11315cpcaa2201693 a 4500 mm 78012534 DLC 20260227111621.0 cr ||||||||||| 790410|||||||||||| eng mm 78012534 ms 67000588 su 78012534 DLC DLC DLC dacs R lcmd Bernays, Edward L., 1891-1995. Edward L. Bernays papers, 1777-1994 (bulk 1920-1990). 227,000 items. 860 containers plus 54 oversize. 160.2 linear feet. Open to research. Correspondence, publicity material, and scrapbooks, together with memoranda, research notes, speeches, articles, drafts of books, lists, surveys, reports, printed matter, photographs, and other material documenting Bernays's career as a pioneer in the field of public relations and the development of that profession and its influence on American society. Bernays represented leading figures and organizations in the arts, finance, health, industry, philanthropy, and world and national politics. Much of the collection was used as the basis for Bernays's memoir, Biography of an Idea (1965). Topics include the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Edison's invention of the electric light (1929); the stock market crash of 1929 and the Depression; President Herbert Hoover's Emergency Committee for Employment and Committee on the Cost of Medical Care; New York City mayoral election of 1940; economic conditions, government agencies, international politics, and loan campaigns during World War II; postwar corporate and theater industry development in New York City; Jawaharlal Nehru's efforts to regain American goodwill following India's neutrality during the Korean War; and the Vietnamese conflict. Includes material on Bernays's public relations work for the automobile, bread, brewing, magazine publishing, pharmaceutical, and radio broadcasting industries. Also includes material on his interest in environmental affairs, the Edward L. Bernays Foundation, and such social issues as crime, cigarette smoking, and aging. Family papers (1831-1993) include correspondence between Bernays and his wife, Doris Fleischman Bernays; a draft of her book, A Wife Is Many Women (1955); and letters and other papers of or relating to Bernays's uncle, Sigmund Freud, and other members of the Freud and Bernays families. Clients include Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation, American Nurses' Association, American Psychological Association, American Tobacco Company, Ballets russes, Bank of America, Book Publishers Research Institute, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Cartier (Firm), Columbia Broadcasting System, Committee for America Self-Contained, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes (Paris, France, 1925), General Motors Corporation, Jacques Seligmann & Co., Light's Golden Jubilee (1929), Mack Trucks, Inc., Mayor's Committee for the Commemoration of the Golden Anniversary of the City of New York, Philco Radio and Television Corp., Procter & Gamble Company, United Brewers Industrial Foundation, United Fruit Company, United States Information Agency, United States Sugar Beet Association, and Ward Baking Company. Correspondents include Paul Bern, Sam Black, Frances Payne Bingham Bolton, Lucius M. Boomer, Daniel J. Boorstin, Homer E. Capehart, Jacques Cartier, Willoughby S. Chesley, Myron M. Cowen, George Creel, E. A. Filene, Sigmund Freud, James Watson Gerard, Norman Bel Geddes, Amadeo Peter Giannini, Eric Frederick Goldman, George W. Hill, Herbert Hoover, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson, Otto Hermann Kahn, Marc Klaw, Alfred A. Knopf, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ivy L. Lee, Erich Leinsdorf, Sinclair Lewis, Clare Boothe Luce, Henry Robinson Luce, William McChesney Martin, Joseph V. McKee, H. L. Mencken, David Page, William S. Paley, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, George H. Phelps, A. N. Spanel, Arthur B. Spingarn, Lawrence E. Spivak, Albert Payson Terhune, Robert F. Wagner, Henry Agard Wallace, William B. Ward, and Edmund S. Whitman. Most photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Sound recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Public relations consultant. Died 1995. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet. Bern, Paul, 1889-1932 Correspondence. Bernays, Doris Fleischman, 1891- Correspondence. Black, Sam, 1915- Correspondence. Bolton, Frances Payne Bingham, 1885-1977 Correspondence. Boomer, Lucius M. (Lucius Messenger), 1878-1947 Correspondence. Boorstin, Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph), 1914-2004 Correspondence. Capehart, Homer E. (Homer Earl), 1897-1979 Correspondence. Cartier, Jacques, d. 1941 Correspondence. Chesley, Willoughby S. Correspondence. Cowen, Myron M. (Myron Melvin), 1898-1965 Correspondence. Creel, George, 1876-1953 Correspondence. Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 Anniversaries, etc. Filene, E. A. (Edward Albert), 1860-1937 Correspondence. Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 Correspondence. Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958 Correspondence. Gerard, James Watson, 1867- Correspondence. Giannini, Amadeo Peter, 1870-1949 Correspondence. Goldman, Eric Frederick, 1915-1989 Correspondence. Hill, George W. (George Washington), 1884-1946 Correspondence. Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964. Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 Correspondence. Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 Correspondence. Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 Correspondence. Kahn, Otto Hermann, 1867-1934 Correspondence. Klaw, Marc, 1858-1936 Correspondence. Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984 Correspondence. Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970 Correspondence. Lee, Ivy L. (Ivy Ledbetter), 1877-1934 Correspondence. Leinsdorf, Erich, 1912-1993 Correspondence. Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 Correspondence. Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987 Correspondence. Luce, Henry Robinson, 1898-1967 Correspondence. Martin, William McChesney Correspondence. McKee, Joseph V., d. 1956 Correspondence. Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 Correspondence. Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964. Page, David, 1892-1989 Correspondence. Paley, William S. (William Samuel), 1901- Correspondence. Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi, 1900-1990 Correspondence. Phelps, George H. (George Harrison), 1883-1945 Correspondence. Spanel, A. N. (Abram Nathaniel), 1901-1985 Correspondence. Spingarn, Arthur B. (Arthur Barnett), 1878-1971 Correspondence. Spivak, Lawrence E. (Lawrence Edmund), 1900-1994 Correspondence. Terhune, Albert Payson, 1872-1942 Correspondence. Wagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand), 1910- Correspondence. Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965 Correspondence. Ward, William B. (William Breining), 1884-1929 Correspondence. Whitman, Edmund S. Correspondence. Bernays family. Freud family. New York (N.Y.). Mayor's Committee for the Commemoration of the Golden Anniversary of the City of New York. United States. President's Emergency Committee for Employment. Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation. American Nurses' Association. American Psychological Association. American Tobacco Company. Ballets russes. Bank of America. Book Publishers Research Institute. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Cartier (Firm) Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. Committee for America Self-Contained. Committee on the Cost of Medical Care. Edward L. Bernays Foundation. General Motors Corporation. Jacques Seligmann & Co. Mack Trucks, inc. Philco Radio and Television Corp. United Brewers Industrial Foundation. United Fruit Company. United States Information Agency. United States Sugar Beet Association. Ward Baking Company. Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes (1925 : Paris, France) Light's Golden Jubilee (1929) Advertising. Administrative agencies United States. Aging. Cigarettes. Crime. Depressions 1929. Electric lighting Anniversaries, etc. Korean War, 1950-1953 Diplomatic history. Loans. Mayors New York (State) New York Election 1940. Arts Public relations. Automobile industry and trade Public relations. Bread industry Public relations. Brewing industry Public relations. Charities Public relations. Financial institutions Public relations. Health facilities Public relations. Human ecology. Radio broadcasting Public relations. Public relations. Public relations Periodicals. Public relations Pharmaceutical industry. Public relations and politics. Smoking. Stock Market Crash, 1929. Theater New York (State) New York. Vietnam War, 1961-1975. World politics 1933-1945. World War, 1939-1945 Economic aspects. India Foreign relations United States. New York (N.Y.) Economic conditions. United States Foreign relations India. Public relations consultants. itoamc Bernays, Doris Fleischman, 1891- Wife is many women. 1955. Bernays, Edward L., 1891-1995. Biography of an idea. 1965. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003016 39741 39741