Edward L. Bernays papers

LC control no.	mm 78012534
Type of material	Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)
Personal name	Bernays, Edward L., 1891-1995. » More like this
Main title	Edward L. Bernays papers, 1777-1994 (bulk 1920-1990).
Related names	Bernays, Doris Fleischman, 1891- Wife is many women. 1955. » More like this Bernays, Edward L., 1891-1995. Biography of an idea. 1965. » More like this
Description	227,000 items. 860 containers plus 54 oversize. 160.2 linear feet.
Organized/Arranged	Part I is arranged in 11 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 7 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 7 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.
Access advisory	Open to research.
Invalid LCCN	su 78012534
Biography/History note	Public relations consultant.
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.
Notes	Most photographs and a volume of rotogravure etchings: transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Some single-issue newspapers: transferred to Library of Congress Serial and Government Publications Division. Sound recordings: transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Collection material in English. MSS12534
Finding aids	Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003016>
Acquisition source	Deposits and gifts; deposits later converted to gift, Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Bernays, 1966-1995.
Subjects	Bern, Paul, 1889-1932--Correspondence. » More like this Bernays, Doris Fleischman, 1891---Correspondence. » More like this Black, Sam, 1915---Correspondence. » More like this Bolton, Frances Payne Bingham, 1885-1977--Correspondence. » More like this Boomer, Lucius M. (Lucius Messenger), 1878-1947--Correspondence. » More like this Boorstin, Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph), 1914-2004--Correspondence. » More like this Capehart, Homer E. (Homer Earl), 1897-1979--Correspondence. » More like this Cartier, Jacques, d. 1941--Correspondence. » More like this Chesley, Willoughby S.--Correspondence. » More like this Cowen, Myron M. (Myron Melvin), 1898-1965--Correspondence. » More like this Creel, George, 1876-1953--Correspondence. » More like this Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931--Anniversaries, etc. » More like this Filene, E. A. (Edward Albert), 1860-1937--Correspondence. » More like this Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939--Correspondence. » More like this Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958--Correspondence. » More like this Gerard, James Watson, 1867---Correspondence. » More like this Giannini, Amadeo Peter, 1870-1949--Correspondence. » More like this Goldman, Eric Frederick, 1915-1989--Correspondence. » More like this Hill, George W. (George Washington), 1884-1946--Correspondence. » More like this Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964. » More like this Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964--Correspondence. » More like this Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978--Correspondence. » More like this Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973--Correspondence. » More like this Kahn, Otto Hermann, 1867-1934--Correspondence. » More like this Klaw, Marc, 1858-1936--Correspondence. » More like this Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984--Correspondence. » More like this Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970--Correspondence. » More like this Lee, Ivy L. (Ivy Ledbetter), 1877-1934--Correspondence. » More like this Leinsdorf, Erich, 1912-1993--Correspondence. » More like this Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951--Correspondence. » More like this Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987--Correspondence. » More like this Luce, Henry Robinson, 1898-1967--Correspondence. » More like this Martin, William McChesney--Correspondence. » More like this McKee, Joseph V., d. 1956--Correspondence. » More like this Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Correspondence. » More like this Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964. » More like this Page, David, 1892-1989--Correspondence. » More like this Paley, William S. (William Samuel), 1901-1990--Correspondence. » More like this Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi, 1900-1990--Correspondence. » More like this Phelps, George H. (George Harrison), 1883-1945--Correspondence. » More like this Spanel, A. N. (Abram Nathaniel), 1901-1985--Correspondence. » More like this Spingarn, Arthur B. (Arthur Barnett), 1878-1971--Correspondence. » More like this Spivak, Lawrence E. (Lawrence Edmund), 1900-1994--Correspondence. » More like this Terhune, Albert Payson, 1872-1942--Correspondence. » More like this Wagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand), 1910---Correspondence. » More like this Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965--Correspondence. » More like this Ward, William B. (William Breining), 1884-1929--Correspondence. » More like this Whitman, Edmund S.--Correspondence. » More like this Bernays family. » More like this Freud family. » More like this New York (N.Y.). Mayor's Committee for the Commemoration of the Golden Anniversary of the City of New York. » More like this United States. President's Emergency Committee for Employment. » More like this Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation. » More like this American Nurses' Association. » More like this American Psychological Association. » More like this American Tobacco Company. » More like this Ballets russes. » More like this Bank of America. » More like this Book Publishers Research Institute. » More like this Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. » More like this Cartier (Firm) » More like this Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. » More like this Committee for America Self-Contained. » More like this Committee on the Cost of Medical Care. » More like this Edward L. Bernays Foundation. » More like this General Motors Corporation. » More like this Jacques Seligmann & Co. » More like this Mack Trucks, inc. » More like this Philco Radio and Television Corp. » More like this United Brewers Industrial Foundation. » More like this United Fruit Company. » More like this United States Information Agency. » More like this United States Sugar Beet Association. » More like this Ward Baking Company. » More like this Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes (1925 : Paris, France) » More like this Light's Golden Jubilee (1929) » More like this Advertising. » More like this Administrative agencies--United States. » More like this Aging. » More like this Cigarettes. » More like this Crime. » More like this Depressions--1929. » More like this Electric lighting--Anniversaries, etc. » More like this Korean War, 1950-1953--Diplomatic history. » More like this Loans. » More like this Mayors--New York (State)--New York--Election--1940. » More like this Arts--Public relations. » More like this Automobile industry and trade--Public relations. » More like this Bread industry--Public relations. » More like this Brewing industry--Public relations. » More like this Charities--Public relations. » More like this Financial institutions--Public relations. » More like this Health facilities--Public relations. » More like this Human ecology. » More like this Radio broadcasting--Public relations. » More like this Public relations. » More like this Public relations--Periodicals. » More like this Public relations--Pharmaceutical industry. » More like this Public relations and politics. » More like this Smoking. » More like this Stock Market Crash, 1929. » More like this Theater--New York (State)--New York. » More like this Vietnam War, 1961-1975. » More like this World politics--1933-1945. » More like this World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects. » More like this India--Foreign relations--United States. » More like this New York (N.Y.)--Economic conditions. » More like this United States--Foreign relations--India. » More like this Public relations consultants.
Local shelving no.	0553M 0554Q Oversize 0114N Small backlog (Unprocessed ac. 24,104)
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