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Collection of Henry E. Huntington Family, Residence and Estate photographs: Finding Aid
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Box 1

Folders 1-2

Folder 1

Henry E. Huntington at various ages

Includes group portraits with his first wife and children in Oneonta, N.Y.; in group with cable car on Mount Lowe Railway; with first library staff, 1922; with grandchild, Mary Brockway Metcalf.
Folder 2

Mary Alice Prentice Huntington (first wife of Henry E. Huntington)

Includes cabinet photographs by Carleton E. Watkins, San Francisco; views with other family, including Solon, Harriet, Howard and Clara Huntington.
Box 2

Folders 3-8

Folder 3

Collis P. Huntington; his first wife Elizabeth Stoddard Huntington; other family members

Includes Collis and Henry together in New York; a group portrait including Collis and Arabella Huntington at Huntington Camp, Raquette Lake, New York.
Folder 4

Arabella Huntington (second wife of Henry E. Huntington).

Folder 5

Solon Huntington and Harriet Saunders Huntington (parents of Henry E. Huntington).

Folder 6

Clara Hatzfeldt, 1897.

Folder 7

Children of Henry E. Huntington

Howard Edwards Huntington, Clara Leonora Huntington, Elizabeth Vincent Huntington, Marian Prentice Huntington. Includes some spouses (Leslie Thayer Green Huntington, John Brockway Metcalf) and family groups; Clara Huntington with Max Farrand, the first Director of Research, at the unveiling of her sculpture of her father, 1930, and views of other sculptures by her.
Folder 8

Grandchildren of Henry E. Huntington.

David Huntington (1910-1991); Lawrence Vincent Metcalf (1915-1990) and brother; Howard Edwards Huntington's children on grounds of Huntington estate.
Box 3

Folders 9-10

Folder 9

Private railcars of Collis P. and Henry E. Huntington, the "Alabama," "Oneonta" and "San Marino" and information file.

Folder 10

Huntington residence under construction, 1908-1910, and group portrait of workers.

Box 4

Photograph album of Huntington residence, gardens, grounds and statues, San Marino, California Approximately 1925

Physical Description: 1 album

Includes some views of Henry E. Huntington on grounds and a color postcard of a dirigible flying over the Huntington mansion.
Box 5

Henry E. Huntington as a child. Crayon drawing after a photograph (approximately 1855), in oval wooden frame. Approximately 1900

Physical Description: 1 framed drawing
Box 6

Autochromes (photographs) of Henry E. Huntington, 1916

Physical Description: 2 items
Box 6 (31)

Portrait of Henry E. Huntington (half-length), 1916. Photographer: Arnold Genthe

Physical Description: Autochrome, 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.
Box 6 (32)

Portrait of Henry E. Huntington (head shot, in oval shape), 1916. Photographer: Arnold Genthe

Physical Description: Autochrome, 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.
Box 7

Collis P. Huntington, portrait photograph in large oval wooden frame. Approximately 1900.

Physical Description: 1 framed photograph
Box 8

Autochromes (photographs) of Henry E. Huntington and bookcases, and autochrome manufacturer's box. 1916

Physical Description: 3 items
Box 8 (1)

Portrait of Henry E. Huntington seated behind his desk in the library of his New York home, 1916. Photographer: Arnold Genthe.

Physical Description: Autochrome, 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. The autochrome is mounted in a diascope, a device used to illuminate the image for viewing by reflecting light off of a mirror.
Box 8 (2)

Detail of bookcases in the library of Henry E. Huntington’s New York home, 1916. Photographer: Arnold Genthe

Physical Description: Autochrome, 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.
Box 8 (3)

Original autochrome box (empty) with label, in French, of manufacturer "A. Lumiere & ses Fils." [Antoine Lumière]