Manuscripts

Library of Herschel V. Jones

Description: Anderson Galleries. With handwritten annotations.
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.; Gift of Charles Apfelbaum, April 1981.

Original source material relating to the early west and far west

Manuscripts

Anderson Galleries. With handwritten annotations.

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Herschel V. Jones

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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Americana from the library of Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

With handwritten annotations.

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HEH Library and Art Gallery - Book lists

Manuscripts

Includes: MacDonald slips; list of Chew books; HEH's sale receipts, 1916-1920; Halsey sale; receipt from Anderson Galleries; Quaritch's list of books bought for HEH at Huth Sale, June 1913; list of articles contained in the Sarah Heleman Whitman Poeana; Lamon Sale; Newdigate Library; List of the Laws and Acts of the Colony and State of New York, March 1920; account with HV Jones; duplicates sold to GD Smith.

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Beautiful bindings, rare and fine books, autograph letters, valuable manuscripts…by Henry E. Huntington, William K. Bixby and E. Dwight Church

Manuscripts

With handwritten annotations.

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Print collection of Frederic R. Halsey

Manuscripts

With handwritten annotations.

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Library of Herschel V. Jones

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Original source material relating to the early west and far west

Herschel V. Jones

Americana from the library of Henry E. Huntington

HEH Library and Art Gallery - Book lists

Beautiful bindings, rare and fine books, autograph letters, valuable manuscripts…by Henry E. Huntington, William K. Bixby and E. Dwight Church

Print collection of Frederic R. Halsey