YMCA Press Institutional records, correspondence with prominent public figures.

An extensive collection of research files.

The Raymond L. Thompson Papers relate to the 310th Infantry, 78th Division of the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I, in which Thompson served as an officer of operations - regimental intelligence. He obtained the rank of captain. The collection consists of official and personal accounts of the 310th's involvement in the war, photographs of the regiment, memorandums and field orders it received, and intelligence maps and reconnaissance photographs. The collection also includes some of Capt. Thompson's personal military papers and correspondence dating from August 1917 through June 1919. Among these letters and papers are Thompson's military identity card, his physical exam form, "issued equipment" documents, and his discharge papers.

This collection is comprised of 7 boxes of photographs documenting travel to Asia, North Africa, Europe, the South Pacific, and Hawaii. Included in the collection are nine glass plate negatives, twelve stereocards, numerous albumen prints, and three Edward Curtis photogravures.

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.

Rockefeller Foundation general correspondence:

Rockefeller Foundation general correspondence:

This collection contains the records of the Research in Contemporary Cultures project (1947-1953) begun by Ruth Benedict at Columbia University, and carried out by Margaret Mead at Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History after Benedict's death in 1948. The records of three successor projects, Studies in Soviet Culture (1948-1952), Studies in Contemporary Culture (1951-1952), and and Study Program of Human Health and the Ecology of Man (1954-1956) are also included. The purpose of these projects was anthropological study at a distance of global cultures inaccessible for direct observation, in an attempt to establish the "national character" of countries of geopolitical interest to the United States government.