RG 4, LSR's Snapshot Files, contains LSR's personal photos, relating especially to his family, houses, friends and activities, travel, and resort developments. The Snapshot Files label reflects the smaller format of the prints (up to 5" x 7") and their grouping into discrete sets of prints and negatives, which are housed together in individual (and sometimes in their original) photo envelopes.

From an early age, Laurance S. Rockefeller (LSR) was an avid photographer, and his photograph collection reflects this appreciation, along with the broad range of his activities and interests. The LSR Photographs collection is sorted into several component groupings, loosely based on format, storage location (home or office), or use (e.g., Photo Reference files), at the time his collection was arranged and catalogued.

Types of records include: photographs.

Collection is comprised of files pertaining to the preparation, production, and promotion of the South Africa UPDATE Series. The Ford Foundation initiated the UPDATE Series project in order to update the South Africa: Time Running Out report (SATRO) that was published in 1981 by the Study Commission on U.S. Policy Towards Southern Africa. The series consists of five monographs. Each book focuses on a particular theme regarding political developments in South Africa during the 1980s. Subjects covered in the series include international relations between South Africa and the United States, politics in the region of Southern Africa, political activism of black South Africans; reforms made to the Apartheid system, and the state of civil rights in South Africa.

The collection primarily consists of grant files, administrative records and financial records.

Rockefeller Foundation general correspondence:

The papers of urbanist, journalist, author and people-watcher William H. Whyte, which date from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s, relate primarily to his projects and research. The collection contains a vast amount of material on Whyte's work with easements as well as his various film projects. Materials on studies of pedestrian behavior and city dynamics conducted as part of the "Street Life Project", including Whyte's research on city social life as well as human and vehicular movement patterns, are also a prominent part of the collection.

Acadia, State Parks, Bridges, Maine, National Parks, Road Construction.

The files in this series were created in the course of acquiring, managing, and disseminating pieces in Nelson A. Rockefeller's extensive art collection.

Subseries FV primarily contains financial vouchers documenting the activities of John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller Jr. in the late 19th and early 20th century.