• Lloyd Wright (architect)
• Lloyd Wright (correspondence writer)
• Gurney Elwood Newlin (correspondence writer)
• A.K. Humphries (correspondence writer)
• Lloyd St. John (correspondence writer)
• Merle Armitage (correspondence writer)
• Boeing Airplane Company (client)

Boeing Airport, Burbank, California: Correspondence and other documents relating to Lloyd Wright's design

printed 1929 ?

- This group of correspondence, clippings and other documents was compiled by the architect, Lloyd Wright, for his own record while he was pursuing the commission for Boeing Airport, Burbank, Los Angeles County, California. He was not successful in obtaining the commission. The correspondence includes letters to and from Lloyd Wright, drafts for and carbon copies of these same letters, and telegrams to Lloyd Wright. Other documents include three newspaper clippings, an estimate and notes. Of the clippings, one reports on the beginning of work on Boeing Airport, the second announces a new meteorological station for pilots in the San Fernando Valley, and includes details of other aviation industry investments in the area, and the third is another account of the initiation of Boeing Airport. The latter clipping is folded up with a sheet noting the address of Lloyd St. John. Although the estimate is not identified by project name, it was probably prepared for Lloyd Wright's Boeing Airport proposal, which included an airport, manufacturing plant and other amenities, all mentioned in the estimate.

Ephemera include graphite, newsprint and telegrams, all on wove paper

sheet (smallest; irreg): 8,7 x 5,4 cm sheet (largest; irreg): 28,1 x 21,6 cm

DR1987:0865:001-023

• clippings
• correspondance
• financial record

- Several typescripts are on letterhead. The letter DR1987:0865:007 and its accompanying envelope both carry the logo of the Boeing Air Transport Co. One of the newspaper clippings was acquired folded within a sheet with notes (DR1987:0023:001-002). A brown envelope with a label and inscriptions identifying the previous contents as the Boeing airfield plot plan was acquired with the documents.

inscribed, dated, and signed - on the letters to Lloyd Wright, by the correspondent, in typescript, in various locations: with the date and the text of the letter; and in pen and brown ink or pen and black ink, in various locations: with signature inscribed - on some of the letters, by Lloyd Wright, in graphite, in various locations: with changes to the text of the letter imprinted and dated - on DR1987:0865:006 and DR1987:0865:019, throughout: with date and text of telegram inscribed - on DR1987:0865:009, by Lloyd Wright, in graphite, u.l. and t.: "MERLE HUMPHRY / AUSTIN CONSTRUCTION / LAYOUT OUT / WIRE / LETTER" signed - on DR1987:0865:015:002, by Lloyd Wright, in graphite, c.r.: "Lloyd W." and l.r.: "Ll W." inscribed - on DR1987:0865:020, by Lloyd Wright, in graphite, throughout: with text of estimate and with calculations imprinted - on DR1987:0865:021, DR1987:0865:022 and DR1987:0865:023:002, throughout: with text of article inscribed - on DR1987:0865:023:001, by Lloyd Wright, in graphite, t.: "MCCREA / LLOYD ST JOHN / 411 HOLLYWOOD / SECURITY BLD. / HOLLYWOOD / 411 HOLLY WOODS"

• architecture

© Eric Lloyd Wright