Manuscripts

Pullman Company plans for private car for Henry E. Huntington

Description: Includes: ten black-and-white photographs of interior of car.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1902-1916
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.

Pullman Company letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: specifications for private car for Henry E. Huntington; memo re: finish and refurnishings of private car, 1915 February 20; blueprint showing 16-E-20 of private Pullman car showing structural bolster and platform.

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Pullman Company plans for private car

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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Henry E. Huntington letters to The Pullman Company

Manuscripts

Also: memo regarding Kruttschnitt private pullman car.

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Pullman's Palace Car Company letter to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Signed by Robert Todd Lincoln.

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Regan Car Motor Co. letter to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: newspaper clipping about motor car invented by Daniel S. Regan. Subjects: Market Street Railway Co.

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New York Central Railroad Company letter to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: three documents regarding storage of private railroad car, 1924 October-November.

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Pullman Company plans for private car for Henry E. Huntington

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