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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
mssHUB 886
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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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Manuscripts
Group photograph of the trustees of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, sitting around a table, probably in the Trustees' Room. From left to right: Edwin Powell Hubble, William Bennett Munro, Robert Andrews Millikan, Herbert Clark Hoover, and Allan Christopher Balch. Photographer: Don Downie. Note in the hand of Grace Burke Hubble on verso: "Trustees of H.L. EPH, Mr. Munro, Dr. Millikan, Mr. Hoover, Mr Balch." The men are all wearing suits, and some of them are holding pipes in their hands.
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Manuscripts
Group photograph of the trustees of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Left to right, William Bennett Munro, Allan Christopher Balch, Herbert Clark Hoover, Edwin Powell Hubble, and Robert Andrews Millikan. Photographer: Don Downie. Note in the hand of Grace Burke Hubble on verso: "Trustees of H.L. Mr. Munro, Mr. Balch, Mr. Hoover, EPH, Dr. Millikan." The men are standing in front of a doorway, and are all wearing suits. Hubble is second from the right, and both he and William Munro (far left) are holding pipes in their hands.
mssHUB 1066 (1)
Manuscripts
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