Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Henry and Collis Huntington standing on a sidewalk in San Francisco with a newspaper boy. Henry has a newspaper under his arm, and Collis is leaning on a cane. MS note attached to verso reads "With Collis in San Francisco, about 1892." Another copy, photCL 285 folder 3 (3), has MS notes on the verso that read "Collis P. Huntington, HEH, and newsboy" and "Metcalf, 1984."
mssHEH 61/3/2 (10)
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Oval, bust-length studio portrait of Collis P. Huntington in profile. He wears a three piece suit with a white shirt and black bow tie. His beard is graying, except for the part at his chin which is almost completely white. Another portrait of Collis which seems to come from the same sitting (HEH 61/1/2 (10)) has an MS note on verso which reads "Sept. 5th 1879."
mssHEH 61/1/2 (13)
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50 items. Also: letter and telegram from Jay H. Northrop to Henry E. Huntington, 1891 October 11, 12; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to Northrup, 1891 October 26; copies of letters to C.L. Brown, Northrup, and Joseph S. Woolfolk from Henry E. Huntington, 1891 October 27; telegram from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, and copy of telegram from Henry E. Huntington to Northrup, 1892 February 29; letter from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 July 21; excerpts from letters from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 August 15; letter from W.D. Gilette to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 August 8; letter from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 August 15. Subjects: Big Sandy Railroad, Epes Randolph, Kentucky Central Railroad, Ashland Improvement Co. stock, Southern California Co., Southern California fruit production, Santa Monica breakwater, San Francisco street railways.
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55 items. Also: copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to N.F. Smith, 1892 November 22; letters from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 November 15, December 8; copies of telegrams from J.A. Muir to A.N. Towne, 1892 November 24; letter from Wilson & Wilson to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 December 23; copy of letter from T.J. Wilson to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 December 31; letters from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 December 2, 29, 1893 January 6; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to George E. Miles, 1893 January 16. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's finances, Santa Monica wharf, Redondo wharf, Southern Pacific Co., San Francisco street railways, W.W. Stow, California politics, Stephen Mallory White, Chicago lakefront case, Galveston, Houston & San Antonio Railroad, Oakland railroad, Central Railroad, Union Pacific, Henry E. Huntington's health, California Pacific Railroad Co.
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66 items. Also: copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to L.E. Lewis, 1892 February 17; copy of letter from Henry E. Huntington to M.E. Ingalls, 1892 February 20; copies of letters from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1892 March 11, June 7, June 11, 1892 June-August, June 30, July 23; excerpt from interview with C.F. Crocker, 1892 August, and interview with C.E. Douty related to Oakland Waterfront case. Subjects: Big Sandy Railroad, James F. Woolfolk, Newport News & Mississippi Valley Co., Alabama, Louisville and Nashville, Ashland Improvement, sale of Collis P. Huntington property east of Mississippi, Kentucky railroads, Santa Monica wharf construction, bonded warehouse in Los Angeles, politics and the railroads.
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50 items. Also: letters from J.N. Camden, 1891 February 25, and Jay H. Northrop, 1891 February 27, to Henry E. Huntington; memo (in pencil) by Henry E. Huntington; letter from Henry E. Huntington to W.T. Smith, 1891 July 13; letters from Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 June 2, 11, 14, July 6, 15, 21, 22, 27 letter from Henry E. Huntington to Charles F. Crocker, 1892 June 28; memo giving names of incorporators of the Kentucky & Ohio Bridge Co. Subjects: Henry E. Huntington debt to Collis P. Huntington and Arabella Huntington, Chesapeake & Nashville Railroad shares, steel plant in Kentucky, Ohio & Big Sandy Railroad, Epes Randolph, Kentucky Central Railroad, machine shop, San Francisco street railways, Southern Pacific Co., Collis P. Huntington's finances, Market Street Railway stock.
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