This series photographically documents David Rockefeller's life and career including his business activities, his philanthropic activities, government service and related events. The material also includes a wide variety of individual portraits and informal and candid shots of David Rockefeller, as well as individual and group portraits of his immediate family and relatives. The holdings also include a vast collection of David Rockefeller's travel as well as photographs of David with many business and political dignitaries and heads of state.

Consists primarily of albums, portraits, and family photographs. Additional material will be available as records are processed and open for research.

The albums in this collection primarily contain images of David Rockefeller (DR) with his family, friends, personal office staff, or Chase Manhattan Bank colleagues during his travels throughout the globe. A second common album theme is DR with Peggy, his wife, at one of their homes: Hudson Pines in Pocantico Hills, New York; their townhouse on East 65th Street in Manhattan; Ringing Point in Seal Harbor, Maine; or Colombier, on St. Bart's, in the Caribbean. However, there are also hundreds of images from DR's childhood and from his service in Europe during World War II.

The 1962-1976 general files chronicle management of the philanthropic affairs of the third generation of the Rockefeller family primarily Abby Rockefeller Mauze, John D. Rockefeller 3rd, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Laurance S. Rockefeller, Winthrop Rockefeller, and David Rockefeller.