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.

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.

Collections within the David Rockefeller papers currently include personal and professional papers, office files, papers and files of associates, photographic material, as well as Rockefeller Family and Associates (Room 5600), General Files. Additional materials will be available as records are processed and open for research.

Currently consists of the Warren T. Lindquist papers, and the files of Olive Braggazi pertaining to David Rockefeller's art collection. Additional collections will be available as records are processed and open for research.

These records document Warren T. Lindquist's tenure as associate to David Rockefeller, from 1951 to 1977. He was particularly involved in Mr. Rockefeller's real estate investments and efforts to improve urban housing opportunities during the mid-twentieth century. Mr. Lindquist also served as Mr. Rockefeller's proxy with organizations focused on urban development in New York City and throughout the country, as reflected in the folders on the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association, the Embarcadero Center, Morningside Heights Inc., the Pacific Air Commerce Center, and Westbay Associates. Additionally, there are extensive files on Fazenda Bodoquena, a large cattle ranch in Brazil in which Mr. Rockefeller purchased an interest in 1962.

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.

This collection documents David Rockefeller's personal, professional and quasi-professional activities. Currently available material primarily consists of correspondence files maintained by the the Rockefeller family office, otherwise known as the Office of the Messrs. Rockefeller (Room 5600) as well as David Rockefeller's rolodex card files. Additional material will be available as records are processed and open for research.

This is a collection of books of clippings from newspapers and periodicals that document the interests and activities of David Rockefeller through his retirement from Chase Manhattan Bank in 1980.

David Rockefeller's staff at Chase Manhattan Bank maintained a 5-foot-wide card index of business, personal, civic, and philanthropic contacts, and a set of this card file was shared with, and further maintained by, the Rockefeller family office staff at Room 5600 in Rockefeller Center. David Rockefeller's network of contacts was estimated at 100,000 names documented across 200,000 cards.

The collection documents all aspects of the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association's activities from its creation, with the consolidation of the Downtown Manhattan Association and the Committee on Lower Manhattan in 1958, through its most active and successful years of 1958-1974, through the mid-1990s with its participation in the Lower Manhattan Project and its resulting updated Lower Manhattan Plan, and the role played by the DLMA as the supporting organization for Lower Manhattan's Business Improvement District (BID), the Alliance for Downtown New York. The material encompasses the meeting records of the Board of Directors, Members, Executive Committee, Planning Committee, and other prominent committees, a limited selection of officers files, financial records, membership records, projects, DLMA publications, and reports and studies.

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.

This series reflects primarily the activities of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., but significant documentation on the political and civic concerns of each of his sons is also present. In addition to extensive files on family support of the Republican Party on the national, state, and local level, separate folders exist on specific candidates, such as President Dwight D. Eisenhower, New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, and New York Governor Thomas Dewey. There are substantial files on family support for Nelson Rockefeller during his first gubernatorial campaign and immediately afterward. However, very little material exists in this series on his presidential effort in 1960.

The Cultural Interests series reflects the Rockefeller family's involvement and contributions in the areas of the arts, museums, parks, and historic restorations. The series contains correspondence between members of the Rockefeller family and the Family Office Staff on the one hand, and officials and members of the various institutions and organizations on the other. Most of the material concerns unsolicited appeals for donations. Some members of the family were also members of or were active in several of the organizations, and some of the correspondence reflects this activity.

The Office of the Messrs. Rockefeller (OMR) materials document the increasing role assumed by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. in the management of Rockefeller affairs and amply document his business and philanthropic affairs. They also chronicle the entrance of JDR Jr.'s sons, John D. 3rd, Nelson A., Laurance S., Winthrop, and David, into the world of business, philanthropy, civic leadership, and politics as they joined the office.

The files found in this series include correspondence by members of the Rockefeller family and their representatives and the officials of various institutions. Most of the material is unsolicited requests for aid. The material on institutions in which the family took an active interest, such as the International Houses, includes analysis, reports, general correspondence, contributions, and administration.

The Friends and Services series is primarily John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s personal correspondence with his friends and relations. Other files deal with a variety of support, service, and administrative activities such as the operation of the Family Office, family membership in social clubs, family doctors, management of family garages and stables, and arrangement for the biographies of John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

The Housing Files comprise 8 cubic feet of material covering the years 1896-1962. The bulk of the material relates to John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s activities in the housing field during the 1920s and 1930s. However, there are significant sections which detail the interests of Mr. Rockefeller, Sr. in Cleveland and New York City, and David Rockefeller in the Morningside Heights project. A few scattered files cover the activities of Messrs. John, Nelson, and Laurance Rockefeller in this field. Substantively, these files deal with Mr. Rockefeller, Jr.'s involvement with housing reform and housing projects during two distinct time periods: the period of great optimism and activity during the 1920s, and the period of destabilization and disengagement from the field after the coming of the New Deal and into the 1940s.

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.