Rockefeller Archive Center

Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports are created by recipients of research travel stipends and by many others who have conducted research at the RAC. The reports demonstrate the breadth of the RAC's archival holdings, particularly in the study of philanthropy and its effects. Read more about the history of philanthropy at resource.rockarch.org. Also, see the RAC Bibliography of Scholarship, a comprehensive online database of publications citing RAC archival collections.
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Imagining Rockefeller Center

January 1, 2009

The original purpose of my research visit was to examine how communications -- with particular reference to the emergent communication technologies -- were represented in the design and decorative elements of Rockefeller Center. To this end, during my visit to the Rockefeller Archive Center, I examined relevant material in the Rockefeller Family Archives, (Record Group 2 Office of the Messrs Rockefeller, Business Interests series), giving a good deal of attention to the ideas of the philosopher, Hartley Burr Alexander, who was commissioned to develop a vision for how "Rockefeller City," as it was originally called, would be decorated.

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