Manuscripts

Arabella Huntington U.S. Treasury Dept. documents

Description: Enclosed in: letter from Charles E. Graham to Henry E. Huntington, 1924 March 19. Subjects: Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Collis P. Huntington's estate.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1924
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.

Sulgrave Institution letter to Arabella Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: copy of letter from Charles E. Graham to Proudfoot's Commercial Agency, 1924 September 9; four letters from Proudfoot's Commercial Agency to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., 1921-1924; printed item "The George Washington Bi-Centennial Celebration."

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Arabella Huntington financial documents

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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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Camille Weidenfeld telegrams to Arabella Huntington

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Subjects: Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.

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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

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44 items. Also: letter from Leigh Mann to Henry E. Huntington, 1897 February 1; house service list. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco staff and furnishings, Oakland Street Railway, Hotel Del Monte, Colonel Crocker's death, Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co.

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Camille Weidenfeld telegram to Henry E. Huntington and Arabella Huntington

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Subjects: Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.

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Henry E. Huntington documents with Malcolm R. McAdoo

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Includes: authorization to sell securities of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., and agreement regarding commission for sale of securities of Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.

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Arabella Huntington U.S. Treasury Dept. documents

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