Correspondence and manuscripts of Van Doren, consisting of letters, poems, short stories, novels, plays, radio broadcast transcripts ("Invitation to Learning"), diaries, critical works, proofs, and printed works. Correspondents include Louise Bogan, Philip Booth, Babette Deutsch, Richard Eberhart, T.S. Eliot, John Gould Fletcher, Herbert Gorman, E.W. Howe, Robinson Jeffers, Archibald MacLeish, Louis MacNeice, Edgar Lee Masters, Lewis Mumford, Hyam Plutzik, Allen Tate, and Louis Zukovsky. Also, extensive correspondence with Robert Lax and Thomas Merton, as well as manuscripts by these two authors.

Personal documents, correspondence, photographs, audiocassettes, and printed material of the filmmaker, film writer, and educator Cecile Starr (1921-2014).

Chiefly black and white photographs documenting Leo Smit's life and career in music.

Seventeen black and white photographs of storefront churches in Buffalo including interior shots during services and exterior shots of the buildings. This small collection chiefly focuses on the musical activities during the church services.

Collection includes individual and group portraits of immediate family, family homes, as well as images of relatives and extended family.

This series of photographs, originating from the Rockefeller family office (Room 5600), comprehensively documents Nelson A. Rockefeller's life and career including his personal, professional and political activities. Family and personal photographs include invidividual formal and informal portraits, group portraits and events, as well as Rockefeller family homes, a selection of images of his art collection, and travel prints. There is a large selection of images of dignitaries and friends, as well as photographic documentation of Nelson Rockefeller's business activities, philanthropic activities, and government service. The series also includes a wide variety of images of gubernatorial appearances and campaign activities as well as photographs pertaining to Nelson's service as Vice President of the United States.

Types of records includes: photographs.

The John D. Rockefeller Jr. family photographs, Series 1005 photographically documents all aspects of John D. Rockefeller Jr's life and career including family life, philanthropic activities and events, business activities and associates, real estate interests, and religious interests. The family-related images include individual and group portraits of his immediate family -- namely his wife Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and their six children -- Abby Mauze, John D. Rockefeller 3rd., Winthrop Rockefeller, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Laurance S. Rockefeller and David Rockefeller, as well as a selection of relatives. The collection also contains images of the Rockefeller family homes, primarily their residences in New York and Seal Harbor, Maine as well as images of family trips and travel throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the American West.

This collection is entirely made up photographs which document the activities of the Rockefeller Foundation during the years 1905-1980.

Letters, notes, programs, photographs, and printed materials. The collection is comprised primarily of handwritten correspondence between Reiner and notable music figures including Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, Darius Milhaud, Arthur Nikisch. Arnold Schoenberg, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, and Leo Weiner. Also of note, letters from writer and conductor Gian Francesco Milpiero and his wife Auna detailing wartime conditions in Italy (1946).