Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Burnett, Blanche T.
- Extent:
- 0.5 Linear Feet (1 box)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Sidney Burnett Papers (Collection 849). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists chiefly of letters from Sidney Burnett to his wife, Blanche T. Burnett from the Philippines, Shanghai, the Palau Islands, and Bogota, Columbia, but also includes manuscripts and photographs. The letters document his business at Manila, internment by the Japanese, business in Shanghai, and his work as administrator in Micronesia.
- Biographical / historical:
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Sidney Burnett was born April 28, 1889 in St. Joseph, Missouri; attended Yale University; graduated from Sheffield Scientific School in 1909; in 1940 founded export-import business at Manila; interned by the Japanese, 1941-45; opened an office at Shanghai, 1952-54; served as Administrator of the Palau Islands, Western Carolines, U.S. Trust Territory; died in Bogota, Columbia on May 23, 1961.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Blanche T. Burnett, 1964.
- Processing information:
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Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Names:
- Burnett, Blanche T.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical objects belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Sidney Burnett Papers (Collection 849). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988