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Edmund B. Holladay memo about typesetting machine invented by J.M. Howe
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Edmund B. Holladay memo about Los Angeles Railway Co. stock
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Also: two cancelled stock certificates.
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Edmund B. Holladay memo about shipment of securities to Covington, Kentucky
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Enclosed in: telegram from Henry E. Huntington to Holladay, 1906 May 19.
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Edmund B. Holladay letters to Percy E. Towne
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Also: letter from Towne to Holladay, 1911 January 16. Subjects: Corr vs. deVaull and Johnson trial.
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Edmund B. Holladay memo about paintings shipped to New York after San Francisco earthquake
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Also: receipt from Wells Fargo & Co. Express for box of paintings for Arabella Huntington, 1906 May 20.
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Edmund B. Holladay letters to Robert C. Slaughter
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Also: two memos related to the sale of the Foster estate, West Virginia, 1921 July 14.
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Edmund B. Holladay memos about restoration of property and recovery of paintings after San Francisco earthquake
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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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