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Letter from Collis Huntington to Solon Huntington, March 25 1850
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Burgoyne & Co. check for Solon Huntington
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For $1,000.00. Enclosed in: letter from Collis P. Huntington to Solon Huntington, 1850 June 17.
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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington
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43 items. Enclosures: 1894 June 8 letter had letter from Walter Lindley to Henry E. Huntington, 1894 June 6 and letter from Ethel E. Drummund to Collis P. Huntington, 1894 May 19. Subjects: Market Street Railway stock, Collis P. Huntington's Nevada bank account, Olympic Club bonds, Sacramento bonds, politics, insurance, California raisin growers, railroad strike.
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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington
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57 items. Also: reply telegram from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1896 September 1; letter from E.B. Hamilton to Collis P. Huntington, 1896 December 28, and Huntington's reply, 1897 January 6; copy of telegram from Collis P. Huntington to A.N. Towne, 1893 February 11; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to H.J. Small, 1897 January 27. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Southern Pacific Railroad, Republican campaign, death of A.L. Tubbs, James Bailey property in Sacramento, funding bill, Grove Johnson, Vancouver lands, Oakland Street Railway, Colonel Crocker, Hotel Del Monte, James I. Felter.
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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington
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76 items. Enclosure: 1896 May 11 letter had copy of letter from W.G. Curtis to William Mahl, 1896 January 27 and Report of Taxes Paid in California by Central Pacific Railroad Co., 1863-1895. Also: copy of letter from J.A. Muir to William H. Mills, 1896 January 27; copy of minutes of Southern Pacific Railroad Co. Director's Meeting, 1896 April 14; copy of memo regarding right of way on Sacramento levee, copy of telephone message from Jack B. Wright, 1896 May 6; copies of letter from B.A. Worthington to Henry E. Huntington. Subjects: Huntington-Hopkins Co., Adolph Sutro, funding bill, electricity in Sacramento, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Market Street Railway annual report, James de Barth Shorb's and Dennis Spencer's deaths, Grove L. Johnson, Central Pacific Railroad, Colonel Crocker, Santa Monica, J.D. Spreckels, Hiram Johnson and California politics, Pacific Improvement Co., Los Angeles Hotel, Atlantic & Pacific Railroad.
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Solon Huntington account with Collis P. Huntington
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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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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington
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34 items. Also: telegram from J.A. Muir to Henry E. Huntington, 1900 August 7; letter from Southern Pacific Co. Department of Purchases and Supplies to William Hood, 1900 August 4. Subjects: Western Union Telegraph Co., Russian immigrants in Doukhobor colony, Los Angeles Terminal, William H. Holabird, Ogden & Lucin Railroad, Central Pacific Railroad, Houston Union Depot.
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