Manuscripts

Business records

Description: The Business records series includes financial documents and records from more than 30 of Henry E. Huntington's businesses and encompass all of his business interests (the material also contains some personal financial documents). The companies included in the series are (list is not exhaustive): Central Pacific Railroad, Dolgeville Land Co., Huntington Land and Improvement Co., Huntington-Redondo Co., Kentucky Central Railroad, Los Angeles Land Co., Los Angeles Railway Co., Naples Co., Naples Extension Co., Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. and other Newport Beach companies, Pacific Electric Railway Co., Pacific Light and Power Co., Redondo Beach Co., Riverside Improvement Co., Riverside Railway Co., San Gabriel River Improvement Co., San Gabriel Wine Co., San Marino Growers' Packing Association, San Marino Land Co., San Marino Packing House, Huntington's San Marino ranch, Southern Pacific Co., and Huntington's other railroad interests, Standard Felt Co., and Temple Street Cable Railway Co. The material consists of financial records, time books, stock records, cash books, receipt books, meeting minutes, legal documents and loans, reports, field books, tract maps, blueprints, deeds, journals, ledgers, real estate information, tax information, correspondence and telegrams, loan information, by-laws and other incorporating documentation, and sales and shipping records. Some of the records document the various crops being grown on Huntington properites and contain information about fruit and crop totals and sales. Several of Huntington's business partners, such as George S. Patton, can be found among the documents. ------Also card index to field books. Field Books missing: volumes 31, 118, 191, 263.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1864-1979, bulk 1900-1930
Call number: mssHEH
Creator: Huntington, Henry Edwards (1850-1927)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edwin L. Lewis, November 1939.; Gift of Louise Ward Watkins, July 1946.; Gift of Collis Holladay, April 1967.; Gift of Standard Felt Company, February 1968.; Gift of Mrs. Collis H. Holladay, 1977-1981.; Gift of Clifford Henry, May 1978.; Gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, 1978-1992.; Gift of Charles Apfelbaum, April 1981.; Gift of Collis H. Holladay, Jr., December 1981.; Purchased from Alta California, March 1982.; Gift of Pasadena Public Library, December 1985.; Provenance unknown. In library as of Frances Russell, January 1986.; Gift of March 2001.
Restrictions: IN PROCESS COLLECTION:; NOT AVAILABLE: Boxes 67-69, 74: Audio materials are not available for paging until reformatted. Please contact Reader Services for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
Associated people: Barton, Loren Roberta, (1893-1975,); Cohen, Alfred A. (1829-1887,); Crocker, Charles, (1822-1888,); Duveen, Joseph Duveen, (1869-1939,); Farrand, Max, (1869-1945,); Graham, Charles E., (1868-1938,); Hale, George Ellery, (1842-1920,); Hapgood, George D., (1878-1966,); Hellman, Isaias W. (1813-1878,); Hertrich, William, (1868-1952,); Hopkins, Mark, (1850 or 1851-1924,); Hunt, Myron, (1821-1900,); Huntington, Arabella Duval, (1843-1918,); Huntington, Collis Potter, (1855-1937,); Mahl, William, (1868-1953,); Mellon, Andrew W. (1765-1848,); Metcalf, Edwards H. (1856-1927,); Miles, George E., (1870-1920,); Millikan, Robert Andrews, (1824-1893,); Otis, Harrison Gray,; Patton, George S.; Pope, John Russell, 1874-1937,; Smith, George D.; Stanford, Leland,; Tweed, Charles H.,
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