ROCKEFELLER ARCHIVE CENTER

The Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) was established in 1974 to assemble, process, and make available for scholary reseach the papers of the Rockefeller family and the records of various philanthropic and educational institutions founded by the family, including The Rockefeller University, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. RAC also holds non-Rockefeller philanthropic records including the archvies of the Commonwealth Fund, the Culpeper Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the John and Mary Markle Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council. For more that thirty years, RAC has been dedicated to the collection, stewardship and study of primary materials that reflect the history of philanthropy and the many fields --medicine, public health, science, the arts, international affairs, social welfare, education, the social sciences, among others--touched by American philanthropy.