Collection of Howard Edwards Huntington family photographs, approximately 1870s - 1940s

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Summary

Abstract:
A collection of portraits and snapshots centered around the family of Howard Edwards Huntington, the son of railroad magnate Henry Edwards Huntington (1850-1927).
Extent:
1.17 Linear Feet (80 photographs, 2 pieces of ephemera)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Collection of Howard Edwards Huntington family photographs, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Background

Scope and content:

A collection of 80 photographs centered around the Howard Edwards Huntington family, including portraits of his mother, Mary Alice Prentice Huntington, her siblings, and her parents, Edwin D. Prentice and Clarissa "Clara" Stoddard. There is one portrait of Henry Edwards Huntington, sitting at a desk, approximately 1890s. Other images are: snapshots of the Howard Huntington family in groups; portraits of Howard and Leslie Thayer Green Huntington and their children; and images of Howard's granddaughter Wendy Lee Huntington as a child. There are a few photographs of Howard's sister Marian Huntington (1883-1973) at different ages, and several snapshots of unidentified children and adults (possibly including James R. Brehm). Three photographic postcards are included, with correspondence from Marian Huntington and Leslie Green Huntington. The collection includes two pieces of ephemera: a memorial leaflet for Howard Edwards Huntington, 1922, and the birth certificate for his son, Henry E. "Ted" Huntington II (1921-1978). There is one cabinet card photograph of Princess Clara Huntington Hatzfeldt with two other women by Carleton Watkins, and two studio portraits by photographer George Steckel.

Biographical / historical:

Howard Edwards Huntington (1876-1922) was born in St. Albans, West Virginia, one of four children of Henry Edwards Huntington and his first wife, Mary Alice Prentice Huntington. He started working in 1894, at age 18, in the engineering department of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. After six years, he decided to go to college, and was accepted at Harvard University. He later became an executive in the Los Angeles Railway Company and the Pacific Electric Railway Company. Howard Huntington married Leslie Thayer Green (1880-1962) in Berkeley, California in 1905, and they had six children: Elizabeth "Liz" (born 1906), Margaret (born 1908), Harriet (born 1910), Howard Edwards Huntington Jr. (born 1913), Leslie Alice (born 1916), and Henry Edwards "Ted" Huntington II (born 1921). The family lived in San Marino and then in the Oak Knoll area of Pasadena. Howard Huntington died of cancer in 1922, at age 46, in Pasadena. His widow, Leslie Thayer Green Huntington, married James R. Brehm in 1924.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Donna and Thomas Huntington (grandson of Howard Edwards Huntington), July 2008.
Custodial history:

Initially placed in the Huntington Institutional Archives; transferred to the Photo Archives by curator Clay Stalls, May 2019. Accession number assigned retroactively.

Processing information:

Processed by Suzanne Oatey in October 2021.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Terms of access:

The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Collection of Howard Edwards Huntington family photographs, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Location of this collection:
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108, US
Contact:
(626) 405-2129
reference@huntington.org
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