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Mausoleum of Henry and Arabella Huntington on the San Marino ranch
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Huntington Mausoleum, San Marino, Ca
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Three ambrotypes of the mausoleum of Henry E. Huntington and his wife, Arabella Huntington, on the grounds of the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, made by artist Barret Oliver in 2012 using the wet collodion process. The ambrotypes were created in conjunction with the 2012 Huntington Library exhibition, "A Strange and Fearful Interest: Death, Mourning, and Memory in the American Civil War."
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Huntington Library, Mausoleum for Henry & Arabella Huntington (1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, California)
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Date built: 1933 Architect: Pope, John Russell, 1874-1937 Description: Various views of Beaux Arts style mausoleum, tomb, and surrounding garden. Publication(s): Los Angeles: An Architectural Guide, 1994, p. 419, by David Gebhard and Robert Winter; The Huntington Library, Art Collections, Botanical Gardens, p. 142, by Elizabeth Pomeroy.
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Henry E. Huntington letters to Archer Huntington
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Also: letter from Archer Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1900 October 16. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate, Chesapeake & Ohio stock purchase, Old Mill property, Mausoleum, Arabella Huntington memorial rooms and collection at the Library, Duveen, Henry E. Huntington's health.
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Henry E. Huntington resting on a tree trunk on the San Marino ranch grounds, circa 1912
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The label that accompanies this photo in the album reads "No. 92 Mr. Huntington resting near trunk of fallen oak tree, about 1912."
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Henry E. Huntington letter to Kate W. Berton : photocopy
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A photocopy of a typewritten letter sent by Henry E. Huntington to Kate Berton from his San Marino Ranch. In the letter Huntington discusses the state of his health, which is getting better after his 1925 operation, and extolls the Ranch and the state of California as wonderful places for recuperation. He also speaks of Kate's "Aunt Belle" and how much she is missed after her death in 1924. Huntington describes the marble mausoleum he is designing and having built on the grounds of the Ranch which will be his final resting place beside Arabella; Henry E. Huntington died during an operation three months after this letter was written.
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Henry E. Huntington Christmas Card showing gates of San Marino Ranch
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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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