Manuscripts

A.J. Bryant letter to Samuel Wood Holladay

Description: Also: note by Holladay on envelope.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1886 September 8
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.; Gift of Charles Apfelbaum, April 1981.

Samuel W. Holladay promissory notes to A.J. Bryant

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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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Herbert C. Dorr agreement with Samuel Wood Holladay

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Also signed by Edmund Burke Holladay. Also: memo regarding method of payment. Subjects: Dorr Paint Company.

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Abram Currie promissory notes with Samuel Wood Holladay

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Also: waiver of statute of limitations by Currie, 1864 May 9; and memo by Holladay, 1860 February 17.

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San Francisco. Office of the Park Commissioners letter to Samuel W. Holladay

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Also: note by Holladay.

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Georgiana Ord Holladay letters to Caroline Huntington Holladay and Edmund B. Holladay

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Also: note by Edmund B. Holladay, 1906 April 20; four letters from Collis Huntington Holladay; two letters from Helen Holladay Ord.

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Hibernia Savings and Loan Society receipts for Samuel W. Holladay and Georgiana Ord Holladay

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Also: notice of payment overdue, 1906 December 4, with note by Georgiana Ord Holladay.

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A.J. Bryant letter to Samuel Wood Holladay

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