Manuscripts

Lathrop, Ludington & Co. letter to Solon Huntington

Description: Also: account sheet, 1861 June 23.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1861 November 11
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.

Lathrop, Ludington & Co. account with Huntington, Dietz & Co

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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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Burgoyne & Co. check for Solon Huntington

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For $1,000.00. Enclosed in: letter from Collis P. Huntington to Solon Huntington, 1850 June 17.

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M.R. Huler letter to Solon Huntington

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Also: map of lots 23 and 25 in Walton's Lower Patent, New York, 1884 May 28.

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Huntington Hammond Co. letter to Solon Huntington

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Charles E. Graham

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Also: copy of voucher from Southern Pacific Co. to Collis P. Huntington, 1899 September 30; letters from Graham to Huntington, 1908 June 23, 1918 August 14, 1920 June 9; receipt from Pacific Electric Railway Co. to Huntington, 1909 November 17. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's accounts and estate, free school at Newport News, account with Duveen.

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Israel Minor & Co. letters to Solon Huntington

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Lathrop, Ludington & Co. letter to Solon Huntington

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