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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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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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Also: copy of letter from M. Knoedlger & Co. to G.C. Ward, 1911 January 20; map of track No. 2949 in San Marino; copy of statement of lot sales by Huntington Land & Improvement Co. and associated companies, 1915 September 18; sales report of lots, 1922-January 1-May 15; sales report, 1921 September-December; copy of letter from Huntington to Huntington Land & Improvement Company, 1923 January 15; copies of two letters from Charles E. Graham to Huntington Land & Improvement Company, 1922 June 7, August 30. Subjects: Huntington residence and shipping things from New York, Marengo Water Co., Huntington Lodge, Garvey Water Co., Huntington Hotel, Arabella Huntington accounts, 11th and Broadway lot.
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Enclosures: 1903 September 9 letter had cost sheets of lands acquired for Pacific Electric Railway Co., from Los Angeles Land Co., and copies of correspondence between Henry E. Huntington and C.A. Henderson, 1902 August-September; 1905 March 2 letter had letter from John Earle Jarding to George S. Patton, 1905 March 1. Also: blueprint map showing lands acquired for Right-of-Way for the Pacific Electric Railway Co.; copies of letters from Huntington to Huntington Land & Improvement Co., 1904 May 20, May 21; copies of letters from Huntington to E.G. Wood, 1904 May 12, 25; letter from Huntington to E.W. Boehme, 1905 October 10; copy of letter from Huntington to Patton, 1905 January 24 and envelope advertising Huntington properties in Alhambra, California; letter from Huntington Land & Improvement Co. to Patton, 1906 October 27; copies of letters from Huntington to Patton, 1905 October 31, 1906 November 13; letters from Patton to Huntington, 1906 October 30, November 8; statements of lots sold from Huntington Land & Improvement Co. to Patton, 1906-1908; statement of disbursements for Howard Huntington house from August 1906 to June 1907. Subjects: California and Santa Monica real estate, Pasadena Country Club, Oak Grove Improvement Co., San Marino land development.
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Also: twenty-four share certificates of South Side Improvement Co. of Kentucky, 1888-1893, and list of shareholders; affidavit by Henry E. Huntington about purchase of interest of Charles L. Brown in the South Side Improvement Co., 1900. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate.
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Also: agreement between Huntington Land & Improvement Company and Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1927 February 28, and a copy of that document. Subjects: Standard Felt Co.
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Also: miscellaneous stock related documents; balance sheet of personal ledger of Huntington, 1916 December 31; statement of account, estate of Collis P. Huntington for Collis H. Sammis; cartoon in pencil relative to Chesapeake and Ohio Railway; letter and photograph of war orphan, 1918 May 31; 3 lists of Chesapeake and Ohio bonds and lists of other securities; statement of account for Redondo Improvement Co., 1910-1920; 2 printed items relative to Old Point Comfort Improvement Co.; copies of letters from Huntington to Graham, 1921 February 19, April 3. Subjects: Henry E. Huntington and Collis P. Huntington's estate and finances, bonuses for L.A. Railway Co. officials, Huntington's children's trusts, Newport News Shipyard, Lewis & Simmons case, coal supplies, New York.
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