Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)Edward L Bernays papers, 1777-1994
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Main title
- Edward L. Bernays papers, 1777-1994 (bulk 1920-1990).
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- Selected Documents from the Edward L. Bernays Papers https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003016.001 opens in a new window
- Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003016 opens in a new window
- Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003016.3 opens in a new window
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Description
- 227,000 items.
- 860 containers plus 54 oversize.
- 160.2 linear feet.
Access advisory
- Open to research.
- Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.
Finding aids
- Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003016 opens in a new window
Local shelving no.
- 0533I
- Oversize 0114N
- Small backlog (Unprocessed ac. 24,104)
- Small backlog (Unprocessed ac. 24,915)
Related names
Biography/History note
- Public relations consultant.
Organized/Arranged
- Arranged in three parts composed of twenty-five series.
- Part I is arranged in eleven series. Series 1: Family Correspondence, 1901-1962; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1913-1963; Series 3: Client, Institution, and Organization File, 1916-1964; Series 4: Speech and Article File, 1919-1967; Series 5: Book File, 1890-1965; Series 6: Edward L. Bernays' Foundation File, 1946-1963; Series 7: Doris Fleischman Bernays File, 1923-1961; Series 8: Lists, 1943-1961; Series 9: Miscellany, 1896-1963; Series 10: Scrapbooks, 1918-1956; and Series 11: Oversize, 1915-1945.
- Part II is arranged in seven series. Series 1: Family Correspondence, 1890-1972; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1911-1975; Series 3: Client, Institution, and Organization File, 1930-1970; Series 4: Speeches and Writings File, 1925-1975; Series 5: Edward L. Bernays' Foundation File, 1968-1975; Series 6: Doris Fleischman Bernays File, 1900-1975; and Series 7: Miscellany, 1890-1979.
- Part III is arranged in seven series. Series 1: Family Papers, 1831-1993; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1905-1994; Series 3: Client, Institution, and Organization File, 1913-1992; Series 4: Subject File, 1919-1994; Series 5: Speeches and Writings File, 1912-1992; Series 6: Miscellany, 1777-1993; and Series 7: Oversize, 1916-1966.
Summary
- 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.
LC Subjects
- Bern, Paul, 1889-1932--Correspondence.
- Bernays, Doris Fleischman, 1892-1980--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, -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 H., 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., -1956--Correspondence.
- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Correspondence.
- Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964.
- Page, David, 1892-1989--Correspondence.
- Paley, William S. (William Samuel), 1901-1990--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.
Notes
- Most photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
- Some single-issue newspapers and a volume of rotogravure etchings transferred to Library of Congress Serial & Government Publications Division.
- Sound recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
- Collection material in English.
Acquisition source
- Deposits and gifts; deposits later converted to gift, and estate of Edward L. Bernays, Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Bernays, 1966-1995.
Constituent unit
Additional formats
- Selected documents from the Edward L. Bernays papers available through the Library of Congress Web site https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003016.001 opens in a new window
LCCN
- mm 78012534
Invalid LCCN
- su 78012534
Other standard no.
- MSS12534
Repository
- Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home opens in a new window
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- Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)
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