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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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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: letter from May de Riedemann to Huntington, 1925 April 1. Subjects: Archer Huntington and house contents, Arabella D. Huntington's estate, Mrs. Frick visit, Reynolds, Constable, Gainsborough, Birley's portraits, John Russell Pope, Lady Colefax, Andrew Mellon, Italian art purchase, Chelsea vases by Roubiliac, Louis XIV rug, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Tate Gallery, Blue Boy, Hugh Dillman, LeJeune bust, Horace Harding, Arthur Secor, Jacob Wasserman, "Pinkie," Roger Van der Weyden "Virgin and Child."
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Subjects: "Pinkie," Mrs. Henry Fane, Countess Spencer, and Lady Hamilton paintings.
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Subjects: painting of a monk by Diego Velazquez, Mrs. Siddons, and portrait of Thomas Gainsborough.
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55 items. Subjects: Santa Monica harbor, San Pedro, Rattlesnake Island, William Graham, Jacob Dold Packing Co., Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, Oakland Railway, Henry Williams and ship "Port Stanley," Market Street Railway, Southern Pacific Co., Nevada railroad, San Bernardino narrow gauge railroad, Mrs. Stanford, Central Pacific Railroad, Pacific Improvement Co., Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco.
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69 items. Subjects: Oakland street railways, Southern Pacific Co. stock, Pacific Improvement Co., Douty, George Crocker, Elwood Cooper, Sonora coal mines, Houston & Texas Central Railroad, San Carlos Reservation, San Francisco street railways, Oakland Railway, replacement for Charles F. Crocker, Utah iron and coal mines, use of Rio Grande, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Barney & Smith Co., Central Pacific Railroad, San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley Railroad, California elections, Mrs. Stanford's shares.
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