Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Rockefeller, John D., 1906-1978
| title | JDR 3rd Fund Archives, 1963-1979. | repository | Rockefeller Archive Center |
| description | The collection consists of correspondence, reports, publications, administrative material, financial records, records of meetings, and a wide array of non-textual materials documenting the activities of the Fund's various programs. These records also contain large contact files, consisting of correspondence, brochures, and records of meetings related to organizations with which the Fund had no grant relationship. There is a corresponding photograph collection of 1,540 items. Bio/History: The JDR 3rd Fund was incorporated in 1963 "to stimulate, encourage, promote, and support activities important to human welfare." It was a means by which its founder, John D. Rockefeller, 3rd (president of the Fund from 1963 until his death in 1978), could address his varied interests in fields not served by such organizations such as the Population Coucil and the Asia Society./ Upon the death of John D. Rockefeller 3rd in 1978, leadership of the Fund passed to his wife, Mrs. Blanchette Rockefeller. Under her direction, the Fund fulfilled its obligations for the fiscal year and was dissolved in July 1979. Its Asian Cultural Program was continued by a new organization, the Asian Cultural Council. |
| extent | 143 cubic ft. |
| formats | Administrative Records Correspondence Financial Records Printed Materials Ephemera |
| access | None. Photocopy services available to on site researchers. Authorization to publish extended passages must be requested separately. |
| record link | http://www.rockarch.org/collections/rockorgs/jdr3orgs.php |
| record source | http://www.rockarch.org/ |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:30:00 |
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| title | Archives pamphlet file: Rockefeller, John D., 1906-1978 : miscellaneous uncataloged material. | repository | The Museum of Modern Art |
| description | The folder may include clippings, correspondence, memoranda, press releases, brochures, announcements, reviews, invitations, obituaries and other ephemeral material relevant to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and its history. Location MoMA Manhattan Archives Pamphlet File Call Number Rockefeller, John D., 1906-1978 |
| extent | 1 folder. |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record source | https://library.nyarc.org/permalink/01NYA_INST/ai54l4/alma991011485009707141 |
| updated | 11/29/2022 15:49:50 |
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| title | General files. 1890-1961. | repository | Rockefeller Archive Center |
| description | This collection documents the activities and interests of three generations of the John D. Rockefeller family. Bio/History: John D. Rockefeller, Jr. joined his father's personal office on October 1, 1897, and became his father's closest associate in the growing philanthropic activities of the office. Although Mr. Rockefeller, Sr. made only occasional visits to the office after 1897, he maintained close contact with it's activities./ In 1897, there were seven employees in the office, by 1960, the number had grown to over 200. John D. Jr.'s five sons joined the office during the 1930's./ Under the guidance of Rockefeller, Jr. and a small number of close associates, the office supervised a growing number of diversified philanthropies. During his lifetime he gave over $550,000,000 to many charitable projects. |
| extent | 580 cubic ft. |
| formats | Ephemera |
| access | Photocopy services available for on site researchers. Authorization to publish extended passages must be requested separately. |
| record source | http://www.rockarch.org/ |
| finding aid | Registers and card catalog available at the Center. |
| acquisition information | The General Files were assembled in the Rockefeller Family offices in New York at 26 Broadway and at Room 5600, 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Formally organized in the Rockefeller Family archives in 1954, transferred to the Rockefeller Archive Center in 1981. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:02 |
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| title | Reminiscences of John Davison Rockefeller 3d: oral history, 1967. | repository | Columbia University Libraries |
| description | The evolution and execution of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Bio/History: Philanthropist. |
| extent | Transcript: 69 leaves. |
| formats | Interview Transcript |
| access | Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| finding aid | Name index available |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:02 |
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| title | Reminiscences of John Davison Rockefeller 3d: oral history, 1963. | repository | Columbia University Libraries |
| description | Concept and development of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts: private and public financing, city and state authorities and New York World's Fair, relationship with Metropolitan Opera, Philharmonic, Juilliard, New York Public Library, City Center. Interest in Asia: International House (Japan), Population Council, agricultural economics, Council on Economic and Cultural Affairs, Japan Society, Asia Society. Bio/History: Philanthropist. |
| extent | Transcript: 334 leaves. Tape: 1 reel. |
| formats | Interview Sound Recording Transcript |
| access | Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information |
| record source | http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ |
| finding aid | Name index available |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:02 |
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| title | Martin Birnbaum papers, 1862-1970. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | The papers of New York art dealer, critic, and author Martin Birnbaum measure 3.2 linear feet and date from 1862-1967, with the bulk of the material dating from 1920-1967. The papers document Birnbaum's association with the firm of Scott and Fowles, the lives and activities of his friends and colleagues, and his literary work, through biographical material, correspondence, writings and notes, business records, printed material, a scrapbook, scattered artwork, and photographs of Birnbaum, friends and colleagues, and artwork. REELS N698, N698A, and N698B: Correspondence primarily reflecting his association with the firm of Scott & Fowles, but also including details about lives and activities of his correspondents, among them Edward Bruce, Grover Cleveland, Norman Douglas, Rockwell Kent, Paul Manship, Upton Sinclair, Maxfield Parrish, Bernard Berenson, Augustus E. John, Jules Pascin, Carl Van Vechten, Hamilton Easter Field, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Gari Melchers, William Hunt Diederich, Elie Nadelman, Childe Hassam, John Quinn, Charles Ricketts, Nicholas K. Roerich, and Charles H. Shannon. REEL 108: Primarily letters received by Birnbaum in New York, and throughout Europe from 1917-1943. Correspondents include Grenville L. Winthrop, Gisela Richter, Stevenson Scott, Paul Manship, Maurice Sterne, Edward Bruce, and Maxfield Parrish, Upton Sinclair, George Bellows, John Gregory, Augustus John, Ivan Mestrovic, Elizabeth Winthrop Miles, Robert McIntyre, Georgia O'Keeffe, Joseph Pennell, John Quinn, Charles Ricketts, William Rothenstein, Albert Rutherston, Pamela Colman Smith, Carl Sprinchorn, Pavel Tchelitchew, Schofield Thayer, T. Zoumpoulakis, and family members. Subject matter includes business concerns, art concerns, travel, and family affairs. REELS 1023-1025: Over 1600 letters received. Correspondents include: Cecelia Beaux, Sven Berg, Gutzon Borglum, Edward Bruce, Lodewyk Bruckman, Beniamino Bufano, Mabel Choate, Stephen C. Clark, Royal Cortissoz, Walter Damrosch, Edmund Davis, Reginald Davis, Louise Dillingham, Edmund Dulac, Anne Goldthwaite, Magnus Gross, Herbert Haseltine, Malvina Hoffman, Jan Hoowij, Benjamin Javits, Rockwell Kent, Lenard Kester, Paul Manship, Elisabeth Marbury, Henry McIlhenny, Gari Melchers, Houghton P. Metcalf, Emily Winthrop Miles, Kate Morse, Georgia O'Keeffe, James Parmelee, Maxfield Parrish, Harold Woodbury Parsons, Jules Pascin, Albin Polasek, Alfred B. Potterton, Edward G. Robinson, J. F. Rock, John D. Rockefeller, Emanuel G. Romano, John Rothenstein, John Singer Sargent, Stevenson Scott, Janet Scudder, Carl Sprinchorn, Maurice Sterne, Albert Sterner, R.A. Walker (Georges Derry), Elsie Weil, Carl N. Werntz, Millicent Werntz, Edith Wetmore, Thornton Wilder, Ellis Wilson, Stanley Wilson, Grenville Lindall Winthrop, and Carl Zigrosser. REELS 1025-1026: Business and financial documents; legal documents, certificates, and passports; writings by Birnbaum and others including a manuscript for Birnbaum's book The Last Romantic, with notes by Upton Sinclair; one scrapbook of clippings, loose clippings regarding Edward Dulac, and other printed material; sketches; bookplates; notes, letters, and printed material relating to Aubrey Beardsley; lists and descriptions of works of art; a notebook of addresses; travel itineraries and maps; and programs. REEL 1027: 287 photographs of Birnbaum, and art related people, including Maurice Sterne, Edward Bruce, Leo Stein and Alfred Potterton at Anticoli Corrado, and Cecilia Beaux, Robert Chanler, Philip de Laszlo, Despiau, Norman Douglas, Lord Duveen, Herbert Haseltine, Augustus John by Arnold Genthe, Paul Manship by De Witt Ward, Gari Melchers, Elie Nadelman, Mrs. Gustave Radeke, William Rothenstein, Stevenson Scott, Clare Sheridan, Albert Sterner, Abraham Walkowitz, Mrs. Leonard Volkman Webb, and Grenville Lindall Winthrop; 82 travel photographs primarily of Greece; and 142 photographs of works of art. UNMICROFILMED: Three tape recordings, two containing information about The Last Romantic, dictated in 1952, and one unidentified. Co-Creator: Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872-1898 Beaux, Cecilia, 1855-1942 Bellows, George, 1882-1925 Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959 Berg, Sven Borglum, Gutzon, 1867-1941 Bruce, Edward, 1879-1943 Bruckman, Lodewyk Bufano, Beniamino, 1898-1970 Chanler, Robert Winthrop, 1872-1930 Choate, Mabel, 1870-1958 Clark, Stephen C. (Stephen Carlton), b. 1882 Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 Cortissoz, Royal, 1869-1948 Damrosch, Walter, 1862-1950 Davis, Reginald De Laszlo, Philip A., 1869-1937 Derry, Georges, 1886- Despiau, Charles, 1874-1946 Diederich, William Hunt, 1884-1953 Dillingham, Louise Douglas, Norman, 1868-1952 Dulac, Edmund, 1882-1953 Duveen, Joseph Duveen, Baron, 1869-1939 Field, Hamilton Easter Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942 photographer. Goldthwaite, Anne, 1869-1944 Gregory, John, 1879-1958 Gross, Magnus Haseltine, Herbert, 1877-1962 Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935 Hoffman, Malvina, 1887-1966 Hoowij, Jan, 1907- Javits, Benjamin A. (Benjamin Abraham), 1894-1973 John, Augustus, 1878-1961 Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971 Kester, Lenard, 1917- Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 1879-1962 Manship, Paul, 1885-1966 Marbury, Elisabeth, 1856-1933 McIlhenny, Henry P. McIntyre, Robert G. Melchers, Gari, 1860-1932 Meštrovi , Ivan, 1883-1962 Metcalf, Houghton P. Miles, Emily Winthrop, 1893-1962 Morse, Kate Nadelman, Elie, 1882-1946 O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986 Parmelee, James Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966 Parsons, Harold Woodbury, 1883-1967 Pascin, Jules, 1885-1930 Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926 Polasek, Albin, 1879-1965 Potterton, Alfred B. Quinn, John, 1870-1924 Radeke, Eliza G., 1855-1931 Rerikh, Nikolai Konstantinovich, 1874-1947 Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta, 1882-1972 Ricketts, Charles S., 1866-1931 Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973 Rock, Joseph Francis Charles, 1884-1962 Rockefeller, John D., 1906- Romano, Emanuel, 1897?-1984 Rothenstein, John, Sir, 1901- Rothenstein, William, Sir, 1872-1945 Rutherston, Albert Daniel, 1881-1953 Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925 Scott, Stevenson Scudder, Janet, b. 1873 Shannon, Charles Hazelwood, 1863-1937 Sheridan, Clare, 1885-1970 Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 Smith, Pamela Colman Sprinchorn, Carl, 1887-1971 Stein, Leo, 1872-1947 Sterne, Maurice, 1878-1957 Sterner, Albert, 1863-1946 Tchelitchew, Pavel, 1898-1957 Thayer, Scofield, b. 1889 Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 Walkowitz, Abraham, 1880-1965 Ward, De Witt photographer. Webb, Leonard Volkman, Mrs Weil, Elsie Werntz, Carl N. (Carl Newland), 1874-1944 Werntz, Millicent Wetmore, Edith Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 Wilson, Ellis, 1899-1977 Wilson, Stanley Winthrop, Grenville Lindall, 1864-1943 Zigrosser, Carl, 1891- Zoumpoulakis, T. Berlin Photographic Company (New York, N.Y.) Fogg Art Museum Scott & Fowles (Firm) |
| extent | 4.3 linear ft. (partially microfilmed on 9 microfilm reels) reels N698, N698a, N698b, 108, and 1023-1027 |
| formats | Correspondence Financial Records Photographs Electronic Resource Notes |
| access | Use requires an appointment. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm copy. |
| record source | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.birnmart.pdf |
| acquisition information | Donated/lent 1967-1975 by Birnbaum and his great-nephew, Jerome Ziegler. Material reel 108 donated anonymously. |
| updated | 02/24/2020 16:51:22 |
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| title | Papers of Edward Waldo Forbes, 1856-1971 (inclusive). | repository | Harvard University Archives |
| description | These papers document the personal and professional life of Edward Waldo Forbes (EWF) and the lives of members of the Forbes family. They include EWF’s personal and professional correspondence and papers, diaries and calendars, writings, acccount books, school papers, lecture notes, and memorabilia. Of note are the manuscript of EWF’s history of the Fogg Art Museum, papers relating to Gerry’s Landing (a riverfront site in Cambridge), papers relating to Harvard Riverside Associates, and papers relating to EWF’s World War I Red Cross service. Included are diaries belonging to Margaret Laighton Forbes and Sarah Forbes. History notes : Edward Waldo Forbes (1873-1969) was director of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, an accomplished artist, and a world traveler. He was born into a prominent family (his parents being William Hathaway Forbes and Edith Emerson Forbes, his maternal grandfather being Ralph Waldo Emerson) in 1873 on the family-owned Naushon Island in Massachusetts. In 1907, Forbes married Margaret Laighton, a notable watercolorist and gardener; they had five children. Forbes relationship with Harvard and the arts began when he earned his Harvard A.B. 1895. He continued his studies at Oxford University, and returned to Massachusetts to form the Charles River Association, an organization dedicated to preserving Harvard’s landscape. He became a trustee of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1903 and served in that capacity for 63 years. He acquired art, particularly Italian paintings; his gifts and loans to the Fogg Art Museum contributed significantly to the museum’s eventual rise to worldwide prominence. In 1909, Forbes became Director of the Fogg Art Museum. During his 35 years there, he and his assistant director, Paul Sachs, oversaw the impressive growth of the Museum’s collections, staff, property, and reputation. Forbes also served as a lecturer in Fine Arts at Harvard from 1909 to 1935. He was named the Martin A. Ryerson Lecturer in Fine Arts. From 1945 to 1957, Forbes was a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers. Notes : Collection re-organized and re-numbered in 1998; it contains material formerly numbered HUG 4401.xx and HUH 403. Cite as : Edward Waldo Forbes Papers, Harvard University Archives. Notes : In the Harvard University Archives: Records of Harvard Riverside Associates (HUD 3748), Records of the Fogg Art Museum (HUF 401.xxx), and historical records relating to Harvard’s curriculum (HUC 8xxx). Location : Harvard Archives Harvard Depository HUGBF 656.x Location : Harvard Archives Harvard Depository HUGFP 139.xx |
| extent | 38 cubic feet in 111 containers. |
| formats | Personal Papers Business Papers Correspondence Diaries Financial Records |
| access | Access may be restricted. Consult reference staff in the Harvard University Archives for details. |
| record source | http://hollis.harvard.edu/ |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:08 |
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