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Photographic evidence
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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Henry E. Huntington and family
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The Henry E. Huntington and family series deals with the life of Henry E. Huntington, the Huntington family and the Metcalf and Holladay families, from 1640 to 1984 (bulk 1849 to 1977). This series is comprised mostly of the "Bio file," which is material selected and designated by Robert O. Schad, Curator of Rare Books and curator of the Huntington papers in the 1930s, for his planned definitive biography of Henry E. Huntington; Schad never published a book, but he did have a smaller publication entitled "Henry Edwards Huntington, the Founder and the Library" published by the Huntington Library in 1931. The series contains biographical information about Henry E. Huntington, Collis P. Huntington, and Arabella Huntington, as well as records and documents regarding their estates and finances. There are a series of oral histories and reminiscences of Henry E. Huntington and letterbooks belonging to Collis P. Huntington, mostly related to his business ventures. There is material related to the Huntington property and residences in San Marino, California, New York City, and Chateau Beauregard in France. The financial papers are comprised of balance sheets, bank books, check stubs, monthly bank statements, and other financial documents. There are court documents in various lawsuits involving Henry E. Huntington. The collection also contains papers and material belonging to the Metcalf and Holladay families (related to the Huntingtons by marriage). There are thousands of newspaper clippings dealing with Henry E. Huntington, his businesses, railroads, and Los Angeles; that series also includes obituaries of both Collis and Henry Huntington. The scrapbook sub-series also deals with the Huntingtons and their businesses, railroads, and Los Angeles.
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Metcalf and Holladay families
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The Metcalf and Holladay families subseries contains material related to families related to the Huntingtons through marriage. Caroline "Carrie" Huntington, Henry E. Huntington's youngest sister, married Edmund Burke Holladay in 1896. Elizabeth "Betty" Vincent Huntington, Henry E. Huntington's daughter, married John Brockway Metcalf in 1906. The Metcalf family papers consist of correspondence between family members, including Henry E. Huntington, business papers of George Metcalf, Brockway's father, a scrapbook belonging to Elizabeth H. Metcalf, and genealogical information about the Metcalf family. The Holladay family papers consist of business papers and diaries of Edmund Burke Holladay and his father Samuel W. Holladay, documents belonging to Caroline H. Holladay, legal documents, material related to property owned by the Holladay family, other financial documents, and a genealogical chart of the Ord and Holladay families.
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Newspapers and clippings
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The Newspapers and clippings series contains mostly newspaper clippings clipped for Henry E. Huntington, and whole newspapers, all with topics related or of interest to Henry E. Huntington. There are also clippings and newspapers related to Collis P. Huntington, Arabella Huntington, and the Huntington family. The following topics are covered: Henry E. Huntington's art, book, and manuscript purchases, railroads and transportation, the U.S. Navy and shipbuilding, Huntington's business interests, California, significant historical events, obituaries of both Collis P. Huntington and Henry E. Huntington, World War I and II, and Henry E. Huntington's personal life and activities. There is also a series of Los Angeles Times weather reports from 1912 to 1924. Many of the newspaper clippings are photocopies.
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John Brockway Metcalf letter to William E. Dunn
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Also: copy of letter from William E. Dunn to Elizabeth Huntington Metcalf, 1920 April 15. Subjects: Henry E. Huntington's estate.
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Scrapbooks
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The scrapbook series consists of 146 scrapbook volumes containing clippings from 1870 to 1927. The clippings are related to topics of interest to Collis P. Huntington and Henry E. Huntington including railroads, labor strikes, the oil industry, the Huntington family, and Los Angeles, California. There are three scrapbooks kept by Edward H. Pardee, Henry E. Huntington's cousin, that contain clippings about Collis P. Huntington, Henry E. Huntington, railroads, and news in New York from 1882 to 1901. They were kept in the order in which the archivist found them.
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