Manuscripts

Henry E. Huntington Estate memo book

Description: Also: two documents. Subjects: distribution of household effects of Huntington.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 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.

Collis P. Huntington estate exectutors documents for Arabella Huntington and Henry E. Huntington

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Subjects: assignment of account books of Collis P. Huntington, agreement re: Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City Railroad Co., and distribution of property.

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Henry E. Huntington Estate memo related to loan to be seured by the Huntington Land & Improvement Co

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Also: statement of amount available for payment and report of securities not available for distribution, 1931 January 31.

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Henry E. Huntington memo re: Harriet Huntington's estate

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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 memo re: real estate of railroad properties

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Bowling Green Storage & Van Co. letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: invoices and documents. Subjects: delivery household items and furniture to California from New York.

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James L. Frazier letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: Bill of Sale for household furniture by Marcus Pollasky and Nellie W. Pollasky to Huntington, 1892 October 19.

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Collis P. Huntington estate exectutors documents for Arabella Huntington and Henry E. Huntington

Henry E. Huntington Estate memo related to loan to be seured by the Huntington Land & Improvement Co

Henry E. Huntington memo re: Harriet Huntington's estate

Henry E. Huntington memo re: real estate of railroad properties

Bowling Green Storage & Van Co. letters to Henry E. Huntington

James L. Frazier letters to Henry E. Huntington