Manuscripts

Work on the Kern Brothers with Simpson and Sitgreaves

Description: Includes Texas phone companies; Utah and Pacific Railroad; Hotel Maryland; Glenwood Hotel; Guantanamo Co.; Washington Water Co., and others.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1849-1853 May
Call number: mssSutter
Provenance: Purchased from Anderson Galleries, November 1921. These volumes were bound, with a printed introduction by Seymour Dunbar, under whose direction they were arranged, by the DeVinne Press. Some of the papers were supposed to have been in the possession of Walter R. Benjamin and sold by him at various times to Charles A. Gunther of Chicago, according to a notice in the "Collector" for January 1922.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

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Includes Texas phone companies; Utah and Pacific Railroad; Hotel Maryland; Glenwood Hotel; Guantanamo Co.; Washington Water Co., and others.

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Letters from Richard Kern, McKinstry and naval officers

Manuscripts

Includes Naples Co.; Old Dominion Land Co.; Pacific Electric Land Co., San Gabriel Valley Water Co.; Pacific Steel, Midway Gas, Mentone Power; Low Moor Iron Co.; Pasadena Hotel, Chevy Chase Land Co.

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McKinstry's letter from the Fort to Kern in the mountains

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Includes Alhambra Addition Water Co.; Chevy Chase Land Co., San Fernando Mission Land; Ensign Manufacturing Co.; Hammond Lumber Co.; Hollywood Riveria Community Association; Huntington-Redondo, Los Angeles Railway, San Marino Land Co.; London, Ohio Water Works; Los Angeles and Redondo Railway Co.; Los Angeles Land Co.; Marengo Water Co.

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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

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69 items. Subjects: Oakland street railways, Southern Pacific Co. stock, Pacific Improvement Co., Douty, George Crocker, Elwood Cooper, Sonora coal mines, Houston & Texas Central Railroad, San Carlos Reservation, San Francisco street railways, Oakland Railway, replacement for Charles F. Crocker, Utah iron and coal mines, use of Rio Grande, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Barney & Smith Co., Central Pacific Railroad, San Francisco & San Joaquin Valley Railroad, California elections, Mrs. Stanford's shares.

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Rand McNally & Co.'s new enlarged scale railroad and county map of Texas, compiled from the latest and most accurate surveys

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"Copyright, 1888, by Rand McNally & Co., Map Publishers, Chicago" Cover title: Rand McNally & Co.'s Indexed County and Railroad Pocket Map and Shippers Guide of Texas. Prime meridian: GM, Washington. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography.

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Semple's testimony regarding the Bear Flag Rail at Yerba Buena

Manuscripts

Includes miscellaneous meeting minutes, statements of lot sales, opening prices volume; Houston Home Telephone deal; George E. and Mary B. Metcalf and Henry E. Huntington land deal; Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad Co.; Mt. Whitney Power and Electric; Safety Insulated Wire and Cable. Also includes the signed contract between Henry E. Huntington and Christian de Guigné regarding the Shorb property, 1903 January.

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Work on the Kern Brothers with Simpson and Sitgreaves

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Letters from Richard Kern, McKinstry and naval officers

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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Semple's testimony regarding the Bear Flag Rail at Yerba Buena