Manuscripts
Westinghouse Building, Los Angeles, California blueprints and photostats
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Other
Manuscripts
The "Other" sub-series includes material related to William Hertrich, 1916 to 1966, the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery Trust indenture, 1917-1937, a George D. Smith scrapbook, 1920-1924, miscellaneous ephemera, photographs of some of the paintings, and two volumes: "Library Lands," 1931 to 1937, and "Library Trustees Accounts Payable." There are also blueprints from 1947 for the Westinghouse Building in Los Angeles, California, which was built by the Huntington Library as an investment, and undated sketches by artist Loren Roberta Barton of the Huntington residence and property.
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Maps and blueprints
Manuscripts
The Maps and blueprints series consists of maps that chart locations Huntington had business interests in, as well as blueprints of his San Marino estate and railroad equipment, from 1881 to 1960. The maps mainly capture cities within Los Angeles County; some national locations, such as Kentucky and Oregon, and two international locations, Cuba and Mexico, are also included. Genres of maps include geographical surveys, maps of oil fields, tract maps, and others. A notable focus of this subseries is the activities of the Huntington Land and Improvement company. The Blueprints subseries is devoted to blueprints detailing the Pacific Electric building, railroad equipment, the Huntington residence, and the building that preceded it, the Shorb residence.
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Los Angeles and Southern California
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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California. Los Angeles County Association letters to Los Angeles Railway Corporation
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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California maps outside of Los Angeles County
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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Blueprints
Manuscripts
The blueprints range from standard prints to materials removed from volumes of varying condition, and facsimiles. This subseries contains the plans for Huntington's San Marino residence, which includes the blueprints of each level of the house. The blueprints show the involvement of architects Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey. The private residence plans detail the construction of the Shorb residence by architect Fred R. Dorn and details each level of the house. The plans for the railroad equipment reveal the capital resources employed by the Pacific Electric Railway Co., Los Angeles Railway Co., Pullman Company, and St. Louis Car Company. Finally, the plans for the Pacific Electric building include ephemera, specifically letters from the Los Angeles Railway Company to Huntington, dated 1903, and the infrastructural activity of the Pacific Light and Power Corporation, Pacific Electric Railway Co., and the Los Angeles and Redondo Railway Company.
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