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Henry E. Huntington lists of item shipped to Los Angeles

Description: Subjects: Henry E. Huntington's pictures, books, furniture.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1901-1913
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.; Gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, 1978-1992.

Henry E. Huntington: miscellaneous memos relative to items shipped to Los Angeles

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Subjects: Henry E. Huntington's estate.

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Day & Meyer inventory of furniture shipped to Los Angeles for Henry E. 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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Henry E. Huntington letters to Archer Huntington

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Also: letter from Archer Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1900 October 16. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate, Chesapeake & Ohio stock purchase, Old Mill property, Mausoleum, Arabella Huntington memorial rooms and collection at the Library, Duveen, Henry E. Huntington's health.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Frank S. Douty

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Enclosure: 1897 February 24 letter had letter from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1897 February 19. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's paintings and furniture going to San Francisco, California Pacific Railroad, Olympic Club bonds, Hotel Del Monte, Union Pacific Coal Co., Union Colliery Co., Rocky Mountain Coal and Iron Co.

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Los Angeles Railway Corporation letter to Caroline Huntington Holladay and Henry M. Robinson

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Subjects: Henry E. Huntington's estate.

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Henry E. Huntington: miscellaneous memoranda

Manuscripts

Subjects: Henry E. Huntington's finances.

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Henry E. Huntington lists of item shipped to Los Angeles

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