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This collection contains correspondence, dockets, financial reports, minutes, and manuals relating to the Davison Fund, Inc.

Davison Fund I records were kept by the Fund's treasurer and include minutes of trustee and committee meetings and financial materials.

Important subjects in this collection include: child development and parent education; public health; interracial relations; general education; foreign and home missions; emergency relief in time of natural disaster and war; development of social sciences - both practically and theoretically; and social welfare.

Important subjects in this collection include: rural schools, race relations, and New Orleans history. Among the correspondents are Jackson Davis, Edmund E. Day, Edwin Embree, Abraham Flexner, Raymond B. Fosdick, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Louis Shores, S. L. Smith, and Anson Phelps Stokes.

The project files include grant administration records, correspondence, reports, grant actions, grant products, and other associated material that document the philanthropic work of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

The 1962-1976 general files chronicle management of the philanthropic affairs of the third generation of the Rockefeller family primarily Abby Rockefeller Mauze, John D. Rockefeller 3rd, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Laurance S. Rockefeller, Winthrop Rockefeller, and David Rockefeller.

Rockefeller Foundation officers' diaries:

Rockefeller Foundation officers' diaries:

Rockefeller Foundation officers' diaries:

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