Bernays, Edward L. 1891-1995 creator mixed material monographic eng 227,000 860 54 160.2 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. Open to research. 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 Bernays, Doris Fleischman, 1891- Bernays, Edward L., 1891-1995 mm 78012534 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms003016 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003016 Open to research. DLC 790410 20260227111621.0 mm 78012534