PBA Galleries

Feb. 1904. 8 x 14”, folded to 3.5 x8.5” rear docketing panel, on which Huntington’s signature appears (with cancel holes through the signature).  An Accounts Payable receipt to Skillen and Skillen, Pasadena.

The nephew of “Big Four” railroad magnate Collis Huntington, Henry Huntington organized the vast streetcar trolley system of southern California that facilitated Los Angeles inter-urban sprawl, later becoming the state’s leading collector of art and rare books and manuscripts and founding the superb Library at San Marino that bears his name.

The nephew of “Big Four” railroad magnate Collis Huntington, Henry Huntington organized the vast streetcar trolley system of southern California that facilitated Los Angeles inter-urban sprawl, later becoming the state’s leading collector of art and rare books and manuscripts and founding the superb Library at San Marino that bears his name.