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Contains working papers from the office of Eric Wanner from his time as President of the Russell Sage Foundation.

Rockefeller Foundation officers' diaries:

Rockefeller Foundation officers' diaries:

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.

The Ford Foundation's Catalogued Reports collection includes policy and programming documents, program evaluations, and periodic program status reports produced by Foundation officers and staff, as well as consultants and grantees. Some published material produced by Ford Foundation grants is also included in the collection. The collection also includes some of the Ford Foundation's own publications, such as the Annual Reports and newsletters.

The collection contains the office files of Bernard Berelson who served as Director of the Behavioral Sciences Division at the Ford Foundation from 1951-1957 as well as materials related to programs that extended beyond Berelson's time at the Foundation. Materials within the collection include correspondence, reports, notes, and data tables that analyze the behavioral sciences as an academic discipline. There are also grant proposals, fellowship information, and notes and correspondence regarding the university presses program, a program that allocated $1,725,000 to 30 university presses over a period of five years to increase book publication in the humanities and social sciences.

Records of the director of opposition research during Rockefeller's 1964 and 1968 presidential campaigns. Documents, statements, and policy positions of Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, and other prospective opponents.

The papers focus on the years after World War II and the reconstruction of the Peking Union Medical College, and include reports and correspondence by Loucks from China Medical Board, Inc. sponsored trips to the Far East, 1951-1964. The countries surveyed include: Japan, Hong Kong, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Siam (Thailand), Burma, Ceylon, India, Pakistan, Lebanon, Korea, Vietnam, and the Trust Territory. The reports include information not only about the status of medical education, but also about the social and political climate of each country.

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.

This series is made up of Nelson A. Rockefeller's personal copies of correspondence, reports, and other documents gathered during his service in the federal government in ten presidential appointments between 1940 and 1969. All manner of documents can be found in these files, from handwritten notes to printed reports. Marginal notes found in Rockefeller's handwriting are not uncommon. These records both duplicate and complement official government records held in the National Archives and in presidential libraries.