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A collection of approximately 1,775 items from 1840 to 1926, it consists of letters, journals, manuscripts, volumes, and maps related to the life and activities of Dr. Joseph Pownall and the Pownall family. The collection contains material concerning the town of Columbia, California, and the Southern mines; business papers of the Tuolumne County Water Company; a narrative of an 1849 overland journey from Louisiana to Mariposa, California; high schools in San Francisco, California, in the 1870s; and information about the University of California in the 1880s. Family members represented in the collection include: Mary C. H. Newell Pownall, Joseph Benjamin Pownall, and Lucy Pownall Senger.
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1876 July-1877 November
Manuscripts
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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