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Russell Alexander Alger letter to Collis P. Huntington


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    Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

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    75 items. Also: copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1899 June 20; printed map of San Francisco with additions in red ink. Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, San Francisco real estate, Sonora coal fields, W.H. Holabird, Los Angeles real estate, Utah and Pacific Railroad, Central Pacific Railroad, Colonel Crocker's estate, W.H. Kountz, Market Street Railway stock, copper mine in Arizona, George Crocker, Frank C. Prescott, Paris Exposition.

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    Collis P. Huntington letter to the public

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    Subjects: Leland Stanford, Southern Pacific Railroad, "The Argonaut," and Frank M. Pixley.

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    Collis P. Huntington letter to Russell Wilson

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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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    Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

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    68 items. Also: letter from A.K. Grim to Collis P. Huntington, 1897 September 8; note by A.B. Worthington; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to Frank A. Miller, 1897 October 19. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Market Street Railway, Santa Monica, Southern Pacific Railroad, Northern Pacific Railroad Co., Puget Sound coal mines, Oakland waterfront, employee relations, Union Colliery Co., Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railroad Co., Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Ensign Manufacturing Co., Vancouver lands, fruit shipped, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, Carson City, Nevada, coal freight rates, Hotel Del Monte, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., Frank A. Miller, Mission Inn, Riverside, Owen's Lake, "Sunset Limited," Central Pacific Railroad, Pacific Mail Steamship Co.

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    Henry E. Huntington letter to Russell A. Alger

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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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    Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington

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    33 items. Also: copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Frank M. Stone, 1895 January 10 and Stone's reply, 1895 January 23. Subjects: railroad commissioners, Southern Pacific Co. right of way, Port of Los Angeles, Collis P. Huntington's health and house in San Francisco, California politics, Adolph Sutro, note of Mark McDonald, Huntington-Hopkins Co., San Francisco Street railways, Phoenix Bridge Co., income tax on railroads.

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