Manuscripts

Henry E. Huntington letter to Ernest A. Batchelder

Description: Subjects: Pasadena Music and Art Association.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1913 March 12
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.

Ernest Braunton letter to Henry E. Huntington

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Subjects: Lily ponds on Shorb Ranch.

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Ernest A. Bryant letters to Henry E. Huntington

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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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Henry E. Huntington letters to Ernest A. Bryant

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

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54 items. Also: Blueprint showing proposed excavation and windows under music room at 1020 California Street, San Francisco, home of Collis P. Huntington; letter from Panama Railroad Company to R.P. Schiverin, 1896 June 11. Subjects: California politics, Hotel del Monte, Los Angeles Hotel, Huntington-Hopkins Co., Southern Pacific Co., Grove L. Johnson and Hiram Johnson, Oregon Pacific Railroad, railroad employee relations, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., Market Street Railway, Central Pacific Railroad, Colonel Crocker, railroad strikes and amnesty for strikers, Carlton Watkins.

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H.C.B. Brandon letter to Henry E. Huntington

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Subjects: Edward R. Bacon estate, Sir Joseph Duveen, art by Raeburn and Reynolds.

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Pasadena Art Institute letter to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: list of Incorporators of Pasadena Art Institute.

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Henry E. Huntington letter to Ernest A. Batchelder

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