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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives
Title: George and Cecilia Burlingame Papers
Creator:
Burlingame, George E
Identifier/Call Number: SC.GCB
Extent:
2.80 linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1898-1956
Date (bulk): 1910-1950
Abstract: George Burlingame was a local
businessman who resided in the Westwood area of Los Angeles from 1931 until 1954. The
George and Cecilia Burlingame Papers include records from the
Loomis family, Cecilia Burlingame's family name. The correspondence, business records, and
California road maps and guides in the collection depict the activities of the family in
California at the beginning of the 20th century.
Language of Material:
English
George Burlingame was born in Nebraska in 1879. Cecilia Loomis Burlingame was born in
Michigan in 1881. The couple married about 1900 and had four children. George was a local
businessman who resided in the Westwood area of Los Angeles from 1931 until 1954.
The
George and Cecilia Burlingame Papers include records from
the Loomis family, Cecilia Burlingame's family name. The correspondence, business records,
and California road maps and guides in the collection depict the activities of the family
which settled in California at the beginning of the 20th century. Much of the collection
contains property records for residential and rental real estate owned by the family in
northern and southern California from 1910 through the 1950s.
The collection is arranged into seven series:
Family
Correspondence
(1906-1940),
Family Records
(1898-1954),
Presentations (1929),
Real
Estate Records
(1904-1956),
California Maps and Guides
(1925-1953),
Pamphlet Literature (1913-1955), and
Folded Road Maps (1920-1955).
Series I: Family Correspondence, 1906-1940
Series II: Family Records, 1898-1954
Series III: Presentations, 1929
Series IV: Real Estate Records, 1904-1956
Series V: California Maps and Guides, 1925-1953
Series VI: Pamphlet Literature, 1913-1955
Series VII: Folded Road Maps, 1920-1955
The collection is open for research use.
Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of
this collection has not been transferred to California State University, Northridge.
Copyright status for other materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials
protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires
the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be
commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any
use rests exclusively with the user.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Ron Purcell, 1997
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