The papers of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller primarily consist of correspondence, including personal correspondence to family and relatives, biographical materials; art collection files, and files pertaining to her philanthropic activities.

This collection documents the private life and personal activities, largely philanthropic, of Abby Rockefeller Mauzé (1903-1976). The bulk of the material contained in the collection dates from before 1960.

Contains minutes of Board of Trustees meetings, general correspondence, grant files, fellowship files, training program records, workshop and seminar files, and publications. Subjects include agricultural development, agricultural economics, agriculture and politics, archaeology in Burma, farm mechanization, the education of farmers, land use, and rural development.

This collection contains meeting minutes, personnel files, grant information, printed material, and photographs.

Record Group 2 of the Agricultural Development Council collection primarily contains Fellowship files, administrative records of the Fellowship Program, Core Program files, records of both the Regional Research and Training Program (RRTP) and the Research and Training Network (RTN) as well as conference, seminar and workshop files and papers. Of particular note, there is also a small volume of Board of Trustees files and Field Office Staff reports.

The collection contains reprints, reports, remarks, addresses, correspondence, news clippings, articles, and other materials.

Collection contains the papers of Alberta Arthurs, a consultant in the cultural and philanthropy fields and a former Director of the Arts and Humanities Division at the Rockefeller Foundation. Most of the papers regard Arthurs' career in philanthropy from when she departed the Rockefeller Foundation in 1996 to about 2006. Papers, speeches, drafts, notes, proposals, research materials, correspondence, photographs, and conference materials provide evidence of the various projects Arthurs managed and supported during this time period. Some of the key focuses of these initiatives and studies include the relationship between nonprofit and for-profit organizations within the arts field, cultural policy, cultural diplomacy, the relationship between culture and development, the role of emerging technologies within the arts, communication and convening in the arts field, and convening for cultural policy.

Includes correspondence between Ms. Alice Calaprice and Rockefeller University faculty member Abraham Pais and family, as well as a reprint of Pais's publication and obituary.

The Alvin Moscow papers relate to his work on the book, "The Rockefeller Inheritance" (1977).

The collection primarily consists of grant files, administrative records and financial records.

The collection contains correspondence, memoranda, quarterly reports, and publications of the AIA and its various programs, as well as administrative materials.

Contains one handwritten sketch accompanied by handwritten room titles written on stationary with "Winrock Farms" letterhead.

Records primarily document the Council's grants, fellowships, programs and administration.

Records include: Correspondence, reports, administrative records, grant submissions, meeting minutes, newspaper articles, photographs and gallery catalogs.

Record Group 2 documents conference and seminar planning, conference participants and papers, primarily spanning the 1970s and 1980s. Also represented are a variety of festival files focusing primarily on the Festival of India in the 1980s.

Record Group 4 primarily consists of Fellowship and Training Program administration records and supporting documentation.

Record Group 5 is comprised of the grant administration files of the Asian Cultural Council, 1958-2007, including such files of the Asian Cultural Program of the JDR Fund which were inherited by the Council following the dissolution of the JDR Fund in 1979.

Photographs, program booklets, publicity materials and videos documenting the events, programs, awards, and grantees of the Hong Kong Arts Program from 1986 through 2014.

Records primarily include corrrespondence, meeting records funding files, select grants, as well documentation for and planning of the Festival of India. Festival of India files can also be found in RG 2 (FA1400).

In late 1959, The Asia Society moved into its new headquarters at Asia House, 112 East 64th Street, New York City. The second floor of the seven-floor building housed two galleries running the width of the house, one in front and one in back - in future, to be known as Asia House Gallery.

All records in the collection have been received from the Asia Society New York office, and document the activities of the Society through the New York office from inception in 1956 though the 1990s. Records documenting the activities of regional offices including those in Houston, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. are minimal.

The Barry C. Smith papers include Commonwealth Fund Annual Reports (1919-1941), personal and professional correspondence and a variety of personal items.

The Benjamin E. Washburn papers contain few items of a personal nature. Consisting of reports, correspondence, scrapbooks, diaries, photographs, books and journals, the papers concern Washburn's employment with the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission (1913-1914) and the International Health Board/Division (1915-1939).

The Bernice Kert papers relate to her work researching and writing her biography of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: The Woman in the Family (1993). The collection contains background research and reference materials, copies of archival materials, correspondence (1986-2001), research notes, manuscript drafts, and a series of recorded interviews with family members and other associates. The collection also includes Kert's diary for 1990, when she traveled to Russia to attend a conference on Hemingway.

Contains correspondence, memoranda and committee records pertaining to the Parent-Teacher Association at the Lincoln School of Teachers College, Columbia University. Collection was collected and compiled by Bertha G. Brennan.

The papers of Blanchette Ferry Hooker Rockefeller (1909-1992), which span the years 1884-1994, document the various roles Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd played in her lifetime, including that of daughter, wife, mother, daughter-in-law, aunt, friend, philanthropist, art collector, and political fundraiser. The papers contain her personal and family correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia as well as the records generated by her philanthropic activities. They provide information on her ancestors; education; relationships with family members, friends, and associates; travels; and on her social concerns and benevolences. While the bulk of the papers deals with Mrs. Rockefeller's lifetime, some items relating to her forebears predate her birth. Due to shared interests and activities in many areas, Mrs. Rockefeller's papers parallel and complement the papers of her husband, John D. Rockefeller 3rd, which are also housed at the Rockefeller Archive Center and which are open to researchers.

Papers of John B. Trevor relating to Elon Hooker and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. including addresses, remarks, correspondence, associated newspaper clippings, and pamphlets.

This collection primarily contains transcripts, audiotapes, and notes of interviews conducted by author Cary Reich during research for the first volume, and anticipated second volume, of "The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller." Additionally, it contains partial audiotaped interviews for Reich's New York Times expose "The Creative Mind: The Innovator," which appeared on April 21, 1985, as well as for other financial articles.

The Charles A. Strong Papers document the thought of philosopher and psychologist Charles Strong (1862-1940) and his friendships with George Santayana (1863-1952), William James (1842-1910), and a circle of academic philosophers known as the "critical realists". The critical realists worked within the school of American pragmatism originated by Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) and popularized by William James. Also present in the collection are two letters from American novelist, Edith Wharton (1924, n.d.) and a small group of letters (1921-1935) to Strong from the English writer, Violet Paget (Vernon Lee, 1856-1935), documenting the close friendship between the two expatriates. The papers span the years 1877 to 1939, but the bulk of the material dates between 1906 and 1939. The collection was transferred to the Rockefeller Archive Center in 1994 by the donor.

The Charles Burton Fahs Papers contain materials on the life and career of Charles Burton Fahs, as well as personal materials about his family, including parents Sophia Lyon Fahs and Charles Harvey Fahs, wife Jamie Ross Fahs, and children James Harvey Fahs and Barbara Ruth Fahs Charles.

The Charles E. Culpeper Foundation archives present a complete account of the foundation's activities in the years following the death of Charles E. Culpeper, during which the foundation devised and established its philanthropic mandate. The collection includes the Fiftieth Anniversary Report 1940-1990, a general overview of the foundation's involvement in the areas of health, education, arts and culture, and administration of justice, with a breakdown of funds provided for each field.

The Charles Uht Photograph Collection documents collections of art and belongings acquired by Nelson A. Rockefeller, Laurance S. Rockefeller, David Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller 3rd and Rodman Clark Rockefeller.

The China Medical Board, Inc. Collection, 1914-1971, consists almost exclusively of material dealing with the Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), 1918-1951. The Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) appears to have sent to its financial supporters, first the China Medical Board and then the China Medical Board, Inc., much of its correspondence, memos and reports, to keep those in New York informed as to what was going on in China. As the ownership of the buildings and grounds of the Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) was transferred from the CMB to the CMB, Inc., many records were also transferred. This accounts for many pre-1928 documents found in the files.

Includes correspondence of the New York office, administrative and bacteriology, public health, health stations, medical education, medical libraries, midwives, nursing and nursing education, pharmacy, radiology, religion, surgery, World War II, and Chinese politics and government. Types of records include: reports, publications, newspaper articles, correspondence, reprints, architectural drawing, photographs, video tapes.

Records include: grants and fellowships, officers' files, program files, correspondence and administration files.

Type of records include: Reports, publications, newspaper articles, correspondence, reprints, architectural drawings and maps, and photographs.

Type of records include: Reports, publications, newspaper articles, correspondence, reprints, architectural drawing, photographs, video tapes. The Finance Committee Files includes documentation for the Cox & Reece Hearings.

Type of records include: Reports, publications, newspaper articles, correspondence, reprints, photographs, and memorobilia

The Claude H . Barlow collection covers the period from 1919 to 1964. Important subjects covered in this collection are: Bilharzia Snail Destruction Section; canal clearance; hookworm; sanitation; schistosomiasis; self-infection with schistosomiasis, fluke; snail research and studies; Fluke; and copper sulphate.

This collection contains materials related to the group Collaboratives for Humanities and Arts Teaching (CHART), a project of the Rockefeller Foundation that operated from 1983-1994. While a few documents come from as early as 1983 or as late as 1994, the bulk of the materials date between 1987 and 1993. Series 1 includes substantial correspondence from CHART director Judith Renyi to the Rockefeller Foundation, CHART site directors, and many others, as well as some additional planning materials. Major Rockefeller Foundation correspondents include Alberta Arthurs and Hugh B. Price. Series 2 contains details about potential CHART sites, the CHARTnet telecommunications network between teachers, the Africa in the U.S. Classroom project, and other reports on national education issues. This series also contains considerable information about the creation and publication of the CHART book, Fire in the Eyes of Youth, a copy of which text is in the public relations materials in box 21. Series 3 includes materials such as agendas, handouts, and transcripts from various conferences which CHART members either attended or helped to organize. Finally, series 4 houses many of CHART's public relations materials, including newspaper clippings and other media as well as formal information kits. Substantial content throughout the collection also relates to individual projects sponsored by CHART, such as Humanitas and PATHS. Overall, major topics covered include the humanities, the arts, multicultural and international education, school reform and restructuring, and the funding for such reforms.

Collection consists of annual reports.

The collection includes general files, panel transcripts, meeting records, background papers, fundraising and contribution files, personnel files, contracts, audio tapes and financial records.

Primarily contains program files, grant administration files, Board records, officers files, photographs and audiovisual materials.

Contains publications, grant records, documentation of surveys and symposia, as well as materials pertaining to Harkness Fellowships.

The Commonwealth Fund office used these files as a cross reference system for the grants. The files concentrate from the 1950s to 1981. The folders consist of cross reference sheets and correspondence. There are some reports and photographs. Original boxes 317, 325, 326, 332, 333, 341, and 342 were not sent to the Archives; consequently files from D, E, P, and W are missing. Folders for The Johns Hopkins University and Massachusetts General Hospital are also missing.

Types of records include: officers' files.

Fellowships are an integral part of the Commonwealth Fund's history, and continually supported the varied public health, mental hygiene, and rural hospital programs of the CF. The advanced medical fellowships were first awarded in 1937, and although they primarily aided medical school teachers and research workers, individuals in other areas of health work also received financial assistance. About twenty fellowships per year were granted during 1950-1959, many of which entailed interdisciplinary studies, and by 1965 well over sixty fellowships were awarded yearly.

The Affordable Health Insurance series contains background information and reports of health care reform 2007-2009, including issue briefs, and analysis, comparisons, and drafts of congressional bills.

Series 4 contains annual reports from 1919-2002. A complete run of bound reports is available in the RAC Library. Individual soft cover reports are available in the archival collection. The Annual Report for 1986 is not available in the archival collection, but it is accessible in the RAC Library. Series 4 also contains a small selection of other reports and pamphlets spanning the mid-1980's through 1994.

Types of records include: manuscripts and library records.

An outgrowth of the Commonwealth Fund's relief activities in Eastern and Central Europe after World War I, the Austrian Program provided vital help in improving the health of children in Austria. From 1923 until 1929 the CF maintained an office in Vienna, and conducted a program of health and preventive medicine for children. Child health demonstrations were conducted in Salzburg, and similar activities transpired in Vienna, Klagenfurt, Graz, and elsewhere.

Records primarily contain analysis and dissemination of the Minority Health Survey (Grant 95451), as well as the Women's Health Survey, and Women's Health Survey II, and development files for the Minority Health Chart Book. This series also documents the 1990s activities of Karen Scott Collins, and provides the 1990s presentation files of Karen Davis and Karen Scott Collins including presentations pertaining to women's health, minority health, and health care reform.

Types of records include: meeting minutes, financial statements, and reports.

Types of records include: meeting minutes and reports.

Types of records include: correspondence, meeting minutes, proposals, and financial material.

Types of records include: administrative and grant files.

Primarily contains correspondence and grant records.

This series documents the work of the Commonwealth Fund Child Development and Preventive Care department, including the Youth Mentoring Program. The majority of the material is grant administration files. These records often include documentation of: proposals, administration and budget, grant products, related correspondence and background material. A limited selection of meeting records and program files is also included.

The Commonwealth Fund announced its Child Health Program on June 29, 1922. The goals of the five year program were "safe-guarding the health of the mother-to-be, laying a good health foundation for children in the early sensitive and formative period of their growth and health supervision and the formation of the essential health habits in school children." The responsibility for the conduct of the demonstrations rested with the American Child Health Association, which had been recently formed through the merger of the American Child Hygiene Association and the Child Health Organization of America. The Child Health Demonstration Committee of the Commonwealth Fund oversaw the program, with Barry C. Smith chairman and Courtenay Dinwiddie executive director. Other notable participants in the program include Philip Van Ingen, Richard A. Bolt, L. Emmett Holt, Sally Lucas Jean, Livingston Farrand, Donald B. Armstrong, and Barbara S. Quin.

This series contains meeting books of the Commonwealth Fund Commission for a High Performance Health System, including but not limited to: agendas, background information, commission members, participants, attendees, and schedule of speakers and events.

Types of records include: correspondence, grants, meeting minutes, publications, and personnel files.

This series contains program files and planning records of the Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship in Health Policy. The majority of the material is grant administration files documenting the planning and implementation of the Fellowship. These records often include: proposals, administration and budget files, grant products, evaluation reports, related correspondence and background material.

Types of records include: correspondence, clippings, programs, and publications.

Material in this Communications series includes: Press Clippings 2000-2002, Commonwealth Fund Publications 2001-2008, and a variety of historical files documenting the history of the Fund, its programs, and it's headquarters - the Harkness House. This series also contains a print archive of the Commonwealth Fund website 2003-2009, including monthly snapshots of the website. Available records also document the Fund's 75th Anniversary celebration and related publications.

The work of the Division on Community Clinics continued the efforts of Division II of the Program for the Prevention of Delinquency. Division II began its first demonstration child guidance clinic at St. Louis on May 10, 1922. With the expiration of the CF's five year program, the Cleveland Clinic's (December 31, 1926) and the Philadelphia Clinic's (June 30, 1927), demonstration nature ended, and they became permanent independent bodies. The entire Division II program was revised to stress increased use of the supervisory and consulting functions of the Division's field consultant staff, and promoted 1) continued contact with and supervision of the permanent clinics, and 2) additional field service to cities requesting assistance and advice regarding mental hygiene problems and programs.

The Commonwealth Fund established the Division of Health Studies as a separate division on April 1, 1931. The purposes of the organization were 1) to make periodic studies of the health conditions in the various communities in which the Commonwealth Fund worked, 2) assist in the development of division programs through the planning of administrative records and the appraisal of results, 3) conduct special studies in the field of health as from time to time seemed important in the development of the work of the Fund or would be of broad application.

The Commonwealth Fund's Division of Publications series is concerned with the publishing of books, journals, articles, and pamphlets. This series consists of correspondence, reports, financial papers, and a few pamphlets and books. The documents are mostly concerned with the financing and publishing of books, and the relationship of the Division with the authors and publishing companies.

The Commonwealth Fund announced in late 1929 a new project that began operation on January 1, 1930, and promoted rural health and medical service in the United States. The new program, instead of emphasizing child care, comprised all health services in rural communities. Initially the project was limited to two states, Tennessee (1930-1945) and Massachusetts (1930-1945), and to two counties or districts in each state. Later the program was also active in Mississippi (1931-1947), Oklahoma (1938-1949), Alabama (1938-1942), Arkansas (1945-1947), California, Florida (1945-1947), Kentucky (1945-1947), Louisiana (1946), Maine, New Jersey, Ohio, Virginia, and Washington. Dr. William J. French, the first director of the CF's child-health demonstration in Fargo, North Dakota, and former head of the CF's Austrian Program, was named director. French resigned his post on April 4, 1931, and on May 15, 1931, Clarence L. Scamman became the new director of the Division.

Prior to 1925 the Commonwealth Fund granted only limited monies for the building or enlargement of hospitals, i.e., to Yale University for improvements to the New Haven Hospital, to the Grenfell Association for small hospitals in Newfoundland, to the Presbyterian Board of Missions for a hospital at Point Barrow, Alaska, and to Memorial Hospital in New York City to aid in the construction of a new building. The Fund's experiences with the Child Health Demonstrations included more than just child health services and brought the realization of the need for improved medical and surgical facilities in rural America. In June 1925 Henry C. Wright, hospital consultant, studied the possibilities of improving rural hospital services. Wright's study led to the establishment of the Division of Rural Hospitals and the appointment, in March 1926, of a director, Henry J. Southmayd, who served in that capacity throughout the division's existence.

Only two files from the Commonwealth Fund's Educational Research Program remain. The rest were destroyed on February 25, 1949, under Barry C. Smith's instructions. The first file, The Survey of Rural Education in New York State, was appeal #287 and received the Commonwealth code designation 1225-S. This survey, begun in 1920, represents one of the earliest projects funded by the CF. A "Committee of Twenty One" comprised of noted New York educators oversaw the survey project. Members from the Dairyman's League, The New York State Department of Education, the Farm Bureau Federation, the State Grange, the State College of Agriculture, the New York State Teachers Association, and the New York State Federation of Home Bureaus actively participated in the survey. Samuel C. Fairley, assistant director of the Commonwealth Fund, George M. Wiley of the University of the State of New York, and John H. Finley, New York State Commissioner of Education, directed the survey.

This series documents the Commonwealth Fund's activities in the area of elderly care including but not necessarily limited to medicare, medicaid, nursing home care, treatment, as well as chronic illness and end of life care. The records consist of staff program files, advisory committee meeting records, program reviews, and pertinent grants. The grant files often contain records pertaining to: budget and administration, proposals and development, articles and background information, correspondence, grant products and related program files.

This series contains Executive Vice President for Programs, Stephen Schoenbaum's files of the Program Monitoring Advisory Committee Meetings, 1995-2003. Each meeting book provides the agenda and discussions, committee members and participants, budget plan, goals, program overviews and reports, and Fund quarterly reports.

Contains administrative records for the Harkness Fellowships, with a limited volume of files pertaining to the Atlantic Fellowships in Public Policy, and the Ian Axford Fellowships in Public Policy.

Types of records include: budgets, correspondence, and meeting minutes.

A selection of grant, project and program review sessions from the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s.

Grants Management office files including but not limited to: Program Reviews and Grant Lists 1983-1990; Program Management Committee files, grant administration files, and associated background papers, correspondence and several financial reports and budgets.

Primaily consists of grant administration records as well as records created and mantained by the Grants Management Office.

This accession contains grant administration files, program files and associated meeting records, conferences, and briefings pertaining to the Alliance for Health Reform, 2005-2010.

This accession contains grant administration files for grants awarded 2003-2008. The records primarily consist of grant proposals and development, budget and administration records, correspondence, associated articles, and grant products.

Primaily consists of grant administration records as well as budgets, reports, proposals, planning documents, meeting records, and program plans.

The material in this collection documents The Commonwealth Fund's grant-making from the early 2000s through to the early 2010s. The grant files typically include the official paperwork including correspondence, proposal developments, and grant products.

Grant actions comprise the largest series of the Commonwealth Fund records. The earliest grants funded a broad range of projects and associations and reflected the diverse and varied program of the Fund's beginning years. In many cases the grants were parallel or ancillary to existing Commonwealth Fund projects. Often, however, unrelated or special short-term grants were awarded. When the Commonwealth Fund's program became more oriented toward medical education and research, the grant actions mirrored this policy alteration. The records found in the Grants Series are the combination of the unprocessed Grants and Expired Grants Series.

Each grant file often contains records pertaining to: budget and administration, proposals and development, articles and background information, correspondence, grant products and related program files. The grants represented in this series primarily span 2000-2010.

Each grant file often contains records pertaining to: budget and administration, proposals and development, articles and background information, correspondence, grant products and related program files. The material represented in this series also contains a selection of program files, program reviews and evaluations, grant authorizations and declinations.

The Harkness Family Papers are the private records of Edward S. and Mary S. Harkness. These documents are concerned with their donations to universities, schools, institutions and individuals. There is a great quantity of information on donations to schools and universities like Phillips Exeter Academy, Columbia, Harvard, Yale and others. There is a book on the residential halls of Yale University in the Harkness Family Volumes. The Harkness Family provided funds for organizations like the Pilgrim Trust in which further information can be found in the Harkness Family Volumes. There are other institutions which the Harkness family contributed to like Presbyterian Hospital, New York Public Library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gifts and donations for servants, friends and family are documented. Members of the family include the Russels, the Stillmans and the Taylors. There are records of the Harkness family. These are mostly concerned with Edward S. Harkness' Estate and Trust after his death. The Harkness Family Volumes contains condolences offered at his death. The Harkness Family papers were examined by Malcolm P. Aldrich, Trustee of the Edward S. Harkness Estate. These documents consist mostly of correspondence, financial data, legal documents and reports.

The records of the Harkness Fellowships reflect the close personal relationship the Fund Instituted with over 1,800 fellows.

The records of the Harkness Fellowships reflect the close personal relationship the Fund Instituted with over 1,800 fellows. A typical file in Series 20.2 contains a fellow's application, his curriculum vitae and letters of recommendation, his fellowship report, and photographs. It was not unusual for fellows and officials at the Commonwealth Fund to maintain correspondence for more than twenty years, and files often contain family photographs, professional writings, and newspaper clippings from fellows who succeeded in a wide variety of fields. Such files clearly demonstrate that close and personal relationships were maintained by the Fund and the Harkness fellows.

Consists of approximately 700 oversized drawings ranging in date from James Gamble Rogers originals in 1907 through the renovations completed in the 1980s.

This series documents the grant administration files and associated program files for the Commonwealth Fund Health Care in New York City program. Each grant file often contains records pertaining to: budget and administration, proposals and development, articles and background information, correspondence, grant products and related files. The resulting Louis Harris and Associates survey is also included.

Contains documentation of the Healthy Steps for Young Children program, from its inception through the mid-2000s, including planning documents, correspondence, reports, program and site evaluations, and related grant records.

This series primarily contains program staff files documenting pertinent grants, surveys, symposiums, issue papers, and Commission on Women's Health activities.

Index card files documenting early grants, public heath fellowships, and the English Mental Hygiene Program. Portions of these card files also document subject files, general files and rural hospitals.

The majority of the Institute's surviving records consist of financial statements, audits and correspondence relating to fiscal or budget matters. The minutes of the Institute detail the activities of the Board of Directors, the incorporators, the annual corporation meetings, and the committee dividing the assets of the Institute. In late 1937 the Commonwealth Fund decided that all case files pertaining to the treatment of children at the Institute should be destroyed. Therefore, in February of 1938 these records, as well as the index to these cases, were burned. Other folders in this series contain sensitive material.