Manuscripts

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

Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1847 January 7
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 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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Safety Insulated Wire and Cable Co. letters to Charles E. Graham

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Also: copies of agreement between Henry E. Huntington and Safety Insulated Wire and Cable Co., 1922 July 14; copies of three letters from Graham to Safety Insulated Wire and Cable Co., 1922 July 18, 1923 May 29, 1824 July 9 and one to Huntington, 1922 July 17; copy of Safety Insulated Wire and Cable Co. letter to Rome Wire Co., 1922 July 19; copy of letter from Huntington to LeRoy Clark, 1922 December 27; copy of telegram from Huntington to William E. Dunn, 1924 July 8; letter from Graham to Dunn, 1924 July 25.

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Charles E. Graham letters to Safety Insulated Wire & Cable Company

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Also: letter from LeRoy Clark to Henry E. Huntington, 1922 March 30; letter and statement of account with Graham, 1922 July 3; letter from Safety Insulated Wire & Cable Company to Henry E. Huntington, 1922 September 8.

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Southern Pacific Company Comparative Operating Results - Rail Line

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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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Market Street Railway Company Rules regarding acceptance of money and making change

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Charles C. Beeber affidavit regarding real property in estate of Mary Huntington Foster

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

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