Manuscripts

Clara Huntington Perkins Young letters to George D. Hapgood

Description: Subjects: bust and bas relief of Henry E. Huntington.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1930-1934
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.

Clara Huntington Perkins Young letters to Max Farrand

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Subjects: bas relief of Henry E. Huntington, David Todd Perkins Huntington, Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

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Clara Huntington Perkins Young letters to Board of Trustees. Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery

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Subjects: bas relief of Henry E. Huntington.

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Max Farrand letter to Clara Huntington Perkins Young

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Also: memo about Mrs. Young's visit to the Huntington Library, 1927 October 28, and several notes related to the bas-relief of Henry E. Huntington.

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Myron Hunt and H.C. Chambers letter to Clara H.P. Young

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Subjects: Bas relief of Huntington.

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Clara Huntington Perkins Young

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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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Clara Huntington Perkins Young letters to Harriet Huntington

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Clara Huntington Perkins Young letters to George D. Hapgood

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