Register of the Frederick Russell Burnham Papers, 1879-1979

Box 1-2

BIOGRAPHICAL FILE, 1890-1948.

Scope and Content Note

Biographical data and writings, a family tree, correspondence, clippings and publications.

General

Box 1, Folder 1-2

Correspondence, notes and clippings re Burnham and Russell family history. Photographic materials were removed from this file and placed in envelope J, 78082-10.A-V.

Folder 3

Notes and clippings re Frederick R. Burnham

Publications and Eulogies

Folder 4

Britt, Albert, The Boy's Own Book of Adventurers, 1923

Folder 5

Davis, Richard Harding, Real Soldiers of Fortune, 1907. See also correspondence with Davis (Box 2 Folder 10 below)

Folder 6

Goodland, Colonel H.T., Hail and Farewell, 1948

Folder 7

Lang, Andrew, The Red True Story Book, 1921

Folder 8

Russell, Charles Edward, A Pioneer Editor in Early Iowa, 1941

Folder 9

West, James E. and Lamb, Peter O., He Who Sees in the Dark, 1932

Folder 10

West, James E. (Compiler), The Boy Scout's Book of True Adventure, 1931

Box 2, Folder 1

S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., California of the South, a History, vol. 41933

Box 2-3

CORRESPONDENCE, 1890-1963.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence and transcripts of correspondence of Frederick R. and Ilo K. Burnham, arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

Box 2, Folder 2

Baden-Powell, Lord Robert and Lady Olave, 1900-1953.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include: Boer War; Boy Scouts; British army training; Yacqui Valley, Mexico

Folder 3

Bent, Arthur, 1899-1929.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include: Bardeen Oil Trust; Western USA irrigation and dam schemes

Folder 4

Boy Scouts, 1909-1958

Folder 5

Boy Scouts, Phoenix, Arizona, 1941-52

Folder 6

Brooke, Jack, 1903-1908.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include: travels around Lake Rudolph, East Africa, 1903; expedition to Tibet, 1905-1908

Folder 7

Burnham, Mrs. Blanche B., 1890-1892. Letters to Mrs. Burnham in California from her husband in Colorado and Missouri

Folder 8

Christie-Crawford, Captain Alan, 1932-1950

Folder 9

City of Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 1946-1963. Invitations to formal occasions

Folder 10

Davis, Bob, 1940-1942

Folder 11

Davis, Richard Harding, 1906.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include chapter on Frederick R. Burnham in Davis's book Real Soldiers of Fortune

Folder 12

Dominguez Oil Fields Co., 1944-1946.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include management of Frederick R. Burnham's shareholding

Folder 13

Fisher, Sir Godfrey and Lady Geraldine, 1946-1960

Folder 14

Fry, Verle N., 1942-1944.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include copyright on Burnham's book Taking Chances

Box 3, Folder 1

Gifford, Lord, and members of his family, 1896-1940.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include wars in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and South Africa. Contains agreement between Frederick R. Burnham, Hon. Maurice Gifford and Pearl Ingram and Lord Gifford and F.I. Ricarde-Deaver for the exploitation of a concession in Rhodesia

Folder 2

Grant, Madison, 1928-1934.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include Redwoods Preservation League

Folder 3

Gross, Theodore, 1942-1947.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include: possible film of Burnham's book Scouting on Two Continents; rifle training for Boy Scouts

Folder 4

Haggard, Sir H. Rider, 1922-1924.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include Frederick R. Burnham's activities on behalf of J.H. Hammond in Mexico and the USA

Folder 5

Hammond, John Hays, 1905-1936.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include: Burnham Exploration Co.; Colorado River Valley Development; develpment of the gas lift method of oil extraction; Dominguez Oil Field; land dealings; Hammond's campaign to become Secretary for the Interior; Union Oil Co.; Yacqui Delta Land and Water Co., Mexico

Folder 6

Henry, Bill, 1943-1947

Folder 7

Holder, Frederick, 1909-1917.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include: preservation of California's wildlife; public relations aspects of Yacqui Delta developments; publishing propositions

Folder 8

Hunter-Weston, General Sir Aylmer, 1911-1937.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include: American and British politics; World War One

Folder 9

Kennedy, William P., 1945-1953.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include publication of Burnham's book Taking Chances

Folder 10

Lummis, Charles F., 1908-1927.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include Southwest Society (of the) Archaeological Society of America. See also Box 3 Folder 6 below

Folder 11

Mackie, W.W., 1916-1945.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include development of irrigation crops

Folder 12

Macomber, A.K. and H.J., 1910-1946.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include gift of the Macomber collection of artefacts from Africa and Oceania to Arizona State Museum. Contains report on Black Bear gold mine prepared by Frederick R. Burnham, 1915. See also Box 3 Folder 19 below

Folder 13

The Outpost (Regimental Magazine of the British South Africa Police), 1941-1947

Folder 14

Paddon, Major Cecil, 1945-1953.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include Society of Members of the 1893 Columns, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)

Folder 15

Pinchot, Gifford, 1910-1939.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include Republican Party politics

Folder 16

Posselt, E. Harry, 1946-1952

Folder 17

Roosevelt, Theodore, and Roosevelt Memorial Association, 1917-1949.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include proposal to form an American volunteer force to fight against Germany, 1917. See also Box 4 Folder 1 below

Folder 18

Schlegal, Oswald, 1936-1954

Folder 19

Stauffer, Charles A., 1946-1949.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include Arizona State Museum. See also Box 3 Folder 12 above

Folder 20

Wright, Howell, 1940-1954.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include gift of papers of Frederick R. Burnham to Yale University's Howell Wright Collection of Rhodesiana and South Africana

Box 4

CORRESPONDENCE, MISCELLANEOUS, 1893-1964.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence and transcripts of correspondence of Frederick R. and Ilo K. Burnham, arranged chronologically.

Box 4, Folder 1

1893-1927

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include: Frederick R. Burnham's South California manganese mine interests, 1916-1917; journey on East African coast, 1893; mineral prospecting in the vicinity of Lake Rudolph, East Africa, 1904; proposal to form an American volunteer force to fight against Germany, 1917; Republican Party politics, 1908-1912; Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 1896-1902; US policy towards Mexico, 1915; Wa Syndicate, Gold Coast (Ghana), 1901. Contains agreement for payment of Frederick R. Burnham as selling agent for Tehama timber lands, 1917.

Folder 2

1930-1964

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include reminiscences of Frederick R. Burnham and of his former colleagues and comrades.

Box 4

CORRESPONDENCE OF ILO K. BURNHAM, 1934-58.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

Box 4, Folder 3

Crook, Colonel W.J., and (?), George, 1934-1944.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include: California Arabian Standard Oil (Corporation?), Bahrien; Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois

Folder 4

Knowland, Senator William F., 1950-1958

Folder 5

Millikan, Robert A., 1948-1952

Folder 6

Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, 1946-1948. See also Box 3 Folder 6 above

Folder 7

Stiles, John A., 1948-1958

Box 4

CORRESPONDENCE OF J.E. ELLIOT

Box 4, Folder 8

Burnham, Ilo. K., 1975-1979.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include gift of Burnham papers to Hoover Institution Archives

Box 4-5

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1911-1949.

Scope and Content Note

Notes for speeches and drafts and printed copies of books and articles by Frederick R. Burnham, with correspondence and notes, chronological order.

Box 4, Folder 9

Speeches, 1911-1939.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include: Arizona State Museum's Macomber Collection; Frederick R. Burnham's early life in California and other Western states; game ranching; State Parks. Most speeches delivered to Sunsetters Club, Los Angeles

Scouting on Two Continents, 1928

Folder 10

Fra Alaska Til Kap (Danish edition)

Folder 11

Manuscript and typescript drafts, including substantial amount of unpublished material

Box 5

Taking Chances, 1944

Folder 1

Burnham, Frederick R., Taking Chances, Haynes Corporation, 1944, a copy as published

Folder 2-3

Copies of inscriptions written in presentation copies of Taking Chances. The recipients are named and numbered to 464

Folder 4

Letters of thanks from recipients and requests for copies

Folder 5

Drafts of chapter on Winston Churchill with related papers

Folder 6

Haynes Corporation, printers. Correspondence and invoices

Folder 7

Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, 1942 March (containing article apparently used by Frederick R. Burnham)

Miscellaneous writings

Folder 8

Rhodes, Cecil. Drafts of an article with related papers, 1902-1944

Folder 9

Selous, Frederick C. Drafts of an article for the Boone and Crockett Club Annual Report, 1929

Folder 10

Wholly miscellaneous writings.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include: hanting, mining, prospecting and scouting in the USA and Africa; proposal to form an American volunteer force to fight against Germany; Theodore Roosevelt, 1920s-1940s

Box 6

NOTEBOOKS, 1895-1946.

Scope and Content Note

Notebooks containing transcripts of correspondence, agreements, diaries and reports, arranged by provenance of documents transcribed.

Box 6, Folder 1

Transcripts of agreements, correspondence and reports.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include: East African Syndicate, 1902-1909; Matabele (Ndebele) War, 1896-1897; Northern Territories (BSA) Exploration Co. 1895-1899; Wa Syndicate, 1901-1902

Folder 2

Transcripts of letters sent by Frederick R. Burnham to Northern Territories (BSA) Exploration Co., H. Greene and Lord Gifford re business transactions including land deals, mineral developments and Northern Rhodesian (Zambian) concessions, 1897

Folder 3

Transcripts of correspondence, orders and reports, 1900-1905.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include: Boer War; East Africa Syndicate

Folder 4

Transcripts of correspondence and memoirs, 1917-1946.

Scope and Content Note

The memoirs concern Earl Grey, Sir H. Rider Haggard and E.H. Harriman. Subjects of the correspondence include the oil extraction industry in California

Folder 5

Transcripts of diaries kept by A. King Macomber, John Blick (?) Gillfillan and (?) Stewart whilst mineral prospecting in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) for the Northern Territories (BSA) Exploration Co., 1895. Minerals mentioned include copper, gold and salt

Folder 6

Transcripts of diary kept by John Blick whilst on Wa Syndicate expedition in Gold Coast (Ghana), 1901.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include: gold deposits; possibility of improving the navigability of inland waterways. Contains an account of North Eastern Hausaland taken down in writing by John Blick from one of his porters

Box 6

SUBJECT FILE, 1899-1936.

Box 6, Folder 7-9

Alaska and Klondike, 1899-1936. Transcripts of correspondence, working papers for a publication and printed ephemera. Photographic materials were removed from this file and placed in envelope G, 78082-10.A-V.

Box 6-7

CLIPPINGS, 1879-1951.

Scope and Content Note

Clippings from African, American and British newspapers, arranged chronologically.

Box 6, Folder 10

1879-1944

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include Rhodesia.

Folder 11

1893-1901

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include: Rhodesia; South Africa; West Africa.

Folder 12

1896-1918

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include: Rhodesia; South Africa.

Box 7, Folder 1

1900-1909

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include: Boer War; East Africa; Mexico; West Africa.

Folder 2

1910-1919

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include: game ranching; mineral surveying in North America; World War One.

Folder 3

1910-1946 Miscellaneous.

Folder 4

1920-1929.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include: California State Park Commission; Frederick R. Burnham's travels in Australasia; publication of Scouting on Two Continents; Save the Redwoods League

Folder 5

1930-1939. Miscellaneous

Folder 6

1931-1935.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include Major G.H. Schoof

Folder 7

1940-1951.

Scope and Content Note

Contains obituaries of Frederick R. Burnham

Memorabilia cabinet

MEMORABILIA

Memorabilia cabinet

1 Child's sherrif badge, 1905

1 Conker (Horse Chestnut nut)

1 Cut-throat razor

1 Cycle padlock

1 Decorated card with message in (Arabic?)

1 Facsimile of a small stone inscribed with (Egyptian?) hieroglyphs

10 Glass negatives depicting East Africa, 1902-1903

1 Gollywog lapel pin

1 Greek medallion, modern

1 Gunpowder can, small

1 Indigenous worked copper artefact, Central African, late Nineteenth Century

1 Lock of hair, Mrs. William Russell

1 Medallion inscribed Courage, Loyalty, Honor

6 Mineral samples

3 North American Indian pouches

1 Printing block, Frederick R. Burnham

1 Sample book depicting Spanish tiles, 1930s or 1940s

1 Sea horse

1 Sea shell

1 Sheath for a knife

1 Snake skin

1 Southern Rhodesian (Zimbabwean) crown (coin), 1953

1 (Stirrup?)

1 Token issued by J. Lawley, Cape Town, (1900?)

78082 - 10.A-V

Slide Cabinet

Memorabilia Cabinet

PHOTOGRAPHS.

Envelope A

164 prints depicting East African scenes, people and mineral occurrences, mostly Nairobi and vicinity of lake Rudolph 1902-1903

Envelope B

18 prints depicting Rhodesian (Zimbabwean) scenes, including Great Zimbabwe undated

Envelope C

23 prints depicting South African and Rhodesian (Zimbabwean) scenes, including commemoration ceremonies for the 1893 pioneer columns in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). 1890s-1940s.

Envelope D

7 prints depicting an exhibition of the Howell Wright Collection of Rhodesiana and South Africana in Cleveland public library prior to its presentation to Yale University Library. 1950?

Envelope E

145 prints depicting scenes, people, mineral occurrences and military forces in Golf Coast (Ghana) and Upper Volta, including Kintampo market women and villages destroyed by Samori. 1901

Envelope F

28 prints depicting miscellaneous African subjects undated

Envelope G

14 prints depicting houses, street scenes and local scenery in and around Skagway, Alaska 1899?

Envelope H

3 prints with one related press clipping depicting Tibet and/or Western China, taken by Jack Brooke. 1909?

Envelope I

24 prints and 1 sketch depicting Frederick R. Burnham. 1900s-1940s

Envelope J

20 prints depicting members of the Burnham and Russell families and their automobiles. 1861-1904

Envelope K

35 prints depicting members of Frederick R. Burnham's family in Alaska, Britain, California and East Africa. 1880s-1940s

Envelope L

15 prints depicting Frederick R. Burnham's early homes in California 1880s-?

Envelope M

53 prints depicting Frederick R. Burnham's Hollywood homes, including trophies and other memorabilia collected whilst travelling. 1930s-1940s

Envelope N

17 prints depicting Frederick R. Burnham's homes and grave. ?-1940s

Envelope O

39 prints depicting Frederick R. Burnham's personal friends and their homes. 1890s-1940s

Envelope P

10 prints, no common factor, 1870s-1940s, including 1870 lynching in Los Angeles, 190? inscribed stone, Yacqui Valley, Mexico, 1938 Dominguez Oilfield.

Envelope Q

61 negatives depicting East Africa 1902-1903

Envelope R

53 negatives depicting West Africa 1901

Envelope S

25 negatives depicting Frederick R. Burnham's Hollywood homes 1930s-1940s

Envelope T

3 negatives depicting a group including W. Glenn Campbell outside Stanford University Faculty Club. 1972

Envelope U

61 postcards and 1 Christmas card depicting Alaska Rhodesia and other subjects.

mV-mW

31 prints depicting one of Frederick R. Burnham's Hollywood homes. 1940s

mX

4 prints, no common factor undated

m*Y

9 prints depicting Alaska 1930s

m*Z

3 prints and 2 cartoons, no common factor, 1900-1939, including , 1938-1939 Sunset Club Christmas dinner parties, 1939 Kofa Mountain Game Range, Arizona.

fAA

album containing 20 prints depicting one of Frederick R. Burnham's California Homes 1930s or 1940s

Slides

23 slides depicting Frederick R. Burnham, one of his homes and a Boy Scout memorial to him 1940s-1950s

Memorabilia Cabinet

10 glass negatives depicting East Africa 1902-1903

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