Manuscripts

Razor set belonging to Henry E. Huntington

Description: Box containing seven razors (one for each day of the week). With note about set.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: before 1927
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.

Whist playing set belonging to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Small box made to look like a two miniature book set. One spine reads "Chip in and Out," the other "Whist ye Not." Side is monogrammed "H.E.H." One side holds a set of playing cards, the other four rows of multi-colored chips.

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Desk set belonging to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Glass and pewter/silver 7-piece desk set that was on the desk of Henry E. Huntington. Fragile!

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Lunchbox belonging to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Tin box: "Lipton's Tea: The Most Delicious the World Produces," on lid. With letter to Emma Quigley, Henry E. Huntington's secretary, about the lunchbox, dated 1940 May 23; unidentified author.

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Henry E. Huntington and Howard E. Huntington

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6 items. Includes note about photograph of the Huntingtons at a baseball game in September 1912. The other photograph is the Huntingtons with a dog.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery

Manuscripts

Note: One letter is a photocopy. Subjects: Sterne bust, Huntington's gift of shares of stock of Hammond Lumber Company for $276,665.90 to the Library.

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Henry E. Huntington

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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Razor set belonging to Henry E. Huntington

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