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Doris B. Foster and Jenifer M. Hoyt papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 6804

Scope and content

Letters, photographs, clippings, pamphlets, and books relating to the Rockefeller Foundation; photographs inscribed to Doris Foster or Jenifer Hoyt; family photographs and albums; correspondence between Jennie Hoyt and Doris Foster; Jennie Hoyt family correspondence from England and Sweden; files on painting. Includes letter from John D. Rockefeller to Herbert Hoover and letter from Hoover to Rockefeller.

Dates

1916-1997.

Creator

Foster, Doris B. (Person)
Hoyt, Jenifer M. (Person)

Language of Material

English.

Biographical / Historical

Doris B. Foster was the Head of Reference Service for the Rockefeller Foundation.

Biographical / Historical

Jenifer (Jennie Marie) Hoyt was an amateur artist and the daughter of William Glenn Hoyt, Class of 1909. Miss Hoyt and Miss Foster provided bequests for the William G. Hoyt Memorial Scholarship at Cornell.