Collection ID: FA312

Collection context

Background

Scope and Content:

The Business Interest series documents the Rockefeller Family's investments and financial involvement in a variety of industries, companies, and geographic areas, including banks, oil, iron mining, timber, railroads, Rockefeller Center, and South America.

The series contains correspondence between members of the Rockefeller family and the Family Office on the one hand, officers and employees of the various companies on the other. The correspondence concerns all manner of management, policy and financial decisions regarding the various investments.

The family members who figure most prominently in the papers are John D. Rockefeller, Sr., John D. Rockefeller, Jr., John D. Rockefeller 3rd, Nelson Rockefeller, Laurance Rockefeller, and David Rockefeller.

There is no material in this series dated later than 1961, but members of the Rockefeller family continue to maintain an interest and investments in a number of the businesses included in this series. The files on those particular business areas are closed. There are two exceptions to this policy. The file on Rockefeller Center, Inc. and Rockefeller Plaza are open. Files containing intimate financial information about these two firms are closed. All items recommended for closing shall remain closed for fifty years from the last date in this series, which is 1961.

Arrangement:

The files in this series are divided into 27 subseries of investments, as follows:

Platt-LePage Aircraft Company; Airlines; American Linseed Company; American Anglo Transvaal Company; Banks; Chase Safe Deposit Company; Bright Matter; China Industries, Inc.; Collins Brown Press; Colorado Fuel and Iron Company; Companies; Everett Timber and Investment Company; Fairway Farms; Filatures et Tissages Africains; International Business Machines, Inc.; Insurance; Marion Fruit Company; Marston and Company; Minnesota Iron Mines; New Furniture; Rockefeller Brothers, Inc.; Rockefeller Center, Inc.; Rockefeller Plaza; South America and Africa; Standard Oil Companies; Turck and Co. - Special Services; United States Steel Corporation.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Online content

Access

RESTRICTIONS:

Open for research with select materials restricted as noted. Brittle or damaged items are available at the discretion of RAC. Material in the Rockefeller family collections that provides the names, correspondence, or activities of living members of the Rockefeller family, and/or documents the net wealth of any Rockefeller family members, is restricted. Researchers interested in accessing digital media (floppy disks, CDs, DVDs, etc.) or audiovisual material (audio cassettes, VHS, etc.) in this collection must use an access surrogate. The original items may not be accessed because of preservation concerns. To request an access surrogate be made, or if you are unsure if there is an access surrogate, please contact an archivist.

LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
15 Dayton Avenue
Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591, United States
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