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Clara A.E. Seaton letter to Henry E. Huntington Library


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    Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery letter to Collis P. Huntington

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    Also: copy of letter from Clara A.E. Seaton to the library and art gallery, 1950 July 11, and reply, July 17.

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    Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery collected by Mr. Culver

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    Subjects: Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, Collis P. Huntington, Henry E. Huntington's death, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

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    William Hertrich statement with reference to the intention of Henry E. Huntington as to the…trusts creating the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery

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    Enclosed in: letter from Charles E. Culver to James O. Wynn, 1931 May 18. Subjects: Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

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    William H. Mills letters to Henry E. Huntington

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    Enclosed in: 1895 July 12 and 1898 July 17 letters were in letter from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, 1898 January 18. Also: estimate of value of San Francisco property, 1896 August; record of passes issued on Central Pacific Railroad during 44 weeks, 1897. Subjects: Pacific Improvement Co., Market Street Railway Co.

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    A.S. Baldwin letter to Henry E. Huntington

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    Subjects: Collis P. Huntington estate.

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    Henry E. Huntington letter to A.E. Erskine

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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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