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James L. Frazier and Collis P. Huntington letters
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Cary S. Cox letter to Collis P. Huntington
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Enclosed in: letter by Collis P. Huntington to Henry E. Huntington, 1894 August 23. Subjects: railroad strike.
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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington
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71 items. Also: printed copy of Senate Bill 3064 and of Senate Calendar 924, 1896 May; copy of letter from Collis P. Huntington to John H. Gear, 1896 August 28. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, railroad strike of 1894, Japanese steamship line, Harbor Commission, silvery parity, California politics, Willard V. Huntington, funding bill, Congressman Berry of Newport News, California Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, Yosemite National Park, Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co., "San Pedro" shipwreck.
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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington
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47 items. Also: copy of telegram from Henry E. Huntington to Collis P. Huntington, and reply, 1894, July 27, 31. Subjects: Railroad strike negotiations, Market Street Railway stock, Santa Monica purchase of land from J.P. Jones, Epes Randolph, Huntington-Hopkins Co., Nevada politics, California fruit shipment, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, rice, Chinese embargo, Oakland, California, San Francisco post office, Southern Pacific.
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Collis P. Huntington letters to Henry E. Huntington
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36 items. Also: Printed article on oil as locomotive fuel in Southern California; translation (from French) of method of laying wood pavement. Subjects: railroad strike of 1894, San Francisco Street railway, Huntington-Hopkins Co., Southern Pacific Co., James Bailey, iron ore in California, Collis P. Huntington's house in San Francisco, Market Street Railway, railroad commissioners, Santa Monica.
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Henry E. Huntington letters to Collis P. Huntington
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43 items. Enclosures: 1894 June 8 letter had letter from Walter Lindley to Henry E. Huntington, 1894 June 6 and letter from Ethel E. Drummund to Collis P. Huntington, 1894 May 19. Subjects: Market Street Railway stock, Collis P. Huntington's Nevada bank account, Olympic Club bonds, Sacramento bonds, politics, insurance, California raisin growers, railroad strike.
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Grove L. Johnson letters to Collis P. Huntington
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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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