Burr-Brown Corporation records

The Burr-Brown Corporation records contain the business records of the company, and the professional papers of founder Thomas R. Brown, Jr. Materials related both to the company and to the founder are intermixed throughout the collection. Formats include documents, notebooks, technical drawings, clippings, printed matter, ephemera, 3D objects, awards, memorabilia, photographs, and extensive audio recordings and digital media. The bulk of materials were formerly housed in three ring binders or collected in plastic folders and carefully labeled. The container list in this finding aid reflects the terminology used to label the binders and folders, for example "Semantics" and "Civics" which are Brown's own word choices. Series I, Business records include extensive management guides, authored by Brown, which include: core values, management philosophies, sales strategies, personnel decisions, annual plans, financial information, and operations strategies. This series include Board of Directors meeting minutes, annual reports, company newsletters, stock valuations, company and product acquisitions, and human resource concerns. Series II, Products and Prototypes contain technical drawing and notes for products produced and manufactured by Burr-Brown and research and development work for new product ideas. Also, catalogs, manuals, brochures from Burr-Brown and other companies. Series III, The Tucson Industrial Park Corporation was a real estate company owned by Brown and others that operated land and buildings adjacent to the Tucson International Airport which included the Burr-Brown campus. This series contains business records, photographs and maps. Series IV, Civics: Tucson community work, relates to Brown's community involvement, especially improvements to roads and transportation in Tucson and Arizona but also tax reform and other issues. Records relate to committee and board work, subject research, press and publicity materials and drafts of speeches. Brown's biographical materials and some of his more personal materials including: notebooks, course work, honors and awards, photographs and magazine and newspaper articles are found in Series V, however, related materials are found in other series including correspondence and writings which are embedded in subject and project files in series I-IV. Diplomas and certificates are also found in the oversize box described in Series VII. Series VI Audiovisual and digital media contains five subseries divided by format: digital media, audio cassettes, video cassettes, film, and magnetic audio tape. The bulk of the collection is quarter inch reel to reel magnetic audio recordings with over 55, 7-inch reels. Oversize materials in Series VII, contain items too large for a standard record carton. This includes posters, a large collection of full page newspapers, a payroll ledger and product diagrams. The following abbreviations are used in the container list: TRB: Thomas R. Brown; BBC: Burr-Brown Corporation; BBRC: Burr-Brown Research Corporation.