Types of records include: blueprints, photographs, and maps. Images document the Harkness Family, Harkness House, Harkness Fellows. This series also contains a variety of material separated from the body of the early Commonwealth Fund grant records including grants in public health, rural hositals and disease research (FA290 Commonwealth Fund Grants, SG 1, Series 18.1) as well as the Division of Publications (FA285 SG 1, Series 13).
Primarily contains program files, grant administration files, task force files and officers files.
Primarily contains program files, grant administration files, Board records, and officers files.
Primarily contains program files, grant administration files, Board records, officers files, photographs and audiovisual materials.
Barry C. Smith served as General Director of the Commonwealth Fund, 1920-1947. During this period the reports were officially titled as Report of the General Director to the Directors of the Commonwealth Fund. Beginning in 1948, the offical title became known as Report of the President and Staff to Directors of the Commonwealth Fund.
The Reference Files consist of ready-reference materials, primarily publications and articles, orginally compiled for the Commonwealth Fund Library.
The Malcolm P. Aldrich papers primarily serve to provide historical context to the work and activities of the Commonwealth Fund. The series includes historical sketches of the Harkness Fellowship Program, as well as the Fund's Publications department. The records also include select Board of Directors files as well as program reviews and recommendations. Aldrich also served as the executor of the Harkness estate, and the series contains a variety of historical files pertaining to the Harkness family.
Index card files documenting early grants, public heath fellowships, and the English Mental Hygiene Program. Portions of these card files also document subject files, general files and rural hospitals.
