Manuscripts

Henry E. Huntington residence, San Marino, California

Description: Includes photographs of the house being built with construction crews, interior views, and aerial view of house.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1909-1918
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 on steps of San Marino residence

Manuscripts

5 items. One negative.

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Henry E. Huntington descriptions of estate in San Marino, California

Manuscripts

Subjects: Huntington Library.

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Southern Pacific Railroad of California memo to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: printed schedule of lines and mileage, 1892 December 31. Subjects: roads built.

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Aerial view of the Henry E. Huntington residence from the north, San Marino. 1913

Visual Materials

An aerial view of the Henry E. Huntington residence taken during Roy Knabenshue's dirigible flight over Pasadena. The photograph was taken facing south. The photograph was taken before the library was built.

photCL 402 (00024)

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Henry E. Huntington Estate list of automobiles owned by Henry E. Huntington, located at San Marino

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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Henry E. Huntington on San Marino property and Chateau Beauregard

Manuscripts

7 items.

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Henry E. Huntington residence, San Marino, California

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Aerial view of the Henry E. Huntington residence from the north, San Marino. 1913

Henry E. Huntington Estate list of automobiles owned by Henry E. Huntington, located at San Marino

Henry E. Huntington on San Marino property and Chateau Beauregard