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Shows rail lines of the railways with service in the Los Angeles to Redondo area, including Southern Pacific Railway and the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe. Shows Hill St. Tunnel, Temple St. Line, Fourth St. Tunnel, Sixth St. Line, Bimini Baths line and Pico St. Line as well as proposed franchise lines in red. This appears to be a later state of a map without the additional lines and proposed franchises. Covers the city of Los Angeles with Hollywood and the Santa Monica Mountains to the north; Santa Monica and the coast, including Playa del Rey, Manhattan, Hermosa and Redondo and Gardena to the southeast. Main Street, Los Angeles, serves as the eastern border of the map. Scale not given. Coordinates not present on map, approximated from Google maps. Relief given in hachures. Produced in the period 1903 to 1910 when all of the railways listed were in operation. Provenance unknown, in library as of 2017. Appears to have come from the office of one of Henry E. Huntington's railway companies.
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Visual Materials
This collection of William H. Fletcher commercial card photographs focus mainly on Los Angeles, California, during a period of industrial expansion and population growth in the late 1800s. The images depict various views around Los Angeles, which include Los Angeles Street and some of its intersections, the Main and Spring Streets junction, Old Chinatown, the College of Medicine at University of Southern California (in its second incarnation on Buena Vista Street, now North Broadway), Llewellyn Iron Works, Elysian Park, the Hollenbeck Home for retirees, and what may be William H. Fletcher's residence (see item 6). Also included are photographs of Colorado Boulevard, Fair Oaks Avenue, and Devil's Gate in Pasadena; the Los Angeles River; the Hotel Arcadia in Santa Monica; the Point Fermin Lighthouse in San Pedro; Ventura; Redondo Beach; and the California missions San Luis Rey, San Juan Capistrano, and San Fernando Rey.
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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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Shows streets and electric streetcar lines. The streetcar lines for Los Angeles Railway Company and franchises, Pacific Electric Railway Company and franchises, Los Angeles Inter- Urban Railway, Los Angeles and Redondo Railway and Los Angles Pacific Rail Road are depicted in different colors. Scale statement on map reads "1320 feet to one inch." Relief given in hachures. "H.E.H." are the initials of Henry E. Huntington, owner of the Pacific Electric Railway Company and other lines. Provenance unknown, in library as of 2017. Appears to have come from the office of one of Henry E. Huntington's railway companies.
646652
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Shows streets and electric streetcar lines. The streetcar lines for Los Angeles Railway Company, Pacific Electric Inter-Urban Depot, Pacific Railway Company, Los Angeles Inter-Urban Railway Co., Los Angles Pacific Rail Road and Los Angeles and Redondo Railway are depicted in different colors. Street names are listed in alphabetical order. Scale statement on map reads "1320 feet to one inch." Coordinates not present on map, approximated from Google maps. Relief given in hachures. "Copyrighted, November, 1907, by Laura L. Whitlock for Los Angeles Railway Co., Los Angeles, Cal."
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Visual Materials
This is a group of stereographs by unnamed or unidentified photographers. Includes views of: corner of Fort & 2nd Streets, Los Angeles, ca. 1880s [no. 1]; West 3rd Street, Los Angeles, ca. 1884-1886 [no. 2]; West Lake Park, Los Angeles [no. 3]; woman standing on steps of a house [no. 4]; Bee ranch, Rustic Canyon [nos. 5, 6]; San Pedro harbor, early 1900s [no. 7]; view of hotel and beach from pier, Redondo Beach, 1891 [no. 8]; Marengo Avenue, Pasadena, ca 1880s [no. 9]; General store, San Gabriel[no. 10]; Santa Anita [Hollister] Ranch and orange groves, Arcadia, 1880s [no. 11]; Santa Anita [Hollister] Ranch building and grounds, Arcadia, 1880s [no. 12]; Carterhia, N.C. Carter's house in Sierra Madre, 1882 [no. 13]; Orange tree, Sierra Madre Villa [no. 14]; Avalon Bay and Sugar Loaf with a steamer coming in, Santa Catalina Island, 1900s [no. 15]; Mission San Luis Rey [no. 16].
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