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Henry E. Huntington at various ages

Description: Includes group portraits with his first wife and children in Oneonta, N.Y.; in group with cable car on Mount Lowe Railway; with first library staff, 1922; with grandchild, Mary Brockway Metcalf.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1890-approximately 1930
Call number: photCL 285
Provenance: Gift of Lucius Beebe, 1958.; Gift of Donald Duke, 1964.; Gift of George Davis Hapgood, 1936.; Gift of William Hertrich, 1960.; Gift of Edwards Huntington Metcalf, 1984-1985.; Purchased from Walter Miller, 2007.; Gift of Ralph R. Rule. 1983.; Gift of John H. White Jr.,

Henry E. Huntington at Mt. Lowe, 1910

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A group picture of Henry E. Huntington and associates at the Mount Lowe railway, which he had purchased in 1902. Group stands on and around the funicular car "Rubio." Huntington is on the platform immediately to the left of the car, third from the bottom. MS notes on verso read "Mt. Lowe, group includes HEH - also, probably, E--- Randolph (light suit, black hat, in the car)", "Gift of Mrs. Rox Donaldson, her uncle was E--- Randolph", and "HEH at Mt. Lowe, 1910?"

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Group portrait of Henry E. Huntington and family in Oneonta, New York, circa 1900

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MS note on verso reads "HEH and first family in Oneonta, N.Y. c. 1900." MS note accompanying photograph in folder reads "Standing - left to right - Howard E. Huntington; Clara Huntington; Henry Edwards Huntington; Marian Huntington; Mary E. (Mrs. E.D.) Lewis and Harriet Douglas. Sitting - Maria Van Vranken; Mrs. Solon Huntington; Mrs. H.E. Huntington and Chas. R. Saunders, brother of Mrs. Solon H. Taken under the "Old Apple Tree" by the side of the home, at Oneonta, N.Y."

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Children of Henry E. Huntington

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Howard Edwards Huntington, Clara Leonora Huntington, Elizabeth Vincent Huntington, Marian Prentice Huntington. Includes some spouses (Leslie Thayer Green Huntington, John Brockway Metcalf) and family groups; Clara Huntington with Max Farrand, the first Director of Research, at the unveiling of her sculpture of her father, 1930, and views of other sculptures by her.

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Portrait of Henry E. Huntington, circa 1873

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A studio photographic portrait of Henry E. Huntington, taken around the time of his first marriage to Mary Alice Prentice in 1873. He wears a dark suit and tie and has a thick mustache and mutton chop sideburns. Printed notes on verso read "P.R. Young McCrum Block, Oneonta, N.Y." MS notes on verso read "HEH, c. 1873" and "Metcalf, 1984." Another copy of this image, HEH 61/1/2 (4), gives the date as circa 1880. Later date used.

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Eliakim R. Ford letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: sketch. Subjects: property in Oneonta, N.Y.

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Henry E. Huntington and granddaughter

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One on Henry Huntington's granddaughters sitting on his knee outdoors. MS notes on verso read "Last of Aug 1916", "H.E. Huntington & Mary Brockway Metcalf", and "Metcalf coll. 1984." Identification of the child as Mary Metcalf, born 1909, daughter of Henry's daughter Elizabeth, is not certain. This may also possibly be another granddaughter, Mary Alice Huntington, born 1914, or, Leslie Alice Huntington, born 1916.

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Henry E. Huntington at various ages

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