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Huntington (Howard Edwards) Family Photographs
photCL 615
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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library Photo Archives
Title: Collection of Howard Edwards Huntington family photographs
Identifier/Call Number: photCL 615
Physical Description:
1.17 Linear Feet
(80 photographs, 2 pieces of ephemera)
Date (inclusive): approximately 1870s - 1940s
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).
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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[Identification of item]. Collection of Howard Edwards Huntington family photographs, The
Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Donna and Thomas Huntington (grandson of Howard Edwards Huntington), July 2008.
Initially placed in the Huntington Institutional Archives; transferred to the Photo
Archives by curator Clay Stalls, May 2019. Accession number assigned retroactively.
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.
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.
Processed by Suzanne Oatey in October 2021.
Collection of Henry E. Huntington family, residence and estate photographs, photCL 285.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photographs
Portraits
Huntington, Henry Edwards,
1850-1927
Huntington, Henry Edwards, 1850-1927 --
Family
Huntington, Howard
Huntington, Howard --
Family
Huntington, Mary A. (Mary Alice Prentice)
Huntington family
Steckel, Geo. (George),
1864-
Watkins, Carleton E.,
1829-1916