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Colton lawsuit

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Colton lawsuit

Description: 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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Type

Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)

Date

1861-1924

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.

Gift of Charles Apfelbaum, April 1981.

gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, Collis H. Holladay, Jr., November 1981.

Gift of Southern California Transit District, December 1981.

gift of Alta California, January 1982.

Purchased from Frances Russell, March 1982.

Provenance unknown. In library as of January 1986.

gift of Collis H. Holladay, Jr., February 1992.

transferred from Ephemera, September 1992.

Gift of March 2001.

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Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

NOT AVAILABLE: Boxes 67-69, 74: Audio materials are not available for paging until reformatted. Please contact Reader Services for more information.

RESTRICTED: Box 541: Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.

Rights

The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.

Associated people

Barton, Loren Roberta, (1893-1975,)

Cohen, Alfred A. (1829-1887,)

Crocker, Charles, (1822-1888)

Duveen, Joseph Duveen, (1869-1939)

Farrand, Max, (1869-1945)

Graham, Charles E. (1868-1938,)

Hale, George Ellery, (1842-1920,)

Hapgood, George D., (1878-1966)

Hellman, Isaias W. (1813-1878)

Hertrich, William, (1868-1952,)

Hopkins, Mark, (1850 or 1851-1924,)

Hunt, Myron, (1821-1900,)

Huntington, Arabella Duval, (1843-1918,)

Huntington, Collis Potter, (1855-1937,)

Mahl, William, (1868-1953,)

Mellon, Andrew W. (1765-1848,)

Metcalf, Edwards H. (1856-1927)

Miles, George E., (1874-1937,)

Millikan, Robert Andrews, (1870-1920.)

Otis, Harrison Gray, (1824-1893,)

Patton, George S.

Pope, John Russell,

Smith, George D.

Stanford, Leland,

Tweed, Charles H.,

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