Pacific Railroad Co., San Francisco street railways, Oregon railroads, Port of Los Angeles, Pacific Mail Steamship Co., Oakland waterfront case, California politics, Pacific Improvement Co., Leland Stanford estate, Utah railroads.

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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

66 items. Also: newspaper clipping re: death of Moses C. Freeman; letter by Ben Wilson to Collis P. Huntington, 1893 September 8; two proxies for vote at shareholders meeting of Esquimalt Nanaimo Railway Co. and Union Colliery Co., 1893 September 18. Subjects: Port of Los Angeles, Southern California fruit shipments, railroad labor problems, Capital Gas Co., Market Street Railway stock, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Oregon and California railroad, Southern Pacific Co., Wells Fargo, Pacific Mail Steamship Co., funds for Henry E. Huntington house, Eugene Clapp, Oakland.

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Henry E. Huntington letter to W.H. Carlson

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 Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

46 items. Also: article proposed for publication about Southern Pacific Railroad; extract of letter from Clara Huntington Perkins Young to Collis P. Huntington, 1900 February. Subjects: J.D. Spreckles, San Francisco real estate, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Nevada coal, Carson & Colorado Railroad, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, George Crocker, Dr. Stebbins, Nevada Central Railroad, Pacific Improvement Co., Central Pacific Railroad.

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William H. Carlson letter to Henry E. Huntington

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