As David Rockefeller's first curator, Olive Bragazzi organized and described his ever-evolving art collection. Starting in the 1970s, Ms. Bragazzi conducted extensive research on the artists in Mr. Rockefeller's European art and Western hemisphere collections, which served as the basis for Volumes I and II of the five-volume David and Peggy Rockefeller Art Collection catalogue. These files contain Ms. Bragazzi's notes on individual artists, as well as general files on the development of Volumes I and II.

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 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 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 majority of this collection concerns Berent Friele's professional involvement in bettering relations between the United States and Brazil as an advisor on Latin America to Nelson A. Rockefeller during his tenure as governor of New York and later as U.S. Vice President. The collection also documents some of Friele's activities pertaining to or on behalf of David Rockefeller, focusing primarily on Latin America.

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

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 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.

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.

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.