Manuscripts

Newport News and Mississippi Valley Company

Description: Some documents signed by Collis P. Huntington; includes notice by Henry E. Huntington appointing P.B. Gaynor as Cashier, 1891 February 2.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1888-1897
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.

Newport News & Mississippi Valley Co. Office of the General Counsel letter to Epes Randolph

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Enclosed in: letter from Randolph to Huntington, 1891 May 15.

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Frank Loveland letters to Collis P. Huntington

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Enclosed in: February 25 letter was in letter from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1891 March 2; March 5 letter was in letter from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1891 March 8.

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Newport News & Mississippi Valley Co. Reorganized letter to Arabella 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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Newport News & Mississippi Valley Co. Reorganized letter to Henry E. Huntington

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Zacher, Ely & Zacher letter to Newport News & Mississippi Valley Co

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Also: letter from Edward A. Adams to Henry E. Huntington, 1925 June 16 and copy of letter from Huntington to Adams, 1925 July 21.

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Louis B. Zacher letter to Newport News & Mississippi Valley Co

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Also: letter from Edward A. Adams to Henry E. Huntington, 1925 March 9.

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Newport News & Mississippi Valley Co. Office of the General Counsel letter to Epes Randolph

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