Series 1 Chronological Files 1918-1980
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence : Fritz Burns, Robert Burns, Clifford Gillespie, W.E. Schreyer 1918-1924
Dickinson & Gillespie "The Del Rey Development". Empty binder. circa 1924
Dickinson & Gillespie receipt book after 1921
Dickinson & Gillespie--Sales School: Lecture No. 1 and No. 2 after 1921
Palisades del Rey brochure circa 1924
Palisades del Rey newspaper advertising insert after 1924
Palisades del Rey printed views after 1924
"A Few Auction Points to Remember" Clifford Gillespie to Mr. Burns. Also Sales Manager's Daily Report (blank form) and Sales Manager's Campaign Plans (blank form) 1921
Telegrams and letter, Dickinson and Gillespie 1921
Glendale Manor brochure circa 1922
Weekly Report, Dickinson & Gillespie. Brockton Mass., Ellsworth Heights 1922
Hollydale Gardens brochure 1922
Los Angeles University and Loyola University: drawings: bird's eye views showing proposed sites. "List of 106 Lutheran Colleges, Academies and Seminaries throughout the United States" circa 1926
"DEL REY TRACT NO. 9809." Colored drawing which includes the proposed sites for Los Angeles University and Loyola University undated
Dickinson & Gillespie "List of developments, view of offices and officers" circa 1927
Map: "Del Rey Hills served by Six Major Boulevards!!" 1927
Low Cost Housing, Inc. "Message to Prospective Home Owners of Low Cost Housing Incorporated" circa 1937
Outline map showing locations of school sites in Los Angles City school districts 1940
"Speeches--Other Organizations" 1940-1942
Certificate: charter member Home Builders Institute of America 1941
Morning Sales Meetings--Preliminary Notes. F.W. Marlow and Fritz B. Burns 1941
"Fritz Burns Knows his Roofs." Advertisement for Red Cedar Shingle Bureau 1942
Fritz Burns booklet: "Livable Homes by Those Who Love Living" 1942
Speech Material 1943-1944
"Speeches and Memos on Speeches and Outlines" 1943-1944
Toluca Wood brochure 1945
Airport 1945-1951
Public Housing circa 1949-1952
Real estate brochure: "The Post-War House Wilshire Blvd. at Highland Ave. Los Angeles" circa 1946
National Association of Home Builders 1950-1951
Bunker Hill Home Restoration 1954
Speeches: notes, announcements about Fritz Burns speaking engagements, letters from Fritz Burns to members of the panel at the Mid-Pacific Housing Conference 1957
Poster with analysis of land use for South Bunker Hill, Los Angeles circa 1958
Invitations to serve on boards, committees, etc. 1958-1963
Zeta Psi Fraternity: clipping, letter from Arthur H. Motley to Fritz Burns, photos of Motley and Burns 1959-1960
Invitations accepted and affairs attended 1959-1964
Certificate of membership in the Clipper Club. Made out to "F. Patrick Burns" 1962
Invitations--Regrets [1 of 2] 1963-1964
Invitations--Regrets [2 of 2] 1964
Appraisal Report. Garrett Corporation Property at the Northwest Corner of Sepulveda Blvd. and World Way (Century Blvd.) 1964
Annual Award for Distinguished Service, presented to F. Patrick Burns by the Volunteers of America of Los Angeles 1966
Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation, Inc. Annual Dinner. Menu and program, alphabetical list and table arrangement. 1966
Ford City Village Apartments (Chicago) 1968
Fritz Burns "the Auto-biography" notes circa 1970s
Membership certificate: Fritz B. Burns as a Perpetual Member of Vincentian Association of the Miraculous Medal 1975
Fritz Burns biographical information for The American Catholic Who's Who 1976-1077
F. Patrick Burns: notes, letters, receipts. Also information pertaining to Hilton Hawaiian Village. 1976 1978 undated
Loyola Lawyer: The Magazine of Loyola Law School. Mentions Fritz Burns and the Burns Foundation 1977 1992
Certificate of Appreciation. Los Angeles Beautiful to Fritz B. Burns and Associates. 1980
Booklet: The Beverly Hilton undated
New Mexico brochure undated
Residence Park (Stockton) brochure undated
Erawan Garden Hotel, Indian Wells California (brochure). "An investment of Fritz B. Burns and Associates." undated
"Metropolitan Surveys, Industrial Guide and Street Index of Los Angeles and Its Environs." Los Angles: Metropolitan Surveys. undated
Windsor Hills: for sale sign, sales booklet, invitation to open house undated
Windsor Hills advertisement undated
Map: Changing Mid-City Area. Map released by the Home Realty Co. undated
Series 2 Legal and Financial Records 1927-1936
Scope and Content Note
Collateral Assignment of Beneficial Interest with Fritz and Lucille Burns as the Assignees and W.E. and Gerda Schreyer as the Assignors; an Indenture of Lease with Properties and Securities Corporation, Fritz Burns and W.E. Schreyer as the Lessors and Lou Somers as the Lessee. 1927-1931
Notes on meeting of the Properties and Securities Corporation; Statements of Condition for Union Bank & Trust Co. and Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles; membership card (made out to Fritz Burns) and flyer for Lake Norconian Club; article: "Real Estate Exchange for Los Angeles" by Logan F. Metcalf; letters and statements pertaining to the Del Rey Development and Investment Corporation" 1929-1930
Letter from W.E. Schreyer to Fritz Burns; paperwork between Fritz Burns and Dickinson & Gillespie pertaining to a note for $31,930.00. 1929-1933
weekly statements of the Del Rey Swim Club and a fee sheet for furnishing and placing foundation piles at Playa Del Rey for the Del Rey Swim Club. 1930-1932
drafts of leases in Playa Del Rey Townsite; brochures and letters about Olympic Houses and the possibility of using them as beach houses. 1932-1933
Includes leases in Playa Del Rey Townsite; letters pertaining to the Del Rey Swim Club; an "Olympic Beach Club" inventory. 1932-1933
Drafts of a lease in Playa Del Rey Townsite; "Memorandum re Del Rey Trust Property"; an inventory for the Del Rey Swim Club. 1932-1934
REcords pertaining to leasing cottages in Playa Del Rey Townsite. 1932-1935
Drafts of lease and final(?) lease for M.K. Monroe occupy property in Playa Del Rey Townsite. 1933
newspaper ad: "Free Beer! Olympic Beer Garden...at Del Rey"; leases for the bathhouse in Playa Del Rey Townsite and receipts related to that business. 1934
Bill of sale and leases and other paperwork for cottages in Playa Del Rey. 1936
Series 3 Photographs 1885-1980
Subseries A Prints 1874-1887
Scope and Content Note
Aerial--Airports--Hawthorne (1), unidentified (1) undated
Aerial--Amusement Parks--Pacific Ocean Park (2) undated
Aerial--Cemeteries--Parklawn (2) undated
Aerial--Cities & Communities--Burbank (1), Canoga Park (1), Griffith Ranch (1), Long Beach (2). undated
Aerial--Cities & Communities--Los Angeles (6) undated
Aerial--Cities & Communities--Marina Del Rey 1960
Aerial--Cities & Communities--Oceanside (1), Panorama City (2), Santa Monica (2) undated
Aerial--Cities & Communities--San Fernando Valley (8) undated
Aerial--Cities & Communities--Sunland (1), Toluca Woods (2), Universal City (1) undated
Aerial--Cities & Communities--Van Nuys (1); Westchester Area (7), including aerial photograph of Loyola University campus; Windsor Hills (1) undated
Aerial--Cities & Communities--Westchester, Marina del Rey, Culver City, Inglewood. 1959, 1968, 1970. FRAGILE undated
Aerial--Cities & Communities--Westchester, Marina del Rey, Los Angeles International Airport 1962
Aerial--Cities & Communities -- Greater Westchester and vicinity including Los Angeles International Airport 1960
Aerial--Cities & Communities --unidentified (32) undated
Aerial--Cities & Communities --unidentified (39) undated
Aerial--Coastal Views (2) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--American Beauty Macaroni (1) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--Bill Kellas Ford (2) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--Boulevard Buick (2) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--Builder's Emporium (1) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--Busch Brewery (2) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--Caldwell, Inc. (1) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--Central Industrial Engineering Co. (1) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--Consolidated Trucking Company (1) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--Crenshaw Shopping Area (2) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--Familian Pipe and Supply Co. (1) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--FMC Corporation (1) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--Gluck Co. (1) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--Ideal Spring Co. (1) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--Kwikset Locks (1) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--Mead Packaging (1) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--Muller Bros... "World's Greatest Automotive Center" undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--Reliance Steel and Aluminum Co. (1) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--S. Roth Co. (1) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--Sepulveda Brewery, Van Nuys (3) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--Universal Paper Goods (1) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--Warner Brothers Studios (2) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--Western Way Manufacturing Company (1) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--Wheel Craft, Inc. (1) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--Whiteman Manufacturing Co. (1) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--Wholesale Electric Co. Associated (1) undated
Aerial--Commercial Buildings--Unidentified (6) undated
Aerial--Country Clubs--Denville Country Club (2), El Caballero Country Club (2) undated
Aerial--Hospitals--White Memorial Hospital (1) undated
Aerial--Sports Arena--Dodger Stadium (2) undated
Aerial-- Unidentified undated
Dickinson & Gillespie--Airplane (2) undated
Dickinson & Gillespie--Annual Picnic (1) 1923
Dickinson & Gillespie--Billboards & Signs (19) undated
Dickinson & Gillespie--Charts (3) undated
Dickinson & Gillespie--Contest check and envelopes (3) undated
Dickinson & Gillespie--Exhibits (3) undated
Dickinson & Gillespie--Offices (23) undated
Events: Christmas display with Reindeer, Santa Claus. Some photographs show Fritz Burns(16) 1959
Events: Hoo-Hoo Club Luncheon. Fritz Burns and other men 1956
Los Angeles Home Show. Photographs of women who participated in the show, judges, and Fritz Burns. (2) 1952
National Association of Real Estate Boards Covention. Fritz Burns speaking (1) 1952
National Association of Real Estate Boards Covention. Fritz and Gladys Burns receiving plaque from Mr. Cooper. (2) 1953
Republican rally. Fritz and Gladys Burns with Richard and Pat Nixon. (4) 1956
Unidentified events undated
Unidentified events undated
Wampas Baby Stars, publicity shot 1929
Oil Fields, Coastal (28) undated
Oil Fields, Coastal undated
Palisades del Rey--Photocopies of numbered photographs 1-111 undated
Palisades del Rey--Numbered photographs, 1-16 undated
Palisades del Rey--Numbered photographs, 17-33 undated
Palisades del Rey--Numbered photographs, 34-48 undated
Palisades del Rey--Numbered photographs, 49-63 undated
Palisades del Rey--Numbered photographs, 64-81 undated
Palisades del Rey--Numbered photographs, 82-100 undated
Palisades del Rey--Numbered photographs, 101-111 undated
Palisades del Rey--General views (2) undated
Palisades del Rey--General views (2) undated
Palisades del Rey--General views (2) undated
Palisades del Rey--General views (2) undated
Palisades del Rey--General views (2) undated
Palisades del Rey--General views (10) undated
Palisades del Rey--Aerial views (5) undated
Palisades del Rey--Billboard construction (1) undated
Palisades del Rey--Building on ocean (2) undated
Palisades del Rey--Cars lined up on road (1) undated
Palisades del Rey--Community Tennis Court (2) undated
Palisades del Rey--Del Rey Swim Club (3) undated
Palisades del Rey--"Diagramatical model of actual street improvements at Unit Supreme..." (4) undated
Palisades del Rey--Groups of people (10) undated
Palisades del Rey--Grand Pre Boulevard (5) undated
Palisades del Rey--Homes (3) undated
Palisades del Rey--Homes--Fritz Burns' house at 200 Waterloo Ave. (3) undated
Palisades del Rey--Inspiration Point (1) undated
Palisades del Rey--Lot Sales (2) undated
Palisades del Rey--Lot Sales (1) undated
Palisades del Rey--Lot Sales (1) undated
Palisades del Rey--Lot Sales (1) undated
Palisades del Rey--Lot Sales (1) undated
Palisades del Rey--Lot Sales (1) undated
Palisades del Rey--Lot Sales (1) undated
Palisades del Rey--Lot Sales (1) undated
Palisades del Rey--Lot Sales (1) undated
Palisades del Rey--Lot Sales (1) undated
Palisades del Rey--Lot Sales (1) undated
Palisades del Rey--Lumber delivery (2) undated
Palisades del Rey--Pacific Electric Street Car (1) undated
Palisades del Rey--Sales team doing calisthenics on the beach (1) undated
Palisades del Rey--Tug of war with large group of men (1) undated
Palisades del Rey--Venice Plunge group, men and boys (1) undated
Places: Alhambra Heights 1923
Places: Altadena undated
Places: Altadena Terrace undated
Places: Apartment House, interiors and exteriors. (10) undated
Places: Atlantic City boardwalk (1) undated
Places: Buenos Aires. Some pictures show Fritz and Gladys Burns. (5) , 1960
Places: Fritz Burns and Company--building with women posing in front. (2) undated
Places: Glendale Manor (4) undated
Places: Hawaii. Dedication ceremony. One picture shows Fritz Burns. (3) undated
Places: home interiors undated
Places: Los Angeles--Residential(4) undated
Places: Los Angeles--Western and Pico (4) 1904
Places: Los Angeles International Airport--development drawing. (1) undated
Places: Playa del Rey (10) 1885-1924
Miscellaneous photographs: Los Angeles Buccaneers, Fritz Burns's football team; Fritz Burns with company airplanes; banquet with Fritz Burns, Louis B. Mayer, Joe Scott, and Isidore Dockweiler, George Cochran, et alii; bus for inspecting Los Angeles Lutheran University proposed site; William Hannon; loose notes and correspondence re photographs undated
Places: Whittier undated
Places: unidentified undated
Portraits--Bartholomew undated
Portraits--Berryman undated
Portraits--Braman, R. undated
Portraits--Budinger (?) undated
Portraits--Burns, Fritz undated
Portraits--Burns, Fritz 1957
Portraits--Burns, Fritz --breaking ground near a sign for "The 100 Year Home"; calling the start of a children's swim race undated
Portraits--Burns, Fritz and Gladys undated
Portraits--Burns, Fritz and Gladys and others, Biltmore Hotel undated
Portraits--Burns, Fritz and Gladys and others, Cafe Caliente (Olvera Street) undated
Portraits--Burns, Fritz and Gladys and others, Hawaiian Village undated
Portraits--Burns, Fritz, Fred S. Bauersfeld, Maurice Liptz in Panorama City undated
Portraits--Burns, Fritz with Mitzi Gaynor in Hawaii (1); Mitzi Gaynor with Henry Kaiser in Hawaii (1) undated
Portraits--Burns, Fritz -- with unidentified people undated
Portraits--Burns, Gladys undated
Portraits--Burns [Robert?] undated
Portraits--Butler undated
Portraits--Cay undated
Portraits--Caye [?] undated
Portraits--Chambers undated
Portraits--Cherry undated
Portraits--Chesebro undated
Portraits--Cligg undated
Portraits--Culver, Harry C. undated
Portraits--Daly, Carroll J. undated
Portraits--Dawes undated
Portraits--Duffey undated
Portraits--Elliott undated
Portraits--Evans undated
Portraits--Farmer undated
Portraits--Friedlander undated
Portraits--Fulton, Roy undated
Portraits--Gammon, A.A undated
Portraits--Gammon, Harry undated
Portraits--Gentry undated
Portraits--George [?], Bill undated
Portraits--George [?], Bill undated
Portraits--Glasser undated
Portraits--Gunnerson undated
Portraits--Haddock undated
Portraits--Haggerty undated
Portraits--Hanson undated
Portraits--Harrison undated
Portraits--Heidt[?], George undated
Portraits--Heinfeld [Heinfelt?] undated
Portraits--Hjelt, George undated
Portraits--Horwitz, A. undated
Portraits--Hubbard undated
Portraits--Kemmerer, J.M. undated
Portraits--Kerfoot undated
Portraits--Le Sieur, Val undated
Portraits--Lillard undated
Portraits--Lomser [Lanser?] undated
Portraits--Lube [?] undated
Portraits--McCarthy undated
Portraits--McLeod undated
Portraits--Maclin undated
Portraits--Marriott undated
Portraits--Marshall undated
Portraits--Miller, S.J. undated
Portraits--Minshull undated
Portraits--Moore, E.E. undated
Portraits--Moss undated
Portraits--Moyer undated
Portraits--Murphy undated
Portraits--Neble undated
Portraits--Ofstad [?], Benjamin [?] undated
Portraits--Porter, Earl undated
Portraits--Peterson undated
Portraits--Phipps, Elmer undated
Portraits--Rawlings undated
Portraits--Reiss undated
Portraits--Rice, Andrew undated
Portraits--Robertson undated
Portraits--S...[?]--male undated
Portraits--S...[?]--male undated
Portraits--Sapora undated
Portraits--Saunders undated
Portraits--Shanton undated
Portraits--Sheridan undated
Portraits--Sullivan undated
Portraits--Valle undated
Portraits--Wallace undated
Portraits--Wardell undated
Portraits--Wellinger undated
Portraits--Womensen [?] undated
Portraits--unidentified females (8) unidentified
Portraits--unidentified males (4) undated
Portraits--unidentified males (4) undated
Portraits--unidentified males (4) undated
Portraits--unidentified males (9) undated
Portraits--unidentified people with airplanes (3) undated
Portraits--group of 4 men in an office (1) undated
Portraits--group of 3 men and a boy (1) undated
Portraits--group, college (?) football team "AAC 1916" [Negative for this print filed in the negatives subseries] 1916
Portraits--Group portraits (7) undated
Portraits--headshots, possibly Dickinson & Gillespie sales team members (7) undated
Portraits--unidentified (all 3.25 in. x 5.5 inches or smaller) undated
Subseries B Negatives 1916 1930s
Scope and Content Note
Coastal oil fields (16) 1930s
Portrait of group, college (?) football team "AAC 1916" [see the corresponding photograph filed under "Portraits--group, college (?) football team "AAC 1916" 1916
Aerial--Commercial Building--Unidentified undated
Woman modeling in interior of a home (film positive) undated
Subseries C Albums 1899-1980
Scope and Content Note
21 x 15 cm. bound. Photographs of Fritz Burns as a baby and child, in his military uniform (1918). Photograph of the dormitory at the University of Pennsylvania. Fritz Burn's Seaman's Identification Card 1918
26 x 18 cm. unbound. Photographs showing real estate scenes, including Boulevard Manor, Hollydale Gardens, Glendale Manor, Lincoln Park Manor (Pomona), and the Dickinson and Gillespie office 1922
14 x 12 cm. bound. Four photographs showing "Griffith Ranch." One of the photographs has the name of the ranch and the name "Fritz B. Burns" undated
Unbound. Photograph album of Dickinson and Gillespie's Palisades del Rey real estate operations; also photographs of Ocean Park 1924
Album with photographs and newspaper clippings re contemporary Los Angeles and national developments. Folder with loose photographs and clippings, originally in album. Compiled by William Hannon? 1979-1980
Westchester-Playa del Rey district plan. Separated from album in Box 8ov, Series 3 undated
Album with photographs re Dickenson & Gillespie company activities, Del Rey real estate development, Del Rey oilfields, Fritz Burns's professional football team (Los Angeles Bucaneers), Santa Monica, California, and groundbreaking ceremonies for Westchester campus of Loyola Marymount University. Two folders with loose photographs from album undated
Series 4 Newspaper Clippings 1899-1980
Scope and Content Note
Boulevard Manor 1922
Ellsworth Heights 1922
Glendale Manor 1922
Dickinson & Gillespie 1922 1923
Monteclair circa 1923
Los Angeles University 1927
Loyola University 1927
Toluca Wood 1940-1941
Westchester 1942 1951
Minnesota stories undated
Fritz B. Burns. Articles about Burns, his ranch, and his death 1943-1979
Airport 1945-1963
Panorama City 1948
Public Housing, Federal Housing Authority 1950-1952
"Home of Tomorrow" 1951
Loyola University and Fritz Burns 1963
Bunker Hill 1963-1965
Miscellaneous 1958-1978
Bound copies of Palisades del Rey Press 1926-1928
Series 5 Scrapbooks 1920s 1951
Scope and Content Note
Palisades del Rey scrapbook. Primarily printed pictures of Palisades del Rey. Some clippings and photographs 1920s
Unbound pages. Primarily newspaper clippings, many pertaining to debate over public housing in Los Angeles 1951