Manuscripts

Thomas H. Hubbard letter to George Crocker

Description: Enclosed in: letter from George Crocker to Stephen E. Gage, 1900 December 3. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate, Ione Coal & Iron Co.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1900 December 3
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.

R.G. Hanford letters to George Crocker

Manuscripts

Enclosed in: Crocker letter to Stephen E. Gage, 1900 December 3. Subjects: Ione Coal & Iron Co., Collis P. Huntington's estate.

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Thomas H. Hubbard letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: two items from "The Wave," 1897 December 11; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1898 September 28; financial statement "C.P. Huntington Cloverleaf Account," related to the Toledo, St. Louis & Western Co., 1900-1907. Subjects: Market Street Railway stock, Pacific Improvement Co., Oakland railroads, Southern Pacific Co., Charles Crocker.

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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

39 items. Also: letter from J.L. Van Every to Collis P. Huntington, 1894 October 23. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Oakland, California, Santa Monica harbor, California politics, Caspar Ehorn, Adolph Sutro, Pacific Theological Seminary, Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, Market Street Railway, Paul F. Brown, Southern Pacific Co., San Francisco street railway, Mark McDonald, Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, H.S. Foote, Ione Coal & Iron Co., Phoenix Bridge Co.

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Crocker Estate Co. letter to Thomas H. Hubbard

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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Thomas H. Hubbard letters to Charles H. Tweed

Manuscripts

Also: two memos. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate.

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J.C. Stubbs letter to George Crocker

Manuscripts

Enclosed in: letter from Geoge Crocker to Henry E. Huntington, 1899 January 9. Subjects: Southern Pacific Co.

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Thomas H. Hubbard letter to George Crocker

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