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 Ford Foundation's Wilson McNeil Lowry papers are a pathway into the Humanities and The Arts effects on America in the 20th century.
Collection contains annual reports.
Primarily consists of Winthrop Rockefeller portraits, candids, and wedding photos.
The records of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation span the years 1956 to 2005, with the majority of the records from the late 1970s to the late 1990s. During this time, the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation was making grants to organizations that were based in Arkansas and only did business in Arkansas.
Record Group 7 Audio-Visual materials; Record Group 8 Arkansas Gazette and Democrat, and Record Group 9 Memorabilia are not available on microfilm, and are therefore not available at Rockefeller Archive Center.
Record Group 7 Audio-Visual materials; Record Group 8 Arkansas Gazette and Democrat, and Record Group 9 Memorabilia are not available on microfilm, and are therefore not available at Rockefeller Archive Center.
The Winthrop Rockfeller papers available at the Rockefeller Archive Center is comprised of three sets of records -- papers maintained by the Office of the Messrs. Rockefeller (Room 5600) pertaining primarily to Winthrop's speeches, publicity materials and personal and family correspondence; The microfilmed copy of papers available at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock consisting primarily of his Gubernatorial papers and Arkansas activities including Winrock Enterprises and Winrock Farms; and a small volume of family photographs.
The W. Kenneth Riland papers contain diaries, correspondence, campaign material, trial documents regarding Riland's tax evasion case, photographs, a scrapbook and assorted ephemera from various trips and events.
In general, each fellowship file contains an application form (or statement of financial need in the early years), letters of recommendation, a language competency form, transcripts, an indication of choice of graduate school, and questionnaires and survey material used to track the fellow's progress through graduate school and subsequent career. Approximately 50% of the Fellows responded to the 1977 questionnaire and 11% returned a 1997 summary status card. Form letters and correspondence regarding financial matters were not included in the scanning project. The collection includes 14,260 printed photographs of individual fellows and those are housed separately and are organized alphabetically by first letter of surname. Printed annual reports for the following years are part of the collection: 1993, 1995-98.
