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San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Also: copy of letter from Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank to Union Trust Co. of San Francisco, 1919 March 22. Subjects: Huntington Land & Improvement Co.
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Also: copy of letter from Los Angeles Railway Corporation to Union Trust Co. of San Francisco, 1919 March 21.
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Enclosure: 1928 November 22 letter had printed copy of Indenture, Estate of Henry E. Huntington Sinking Fund Gold Notes, from Executors of Estate to the Title Insurance & Trust Co., 1928 November 1. Also: copy of list of payments made from Huntington estate, 1928 November 21. Subjects: Henry E. Huntington's estate.
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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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Also: printed notice of Hearing of Petition of Executors (of estate of Henry E. Huntington) to Borrow Money on Unsecured Notes…, 1928 November 14. Subjects: Henry E. Huntington's estate.
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Subjects: Mexican International Railroad Co., Leslie Green Huntington Brehm.
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