Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Subjects: Hook system, Los Angeles Traction Co., California Pacific Railway Co.
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Contains map of Pacific Electric Railway and Los Angeles Inter-urban Railway System.
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Subjects: Riverside Railway franchise.
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Subjects: Market Street Railway Co.
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Also: newspaper clippings regarding Los Angeles Railway franchises, 1901 July 13; copy of telegram from Huntington to Hellman, 1901 August 2; transcriptions of coded telegrams; letter and statement from Temple City Cable Railway Co. to Hellman, 1901 September 9; copy of letter from Hellman to Edward H. Harriman, 1903 June 3; copy of agreement between W.S. Hook et al and W.A. Clark, 1903 July; copy of letter from Hellman to Epes Randolph, 1903 July 2; copy of letter from Edward T. Wright to Hellman about Huntington property (formerly Shorb and Winston Tracts). Subjects: Pacific Electric Railway bonds, Collis P. Huntington's estate, Market Street Railway Co., Shorb ranch.
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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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