Agricultural Development Council records, Record Group 1, 1953-1980 47.17 Cubic Feet
This collection contains meeting minutes, personnel files, grant information, printed material, and photographs.
This collection contains meeting minutes, personnel files, grant information, printed material, and photographs.
Types of records include: meeting minutes.
The 35 boxes in this series cover the years 1898-1961. The Messrs. Rockefeller, Sr. and Jr., Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Abby Rockefeller Mauze, the five brothers, and their spouses are all represented in this series. Mr. Rockefeller, Jr., John D. 3rd, and Laurance S. Rockefeller are have the most connection to thse records.
The records of the Council on Foundations, Inc., which span the years 1949 to 1981, cover the years from the formation of the Council until Landrum R. Bolling's tenure as chief executive officer in the late 1970s. The bulk of the material in this collection, however, concerns the Council's response to tax reform efforts in the late 1960s and early 1970s that would have profound effects on foundations. Also documented is the Council's relationship with the Commission on Private Philanthropy and Public Needs (usually referred to as the Filer Commission), a privately funded panel formed in late 1973 to conduct a study of the source, scope, and impact of charitable giving in the United States.
The Charles E. Culpeper Foundation archives present a complete account of the foundation's activities in the years following the death of Charles E. Culpeper, during which the foundation devised and established its philanthropic mandate. The collection includes the Fiftieth Anniversary Report 1940-1990, a general overview of the foundation's involvement in the areas of health, education, arts and culture, and administration of justice, with a breakdown of funds provided for each field.
Davison Fund I records were kept by the Fund's treasurer and include minutes of trustee and committee meetings and financial materials.
This collection contains correspondence, dockets, financial reports, minutes, and manuals relating to the Davison Fund, Inc.
Kenneth N. Dayton's papers contain material on the nomination of a new president of the Rockefeller Foundation.
The Harold P. Fabian Papers contain minutes, correspondence, financial records, reports, legal documents, photographs, audio tapes, motion picture film, and clippings which record Fabian's involvement in and operation of the Snake River Land Company, the Teton Companies, and Jackson Hole Preserve, Inc. between 1927 and 1975. The papers are almost complete for the years 1927 to 1954. Correspondence comprises the bulk of the collection.
Ford Foundation records, Publications (Non-Grant Related), Accession 2017:050 consists of pamphlets, reprints, brochures, reports, conference papers, and other publications by the Ford Foundation or by authors involved in Ford Foundation projects.
The Boards represented in this series are the most important philanthropies that have been developed from the Rockefeller fortune: the Bureau of Social Hygiene; the China Medical Board of the Rockefeller Foundation and its successor, the China Medical Board, Inc.; the Davison Fund; the General Education Board; the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial; the Rockefeller Brothers Fund; the Rockefeller Foundation; the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now known as Rockefeller University); the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission; the Sealantic Fund; and the Spelman Fund of New York.
The records of the Foundation Center span the years 1922-2004, with the majority of the records dating from the mid-1950s, when the Center was created, to the early 1990s. Most of the material prior to 1956 comes from F. Emerson Andrews, the first president of the Foundation Center. Prior to 1956, Andrews had worked at the Russell Sage Foundation, and much of the correspondence relating to the Foundation Center was addressed to him there.
Correspondents include Barbara Blum; Herbert G. Birch; Orville G. Brim, Jr.; Urie Bronfenbrenner; Hillary Rodham Clinton; Lewis B. Cuyler; Charles Dollard; Jessie Emmet; Nevil Ford; Alice FitzGerald; Charlayne Hunter Gault; George J. Hecht; Mavis Hetherington; Jerome Kagan; Sheila Kamerman; Trude Lash; Emily McFarland; Leonard Mayo; Evelyn Moore; Kathleen Mortimer; Emil Pattberg; Stephen A. Richardson; Mary French Rockefeller; Milton J. E. Senn; Heidi Sigal; Chester Swinyard; Ruby Takanishi; Ray Valdivieso; George Wheatley; and Nicholas Zill.
The collection contains publications originally held in the Ford Foundation's library and archives. The subject matter of the materials reflects the work of the Foundation, the Fund for Adult Education, and the Fund for the Advancement of Education.
Records consist of correspondence, clippings, pamphlets, memoranda, manuscript drafts, and a ledger.
This material consists of administrative and program and policy information in the form of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and reports.
The J. George Harrar Papers mainly consist of material relating to Harrar's various activities outside The Rockefeller Foundation between 1958 and 1982. The bulk of the collection is made up of correspondence, but it also contains publications, speeches, clippings, awards, interviews, photographs, and books.
The records of the JDR 3rd Fund consist of correspondence, reports, publications, administrative material, financial records, records of meetings, and a wide array of non-textual material documenting the activities of the Fund's various programs. These records also contain large contact files, consisting of correspondence, brochures, and records of meetings related to organizations with which the Fund had no grant relationship.
Records include: Correspondence, reports, administrative records, grant submissions, meeting minutes, newspaper articles, photographs and gallery catalogs.
Includes grant files, administrative files, correspondence, reports, minutes, financial material, annual reports and a small selection of personal materials. The collection is not comprehensive. Due to routine file purges, this collection includes only the records of the final personal beneficiaries, Markle Scholars, and the communications program, along with assorted administrative files. Documentation of other grants exist only in the minutes, progress reports, and collected reprints.
This collection documents the private life and personal activities, largely philanthropic, of Abby Rockefeller Mauzé (1903-1976). The bulk of the material contained in the collection dates from before 1960.
The papers of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller primarily consist of correspondence, including personal correspondence to family and relatives, biographical materials; art collection files, and files pertaining to her philanthropic activities.
The papers of Blanchette Ferry Hooker Rockefeller (1909-1992), which span the years 1884-1994, document the various roles Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd played in her lifetime, including that of daughter, wife, mother, daughter-in-law, aunt, friend, philanthropist, art collector, and political fundraiser. The papers contain her personal and family correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia as well as the records generated by her philanthropic activities. They provide information on her ancestors; education; relationships with family members, friends, and associates; travels; and on her social concerns and benevolences. While the bulk of the papers deals with Mrs. Rockefeller's lifetime, some items relating to her forebears predate her birth. Due to shared interests and activities in many areas, Mrs. Rockefeller's papers parallel and complement the papers of her husband, John D. Rockefeller 3rd, which are also housed at the Rockefeller Archive Center and which are open to researchers.
The project files include grant administration records, correspondence, reports, grant actions, grant products, and other associated material that document the philanthropic work of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
This set of general files chronicles management of the philanthropic affairs of David Rockefeller during the period 1992-1996. when he was naturally beginning to curtail his activities.
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.
Rockefeller Foundation officers' diaries:
Types of records include: project files.
Rockefeller Foundation general correspondence:
The Foundation's archives include:
Types of records include: project files.
Rockefeller Foundation officers' diaries:
Correspondence of The Rockefeller Foundation consists principally of material not directly connected with an institutional grant. It includes: inter-office memoranda, correspondence between field officers and the home office, extracts from officers' diaries, forms and other material relating to fellowships; casual requests for information, employment, or aid; printed matter and letters of abuse received by the Foundation. As such, the General Correspondence provides insight into the day-to-day workings of the Foundation.
Types of records include: project and fellowship material.
Correspondence of The Rockefeller Foundation consists principally of material not directly connected with an institutional grant. It includes: inter-office memoranda, correspondence between field officers and the home office, extracts from officers' diaries, forms and other material relating to fellowships; casual requests for information, employment, or aid; printed matter and letters of abuse received by the Foundation. As such, the General Correspondence provides insight into the day-to-day workings of the Foundation.
Types of records include: project files.
Types of records include: project files.
Rockefeller Foundation general correspondence:
Treasurer's files include but are not limited to: grants, vouchers, cash books, financial reports, payments, appropriations, expenditures, trial balances, and related files.
Rockefeller Foundation general correspondence:
The microfilm contains minutes of the Foundation.
Types of records include: project files.
Rockefeller Foundation officers' diaries:
Rockefeller Foundation officers' diaries:
The Mideast Wheat Research and Training Project records contain general correspondence and administrative documents pertaining to the Turkish wheat stations and the various foundations and institutions connected to wheat research in Turkey during the 1970s. Correspondence, reports, and printed material detail the Center's wheat research work and plant breeding and its interactions with Turkish authorities and with other agricultural institutes and university agronomists. This collection documents the day-to-day work of the Center; for materials regarding the establishment and administration of the Wheat Research Center one should consult the files on Turkish Wheat Research in the Rockefeller Foundation project files, RG 1, Accession 83, Series 105 (804).
Primarily documents appropriations, with a small selection of financial records and audiovisual materials.
Important Subjects
Contains the correspondence and reports of the International Health Board/International Health Division (IHB/D) of the Rockefeller Foundation, including the Rockefeller Institute Virus Laboratories.
Types of record include: recorder cards.