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Minutes of special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
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Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery Board of Trustees minutes of special meeting
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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, and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. Series 2. Henry E. Huntington and his family 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. Also included are the blueprints for the Huntington's San Marino residence. Series 3. Correspondence contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning 1794 to 1970. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.
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Trustees of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1939
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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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Trustees of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1939
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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.
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Charles E. Culver letters to Board of Trustees. Henry E. Huntington Library & Art Gallery
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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, and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. Series 2. Henry E. Huntington and his family 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. Also included are the blueprints for the Huntington's San Marino residence. Series 3. Correspondence contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning 1794 to 1970. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.
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2 of the Trustees of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
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The papers of Edwin P. Hubble include manuscripts and reprints of his articles, papers, public lectures, addresses, etc., scientific documentation for his papers, logbooks of photographic plates taken by Hubble at Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, diaries and biographical memoirs of his wife Grace Burke Hubble, professional, personal, and social correspondence, photographs, medals and awards, a scrapbook assembled by Grace Hubble, newspaper clippings, etc.
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Clara Huntington Perkins Young letters to Board of Trustees. Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
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Subjects: bas relief of Henry E. Huntington.
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