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Marie Ream Huntington letters to Harriet Huntington
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Caroline Huntington Holladay letter to Harriet Huntington and Henry E. Huntington
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Caroline Huntington Holladay letter to Mary E. Lewis
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Subjects: San Francisco earthquake.
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Lottie G. Woods letter to Caroline Huntington Holladay
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Also: copy of photograph of Holladay house in San Francisco, taken after 1906 earthquake showing refugee tents.
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Mary Elizabeth Pardee Lewis letter to Harriet Huntington and Elizabeth Huntington Metcalf
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Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's funeral.
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Mary Huntington Foster letters to Harriet Huntington
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Also: "Lilac Blossoms" poem in handwriting and initialed by Ellen M. Huntington Gates.
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Mary Huntington Sammis letters to Harriet Huntington and Solon 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, and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. Series 2. Henry E. Huntington and his family 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. Also included are the blueprints for the Huntington's San Marino residence. Series 3. Correspondence contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning 1794 to 1970. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.
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