Important subjects covered in this collection include agronomy, ecology, population, genetics and plant breeding, agricultural development of underdeveloped nations, agricultural research institutes, grasslands and Grasslands Conferences.
The collection includes excerpts from the travel and laboratory diaries (1931-1944) of Rockefeller Foundation personnel, three volumes of correspondence (1940-1970), and a volume of Downs's trip diary with interview notes (1971-1976).
Important subjects in this collection include Rose's election to Peabody College Presidency, Peabody Fund Award, International Health Division, travels, and fishing.
The Wallace Buttrick collection covers the period from 1888 to 1926.
Each bulletin often contains 4 or 5 articles spanning a wide range of Foundation funded projects.
Treasurer's files include but are not limited to: grants, vouchers, cash books, financial reports, payments, appropriations, expenditures, trial balances, and related files.
Currently contains biographical files.
Rockefeller Foundation staff files, as well as select files of General Education Board (GEB) and Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial (LSRM) staff. Often includes: minutes and appointments, appointment history, personal history, correspondence, compensation, budget appropriations, field reports, travel requests and associated documentation.
This collection includes the Rockefeller Foundation Quarterly Bulletin, and subsequent Quarterly Reports from 1927-2005.
Types of records include: project and fellowship material.
Types of records include: project files.
Types of records include: project files.
Types of records include: project files.
Contains grant administration records.
Grant administraiton files and associated correspondence.
Types of records include: project files.
Types of records include: project files as well as program and policy files.
Project files including grant actions, reports, assessments, and associated administrative records.
Types of records include: project files and related material.
Types of records include: project files.
Types of records include: project files.
Types of records include: projects files and related material.
Types of records include: project and fellowship material.
Project files including grant actions, reports, assessments, and associated administrative records.
Grant administration files and related material.
Gramt administration files and related material.
Contains grant administration files.
Grant administration files and related material.
Contains grant administration records.
Grant administration files and related material.
Contains grant administration records.
Contains grant administration records.
The bulk of this series is correspondence. Records also include minutes, evaluations, and supplementary material of a general nature about the Conflict in International Relations/International Relations program, as well as documentation of grants awarded and fellowship files. Many of the grant and fellowship files are enriched by supplementary material, which may be in the form of publications, papers, reports, agendas or minutes of conferences, books, or other printed material. The supplementary material often contains the fruit that has resulted from a grant or fellowship.
Project files including grant actions, reports, assessments, and associated administrative records.
Contains staff program files and grant administration files.
Types of records include: correspondence, memoranda, and organizational materials.
Contains speeches and remarks prepared and given by Richard W. Lyman at various seminars, conferences and events, as well as Rockefeller Foundation Board meetings and celebrations during the period 1987-1988.
This collection is entirely made up photographs which document the activities of the Rockefeller Foundation during the years 1905-1980.
The Rockefeller Foundation Pamphlet Collection consists of 41 archival boxes and approximately 23 cu. ft. of records. The Rockefeller Foundation maintained a vast collection of published pamphlets, academic papers, book manuscripts, magazine articles, and other booklets that reference the Foundation or members of the Rockefeller family or were created by RF leaders, employees, or grantees. The pamphlets date from 1878 to 1988, with the majority containing dates between 1935 and 1975.
The Rockefeller Foundation maintained a vast collection of published pamphlets, academic papers, book manuscripts and program reports and summaries, or other booklets that reference the Foundation or members of the Rockefeller family or were created by RF leaders, employees, or grantees.
The Rockefeller Foundation maintained a vast collection of published pamphlets, academic papers, book manuscripts, magazine articles, and other booklets that reference the Foundation or members of the Rockefeller family or were created by RF officers, staff, or grantees
The Foundation's archives include:
Rockefeller Foundation officers' diaries:
Rockefeller Foundation officers' diaries:
Rockefeller Foundation officers' diaries:
Rockefeller Foundation officers' diaries:
Rockefeller Foundation officers' diaries:
Types of records include: grant and fellowship material.
Open records in this record group primarily consist of the Decorations.
Record Group 16 includes: Minutes and Annual Reports; Officers' Actions; Documents of Record; and Grants and Expenditures.
The microfilm contains minutes of the Foundation.
Contains the correspondence and reports of the International Health Board/International Health Division (IHB/D) of the Rockefeller Foundation, including the Rockefeller Institute Virus Laboratories.
Types of records include: correspondence, reports, photographs, newspaper articles, and oversized architectural plans.
Rockefeller Foundation general correspondence:
Rockefeller Foundation general correspondence:
Rockefeller Foundation general correspondence:
Correspondence of The Rockefeller Foundation consists principally of material not directly connected with an institutional grant. It includes: inter-office memoranda, correspondence between field officers and the home office, extracts from officers' diaries, forms and other material relating to fellowships; casual requests for information, employment, or aid; printed matter and letters of abuse received by the Foundation. As such, the General Correspondence provides insight into the day-to-day workings of the Foundation.
Correspondence of The Rockefeller Foundation consists principally of material not directly connected with an institutional grant. It includes inter-office memoranda; correspondence between field officers and the home office; extracts from officers' diaries, forms and other material relating to fellowships; casual requests for information, employment, or aid; printed matter; and letters of abuse received by the Foundation. As such, the General Correspondence provides insight into the day-to-day workings of the Foundation.
Correspondence of The Rockefeller Foundation consists principally of material not directly connected with an institutional grant. It includes: inter-office memoranda, correspondence between field officers and the home office, extracts from officers' diaries, forms and other material relating to fellowships; casual requests for information, employment, or aid; printed matter and letters of abuse received by the Foundation. As such, the General Correspondence provides insight into the day-to-day workings of the Foundation.
Rockefeller Foundation general correspondence:
Correspondence of The Rockefeller Foundation consists principally of material not directly connected with an institutional grant. It includes: inter-office memoranda, correspondence between field officers and the home office, extracts from officers' diaries, forms and other material relating to fellowships; casual requests for information, employment, or aid; printed matter and letters of abuse received by the Foundation. As such, the General Correspondence provides insight into the day-to-day workings of the Foundation.
Comprised of photographs separated from the paper collection at the time of micfofilming.
Contains reports, surveys and collected papers from Field Staff of the Rockefeller Foundation, International Health Board/Division, and China Medical Board. Also includes a selection of Officers Actions, Minutes, Board and Program reports and publications.
Records often include administrative and professional correspondence, reports, studies, surveys, and documentation of office or laboratory activites.
The International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation maintained an office in Paris from 1917 as the headquarters for the work of the Commission for the Prevention of Tuberculosis in France. In 1922, anticipating the transfer of the tuberculosis work to the French, and the expansion of work in Europe, the Board agreed to share space and administrative expenses with the Rockefeller Foundation's Division of Medical Education. The Nursing Survey of the IHB was to be carried on from the same location. Other administrative units of the Foundation concerned with work in Europe used the same office.
The New Delhi Field Office records (RG 6.7) of the Rockefeller Foundation Archives document the operation of the office and the programs it administered in the medical, agricultural, and social sciences. The records span the dates 1935 to 1976, but 90% of the record group dates from the period 1956 to 1973 and relates to the Indian Agricultural Program (IAP), operated by the RF's Natural Sciences and Agriculture Division. The IAP records provide a comprehensive account of the RF's role in establishing an international collaborative program of technical assistance. They also constitute an important source for the study of the history of modern agriculture and agricultural education in India.
The records include correspondence, conference proceedings, financial materials, annual reports, fellowships material, officers diaries, and personnel records.
Important Subjects
The Belem Field Office records document the activities of the Belem Virus Laboratory from 1954 to 1970. Records consist of administrative and professional correspondence relating to laboratory operations, research activities, and communications and cooperation with researchers at other virus labs and research organizations, particularly in Latin America, Trinidad, and the U.S.
The Mideast Wheat Research and Training Project records contain general correspondence and administrative documents pertaining to the Turkish wheat stations and the various foundations and institutions connected to wheat research in Turkey during the 1970s. Correspondence, reports, and printed material detail the Center's wheat research work and plant breeding and its interactions with Turkish authorities and with other agricultural institutes and university agronomists. This collection documents the day-to-day work of the Center; for materials regarding the establishment and administration of the Wheat Research Center one should consult the files on Turkish Wheat Research in the Rockefeller Foundation project files, RG 1, Accession 83, Series 105 (804).
Consists of fellowship files and associated fellowship recorder cards.
Types of record include: recorder cards.
Fellowship files.
Contains the papers of Rockefeller Foundation presidents, vice presidents and other executive officers.
Contains documents of record.
This collection consists of awards, memorabilia, artwork, certificates, plaques and other objects.
The preponderance of the collection consists of various summaries of the Rockefeller Foundation and GEB grant administration files prepared by the Foundation staff for use by senior staff and Foundation counsel as they responded to written questions from the Cox and Reece investigations and as they prepared for Dean Rusk's testimony at the Cox committee hearing.
Currently contains Communications Office photographs.
Contains slides, prints and other still images. Primarily documents activities in Brazil, Mexico and the Philippines. Images and associated correspondence also include selections made for use in several annual reports, newsletters, and select other publications and reports as well as images of staff, officers, trustees and events.
Primarily documents appropriations, with a small selection of financial records and audiovisual materials.
The scope and breadth of the Biographical File is inconsistent. Some files are rich, while others are sparse.
Consists of films, video and audio materials.
This material consists of administrative and program and policy information in the form of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and reports.
Records include: correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and reports.
The collection comprehensively documents the philanthropic activities of the Rockefeller Foundation through available records in the areas of projects (grants), fellowships, general correspondence, administration, program and policy, board minutes and officers' actions, China Medical Board records, the International Health Board/Division (IHB/IHD), the activities of a variety of the Foundation's field offices, as well as officers' diaries, oral histories, and associated photographs and audiovisual materials.
This small collection consists only of Robert Winter's diary.
Films documenting Robert H. Kokernot's scientific work in Africa for the Rockefeller Foundation.
This collection consists of Richard Lyman's personal papers with content focused primarily on his work with the Rockefeller Foundation, including but not limited to program reviews and reports, board files and administrative records as well as policy papers and historical sketches.
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 Nelson C. Davis Collection will be of interest both to the historian of medical research and of medical education. The lecture notes and class papers prepared by Dr. Davis at all levels of his training have been preserved in this collection. Also included are drafts of papers, some of them unpublished, at various stages of preparation, reprints of his published articles, and a wide variety of supporting research materials (such as reprints and periodicals), many taken from Portuguese- or Spanish-language publications. A substantial portion of his laboratory diary (kept at Bahia from 1928 to 1933) can be found in this collection as well as a number of field notebooks and records of experiments. Personal correspondence, however, has been rather scantily preserved.
Types of records include: correspondence, obituaries, reprints, and photographs.
Types of records include: correspondence, memos, reports, diaries, and interviews.
The material in the Mary E. Ferguson papers deals with the research, writing, and publication of "China Medical Board - Peking Union Medical College: A Chronicle of Fruitful Collaboration, 1914-1951," published in New York, 1970. The strength of the collection lies in the primary source documents: interviews with former staff at the Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), correspondence relating to the book's conception through publication, and reports of China during the Japanese occupation and after nationalization in 1951. Much of the research correspondence had been photocopied from the files of the China Medical Board, Inc., and the Rockefeller Foundation. (The book is an administrative history of PUMC, and most of the research material deals with the staff and administration of the institution.)
Type of records include: Reports, publications, newspaper articles, correspondence, reprints, speeches, and a manuscript
This collection documents various conferences, meetings, and workshops attended by Lincoln Chen, both during his tenure at the Rockefeller Foundation and at the Global Equity Initiative. The files include agendas, participant lists, articles and pre-readings, promotional information, and notes.
Important subjects in this collection are Argentina - Instituto de Bacteriologia, Buenos Aires; Argentina - nursing school, Rosario; Argentina - political situation, especially as it affected universities; Chile - Quinta Normal Health Center; disease control - malaria, especially in the Lurin Valley, Peru; disease control - yellow fever, especially in Bolivia and Peru; Ecuador - National Institute of Hygiene, Guayaquil; epidemiology - general; epidemiology - malaria; epidemiology - yellow fever; insecticides - Paris green, DDT and others; Peru - Ica Health Center; public health - administration; public health - nursing; Russia - general commentary after two trips; and South America - life and customs, general commentary.
Important subjects in this collection include: rural schools, race relations, and New Orleans history. Among the correspondents are Jackson Davis, Edmund E. Day, Edwin Embree, Abraham Flexner, Raymond B. Fosdick, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Louis Shores, S. L. Smith, and Anson Phelps Stokes.
The Lawrence B. Dunham Papers document the wide range of activities in which Dunham engaged during his lifetime. The papers include correspondence, memoranda, reports, drafts of speeches, clippings, pamphlets, and a scrapbook. Most of this material postdates 1934. Approximately one-quarter of this collection consists of private correspondence; another quarter of it covers Dunham's tenure on the Domestic Relations Court of New York City. There are no separate items regarding Dunham's association with the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, and his work as Director of the Bureau of Social Hygiene is not amply documented here. Users of this collection are advised to supplement their research on any of Dunham's activities for which separate folders exist by examining the correspondence folders covering the same period.
