Albert D. Lasker papers

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Descriptive Summary

Title: Albert D. Lasker papers
Inclusive Dates: 1881-2015
Bulk Dates: 1920-1950
Collection Number: mssLasker papers
Creator: Lasker, Albert Davis, 1880-1952
Extent: Approximately 4,050 items in 38 boxes
Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Manuscripts Department
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Fax: (626) 449-3477
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: The collection reflects broadly the professional life of American businessman and philanthropist Albert D. Lasker, as well as other family members including Mary Lasker, Edward Lasker, Frances Lasker Brody, and Mary Lasker Block.
Language of Material: The records are in English.

Administration Information

Access

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of Item], Albert D. Lasker papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Acquisition Information

Gifts of Christopher Brody and Steven Lasker, October 2012.

Biography

Albert D. Lasker was an American businessman who is often considered to be the founder of modern advertising. Lasker, who was Jewish, was born in Germany in 1880 and raised in Galveston, Texas. In 1898 he moved to Chicago and got an advertising position at Lord & Thomas. In 1903, after Lord retired, Lasker purchased his share and became a partner. He purchased the firm in 1912. Lasker worked on and created advertising for several large companies including: Lucky Strikes, Palmolive, Pepsodent, Kotex, and Kleenex. In 1921, President Harding appointed Lasker to the United States Shipping Board; he served for two years. After thirty years at Lord & Thomas, Lasker sold the firm to three senior executives. Lasker and his third wife, Mary, became nationally prominent art collectors and philanthropists. Together they founded and endowed the Lasker Award, which has recognized the work of many leading scientists and researchers, particularly in the field of medical research. His uncle was German liberal politician Eduard Lasker. Albert D. Lasker died in 1952.
Albert D. Lasker married Flora Warner in 1902. They had three children, all of whom became prominent figures in their fields of interest: Mary Lasker Block (b.1904) established the Block Museum in Chicago along with her husband Leigh B. Block; Edward Lasker (b.1912) was a successful businessman, lawyer, and thoroughbred racehorse owner; and Frances Lasker Brody (b.1916), art collector and philanthropist, became a founding benefactor of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and a guiding patron of the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Gardens. After the sudden death of his wife, Flora, in 1936, Lasker was briefly married to actress Doris Kenyon. In 1940, Lasker married Mary Reinhardt; they were married until his death.

Scope and Content

The collection spans Albert D. Lasker's entire life and his family up to the 21st century. The majority of the collection is made up of interviews and research conducted by Boyden Sparkes, who Albert D. Lasker had hired to ghost-write his autobiography in 1938 (not for publication). This includes interviews with Lasker himself, family members, colleagues, and fellow businessmen, and covers Lasker's early life and his career in both advertising, art collecting, and philanthropy. There is also some material about Lasker's involvement in the defense of Leo Frank, a Jewish American factory superintendent, in Georgia, who was convicted of the murder of a 13-year-old girl; Frabk was ultimately taken from prison and lynched in August 1915. There is also material about Lasker's family including: his first wife Flora, their three children (and their families), his brief marriage to Doris Kenyon, and his third wife Mary Woodard Lasker. There is also some material about his father Morris Lasker and his life in Galveston, Texas. There is a small amount of material about Edward Lasker's career with horse racing and about his second wife American actress Jane Greer.
The collection includes a large amount of ephemera, scrapbooks, photograph albums, and loose (and framed) photographs and portraits. Also included are several audio-visual items, published books, and a Grammy Award.
Many of the photographs in the photograph albums are loose or coming loose.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in the following series: Albert D. Lasker Material (Boxes 1-9); Lord & Thomas Material (Boxes 10-11); Family Files (Boxes 12-16); Photographs/Scrapbooks (Boxes 17-32); Ephemera (Boxes 33-35); Audio-Visual Material (Box 36); and Books (Boxes 37-38). The material is arranged in alphabetical order within each series.

Indexing Terms

Personal Names

Block, Leigh B., 1905-1987
Block, Leigh B., Mrs., 1904-
Brody, Frances Lasker
Brody, Sidney F.
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915
Greer, Jane, 1924-2001
Howard, Roy Wilson, 1883-1964
Kenyon, Doris, 1897-1979
Lasker, Albert Davis, 1880-1952 -- Archives
Lasker, Eduard, 1829-1884
Lasker, Edward, 1912-1997
Lasker, Mary
Lasker, Morris, 1840-1916
Rubicam, Raymond, 1892-1978
Sparkes, Boyden, 1890-1954

Corporate Names

American Tobacco Company
Lord & Thomas

Subjects

Advertising agencies -- Illinois -- Chicago
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- United States
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Archives
Jews -- United States
Philanthropists -- United States -- Archives

Genre

Family papers -- United States -- 20th century
Personal papers -- United States -- 20th century
Professional papers -- United States -- 20th century
Research (document genres) -- United States -- 20th century


 

Albert D. Lasker Material

Physical Description: Boxes 1-9
Box 1

1940 Republican Convention - Don Francisco Interview

Folder 1

1940 Republican Convention (1940)

2 items
Folder 2

Ability to Pick Right Words [1938]

3 items
Folder 3

Absentee Golf (1938)

4 items
Folder 4

After Death (1952)

4 items
Folder 5

Agent's Role ([1938]

1 item
Folder 6

Albany Academy (1929)

2 items
Folder 7

American Jewish Committee (1950-1951)

6 items
Folder 8

Moses Annenberg Interview [1938]

1 item
Folder 9

Art in Advertising [1938]

2 items
Folder 10

Article in The Nation re: Ken (1938)

8 items
Folder 11

F. Wayland Ayer and N. W. Ayer [1938]

2 items
Folder 12

Bayer Aspirin [1938]

1 item
Folder 13

Benson Interview [1938]

3 items. Three copies.
Folder 14

Paul Block Interview (1938, Apr. 15)

1 item. With edits.
Folder 15

Breakfast Food Boom [1938]

3 items
Folder 16

Arthur Brisbane [1938]

1 item
Folder 17

Elmer Bullis Interview (1937, Oct. 27)

2 items. Two copies.
Folder 18

Business Man [1938]

3 items
Folder 19

Calkins Interview [1938]

1 item
Folder 20

E. Milton Clasen Interview (1938, May 25)

1 item
Folder 21

Cloud Club (1942, Apr.)

1 item
Folder 22

Competitors [1938]

1 item
Folder 23

Sheldon Coons Interview (1938, Mar. 25)

2 items. Two copies.
Folder 24

Robert P. Crane Interview [1938]

6 items
Folder 25

Dolly Cole [1938]

1 item
Folder 26

Thomas E. Dewey Interview (1939-1940)

4 items. Includes two press releases.
Folder 27

Early Days Advertising [1938]

1 item
Folder 28

Herbert Field Interview (1938)

14 items. With note by Frances Lasker Brody.
Folder 29

Don Francisco Interview (1937-1940)

7 items. Includes correspondence.
Box 2

Leo Frank Case - William G. Irwin Interview and Other Material

Folder 1

Leo Frank Case (1914-2000)

37 items
Folder 2

Leo Frank Case: Correspondence by Steve Oney to Frances Lasker Brody (1999-2000)

9 items. Includes notes by Frances Lasker Brody.
Folder 3

W. Franklin Interview [1938]

1 item
Folder 4

Kerwin Fulton Interview [1938]

3 items
Folder 5

Galveston [1938]

6 items
Folder 6

Howard Gans Interview [1938]

2 items
Folder 7

Getchell Interview [1938]

1 item
Folder 8

Gillette Razor [1938]

2 items
Folder 9

Bernard Gimbel (1939)

6 items
Folder 10

John Golden (1937-1938)

9 items
Folder 11

Golf [1938]

7 items
Folder 12

Governments [1938]

2 items
Folder 13

The Greatest Copywriter: Chapter 5 by Arthur W. Schultz (2004)

2 items. With letter by Arthur W. Schultz to Frances Lasker Brody.
Folder 14

H. M. Hackett Interview (1938, Mar. 18)

3 items. With note by Frances Lasker Brody.
Folder 15

Warren G. Harding (1935-1989)

3 items
Folder 16

Harding, Dougherty and their friend Lawyer Thompson [1938]

5 items
Folder 17

Will H. Hays (1938)

2 items
Folder 18

R. B. Hawley (1921-[1938])

7 items
Folder 19

Mrs. Charles R. Haynes (1938)

5 items
Folder 20

Fred Healy Interview [1938]

4 items
Folder 21

William Randolph Hearst Interview (1938, Oct. 15)

2 items. Two copies.
Folder 22

John Hertz Interview (1938, Apr. 29)

2 items
Folder 23

George W. Hill Interview and Other Material (1938-1940)

27 items. Includes photographs of tobacco plants.
Folder 24

Herbert Hoover [1938]

3 items
Folder 25

Claude Hopkins Interview [1938]

4 items
Folder 26

Roy Howard Correspondence on Anti-Semitism (1934-1935)

12 items
Folder 27

Edward Frank Hummert Interview (1938, Jan. 25)

1 item. Photocopy.
Folder 28

Interview Fragments [1938]

31 items
Folder 29

William G. Irwin Interview and Other Material (1938)

13 items
Box 3

Israel File - Albert D. Lasker Autobiography: incomplete draft (bound)

Folder 1

Israel File (1950)

52 items
Folder 2

Japan (1937)

5 items
Folder 3

W. T. Jefferson [1938]

8 items
Folder 4

Jewish Organizations and Affairs (1950-1951)

24 items
Folder 5

Jewishness [1938]

12 items
Folder 6

Jiffy Jell [1938]

4 items
Folder 7

William H. Johns Interview (1940, Sep. 6)

1 item
Folder 8

Hiram Johnson [1938]

2 items
Folder 9

Jones's Farm Sausage [1938]

1 item
Folder 10

Eugene Katz (1937-1940)

4 items
Folder 11

Mrs. Eugene Katz Interview (1937, Dec. 16)

1 item
Folder 12

John E. Kennedy (1933-[1938])

3 items
Folder 13

Lasker Foundation (1939-1945)

15 items
Folder 14

Albert D. Lasker Autobiography: draft pages [1938]

4 items
Folder 15

Albert D. Lasker Autobiography: miscellaneous pages [1938]

5 items
Folder 16

Albert D. Lasker Autobiography: incomplete draft (photocopy) [1938]

1 item
Folder 17

Albert D. Lasker Autobiography: incomplete draft (bound) [1938]

2 items. Two copies.
Box 4

Albert D. Lasker Autobiography: complete copy (bound) - Albert D. Lasker Interviews (miscellaneous pages; incomplete)

Folder 1

Albert D. Lasker Autobiography: complete copy (bound) [1938]

1 item
Folder 2

Albert D. Lasker and William G. Harding (1923-[1938])

3 items
Folder 3

Albert D. Lasker Arizona Trip Summer 1939 (1939)

29 items
Folder 4

Albert D. Lasker as Executive [1938]

3 items
Folder 5

Albert D. Lasker Biographies [1952-1985]

5 items
Folder 6

Albert D. Lasker Birthday Wishes (1952, May)

92 items
Folder 7

Albert D. Lasker Cardiogram (1931-1937)

36 items
Folder 8

Albert D. Lasker California '38 (1938-1939)

19 items
Folder 9

Albert D. Lasker Correspondence before Trip '37 (1937)

169 items
Folder 10

Albert D. Lasker Correspondence: Sympathy for Flora Lasker's Death (1936-1937)

84 items. With note by Frances Lasker Brody.
Folder 11

Albert D. Lasker Cross-Examination [after 1940]

1 item
Folder 12

Albert D. Lasker Energy [1938]

2 items
Folder 13

Albert D. Lasker First Experience with Lord & Thomas [1938]

6 items
Folder 14

Albert D. Lasker Interviews (miscellaneous pages; incomplete) (1937)

3 items. Photocopies.
Box 5

Albert D. Lasker Interviews (miscellaneous pages; incomplete) - Albert D. Lasker Outside Interviews 1940 A-L

Folder 1

Albert D. Lasker Interviews (miscellaneous pages; incomplete) (1937)

9 items
Folder 2

Albert D. Lasker Interviews (complete; bound) (1937-1996)

2 items. Photocopy. With letter from Morris Lasker to Edward Lasker, 1996, Nov. 14.
Folder 3

Albert D. Lasker letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt (1938, Dec. 12)

2 items. Two copies.
Folder 4

Albert D. Lasker Miscellaneous Correspondence (1917-1996)

34 items. Includes letter by Gary Cohen to Edward Lasker and Frances Lasker Brody. 1996, Aug. 22.
Folder 5

Albert D. Lasker Miscellaneous Notes [1938]

11 items
Folder 6

Albert D. Lasker Newspaper Clippings (Photocopies) (1920-1973)

60 items
Folder 7

Albert D. Lasker on birth of Frances Lasker Brody [1938]

2 items
Folder 8

Albert D. Lasker Outside Interviews A-F (1938)

5 items
Folder 9

Albert D. Lasker Outside Interviews G-J (1938)

3 items
Folder 10

Albert D. Lasker Outside Interviews K-O (1937-1938)

5 items
Folder 11

Albert D. Lasker Outside Interviews 1940 A-L [1940]

8 items
Box 6

Albert D. Lasker Personal Items - Miscellaneous Invitations, Replies, etc.

Folder 1

Albert D. Lasker Personal Items (1938-1939)

5 items
Folder 2

Albert D. Lasker Photograph Lists [after 1936]

2 items
Folder 3

Photocopies of Material in University of Chicago Library (1923-1960)

5 items. Cannot be copied.
Folder 4

Albert D. Lasker "The Reminiscences of Albert Davis Lasker" [1950]

2 items. Photocopy. With post-it with note to Frances Lasker Brody.
Folder 5

Albert D. Lasker, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Howard Taft [1938]

2 items
Folder 6

Albert D. Lasker speech to Lord & Thomas (1925, Apr. 4)

1 item. Photocopy.
Folder 7

Albert D. Lasker Tax Petition (1938, Sep. 8)

1 item
Folder 8

Flora Warner Lasker Letter [approximately 1900]

2 items. Typescript. With post-its with notes by Frances Lasker Brody.
Folder 9

Harry Lasker [before 1921-1938]

17 items
Folder 10

Lists of Names: Announcements and Invitations [before 1952]

7 items
Folder 11

Lists of Names: Miscellaneous (1938)

8 items
Folder 12

Lists of Names: Party Attendance (1935-1937)

9 items
Folder 13

Lists of Names: Sympathy [1936]

2 items
Folder 14

Albert D. Lasker Reception [1938]

approximately 50 items
Folder 15

Miscellaneous Invitations, Replies, etc. [1937-1938]

approximately 50 items
Folder 16

Miscellaneous Invitations, Replies, etc. [1938]

approximately 50 items
Box 7

Weidman Lee Interview - Raymond Rubicam Interview

Folder 1

Weidman Lee Interview [1938]

2 items. Two copies.
Folder 2

Life Savers (1916)

1 item
Folder 3

M M Interview [1938]

1 item
Folder 4

Samuel A. Marx Correspondence (1938)

3 items
Folder 5

Milton Mayer Article and University of Chicago (1942)

143 items
Folder 6

Miami Beach (1939)

14 items
Folder 7

Mill Road Farm Party (1939)

34 items
Folder 8

Frank Morrison Interview (1940, Jan. 19)

2 items. Two copies.
Folder 9

Movie Stars (1932-1934)

11 items
Folder 10

Movie Ventures [1938]

3 items
Folder 11

Mum (1931, Dec. 17)

1 item
Folder 12

Frank Munsey Feud [1938]

5 items
Folder 13

Conde Nast (1938)

2 items
Folder 14

David Noyes Interview (1937)

4 items
Folder 15

Mark O'Dea Interview (1937, Dec. 3)

2 items. Two copies.
Folder 16

Old Advertising Methods (1904, Aug.)

5 items
Folder 17

R. M. Owen Interview (1938, Apr. 6)

1 item
Folder 18

Potsum Plant History (1938, Feb. 9)

1 item
Folder 19

Receipts-Vault, etc. (1931-1942)

15 items
Folder 20

Stanley Resor Interview and Notes (1940)

2 items
Folder 21

Roosevelts [1938]

1 item
Folder 22

Raymond Rubicam Interview [1938]

2 items
Box 8

William R. Sachse - W. S. Yerks Interview

Folder 1

William R. Sachse (1938-1939)

41 items
Folder 2

David Sarnoff Interview [1938]

1 item
Folder 3

Scholl's Foot Comfort Service (1933, July 5)

1 item
Folder 4

Arthur W. Schultz (1974-2003)

15 items
Folder 5

Mark Seelen Interview [1938]

1 item
Folder 6

Shipping Board (1921-1938)

34 items
Folder 7

Boyden Sparkes Assignments, Scenes, and Correspondence (1936-1938)

53 items. With notes by Frances Lasker Brody.
Folder 8

Boyden Sparkes Photographs for Lasker Autobiography (1937-1938)

34 items
Folder 9

Mark Sullivan Interview (1937, Nov. 30)

1 item
Folder 10

Walter Teagle Interview (1938, Mar. 15)

2 items
Folder 11

Walter Templin Interview (1938, Mar. 21)

2 items
Folder 12

University of Chicago (1942)

36 items
Folder 13

Henrietta Warner Correspondence (1939)

2 items. One item is ripped.
Folder 14

Elisha Waterman Interview [1938]

2 items. Two copies.
Folder 15

Woodrow Wilson's letter to Charles A. Culbertson (1916, May 5)

1 item. Copy.
Folder 16

Jesse Wineburgh Interview [1938]

3 items
Folder 17

John K. Winkler Correspondence (1939-1940)

13 items
Folder 18

W. S. Yerks Interview [1938]

1 item
Box 9

Birth of Modern Advertising - An Illustrated History by Robert J. Koretz: Parts 1-3

Folder 1

Birth of Modern Advertising - An Illustrated History by Robert J. Koretz: Part I (1928, Mar.)

1 item. Bound copy.
Folder 2

Birth of Modern Advertising - An Illustrated History by Robert J. Koretz: Part II (1928, Mar.)

1 item. Bound copy.
Folder 3

Birth of Modern Advertising - An Illustrated History by Robert J. Koretz: Part III (1928, Mar.)

1 item. Bound copy.
 

Lord & Thomas Material

Physical Description: Boxes 10-11
Box 10

Address of Albert D. Lasker before the Agate Club - Lord & Thomas Chapters

Folder 1

Address of Albert D. Lasker before the Agate Club (1925, May 8)

1 item. Photocopy.
Folder 2

Advertising: Ever Changing, Yet Unchangeable by Albert D. Lasker (1936)

4 items. With three memos.
Folder 3

Advertising World (1935, July)

1 item
Folder 4

The Agent and the Advertiser by Albert D. Lasker [approximately 1942]

2 items. Two copies.
Folder 5

American Tobacco Company (1935-1939)

11 items
Folder 6

Borden's (1899-1938)

20 items
Folder 7

Breakfast Food Boom [1938]

1 item
Folder 8

California Fruit Growers Exchange [1938]

1 item
Folder 9

Career [1938]

19 items
Folder 10

Chronology (1901-1936)

17 items
Folder 11

Coupons [undated]

2 items. Two copies.
Folder 12

Don Francisco Announcement (1938)

29 items
Folder 13

Growth of Advertising (1912-1938)

18 items
Folder 14

George W. Hill Correspondence with Albert D. Lasker (1937-1951)

24 items. Some are photocopies. With original envelope from Gary Cohen to Frances Lasker Brody.
Folder 15

Labor Unions vs. Post [before 1914]

2 items.
Folder 16

Albert D. Lasker's 40th Year with Lord & Thomas (1938)

7 items
Folder 17

Lord & Thomas Advertising (1904-1928)

62 items
Folder 18

Lord & Thomas Correspondence (1919-1943)

12 items
Folder 19

Lord & Thomas History (1897-1938)

30 items
Folder 20

Lord & Thomas Accounts - 1912-1917 (1917)

2 items
Folder 21

Lord & Thomas Accounts - 1927 (1927)

2 items
Folder 22

Lord & Thomas Chapters [1938]

1 item
Box 11

Lord & Thomas Manager Meeting - William Wrigley, Jr.

Folder 1

Lord & Thomas Manager Meeting (1940)

3 items. Photocopies.
Folder 2

The Make it Singer-ers (1936)

1 item
Folder 3

Arthur W. Marquette letter to Albert D. Lasker (1937-1938)

2 items. With note.
Folder 4

Miscellaneous Printed Items (1943)

2 items
Folder 5

Owen Magnetic Car (1916-1938)

2 items
Folder 6

Palmolive (1933-1938)

9 items
Folder 7

Pepsodent (1938)

14 items
Folder 8

Photographs in Albert D. Lasker's Offices (1940)

5 items. Includes two photographs.
Folder 9

Proceedings Meeting of Representatives of Lord & Thomas held at the Wrigley Building, Chicago (1925, Apr. 4)

1 item. Copy.
Folder 10

Quaker Oats (1928-1930)

5 items
Folder 11

Rheinstrom Bros. (1938)

7 items
Folder 12

Royal Baking Powder (1926-[1938])

2 items
Folder 13

Salesmanship in Print by Albert D. Lasker [approximately 1942]

8 items. Includes draft with handwritten edits and final printed version.
Folder 14

Sunkist (1908-1940)

15 items
Folder 15

Teacher in Advertising [1938]

18 items
Folder 16

Van Camp [1938]

1 item. Photocopy.
Folder 17

The Why of Reason Why Copy by Albert D. Lasker [approximately 1942]

2 items
Folder 18

Wilson Ear Drum Co. (1937-1938)

5 items
Folder 19

Woolworth's [1938]

6 items
Folder 20

William Wrigley, Jr. (1921-1923)

1 item
 

Family Files

Physical Description: Boxes 12-16
Box 12

Mary and Leigh Block - Albert D. Lasker Trip Itinerary

Folder 1

Mary and Leigh Block - 1946-1949 (1946-1949)

119 items
Folder 2

Mary and Leigh Block - 1950-1983 (1950-1983)

125 items
Folder 3

Mary and Leigh Block's Wedding (1942)

132 items
Folder 4

Elsa Cohen's Death - Sympathy (1931)

43 items
Folder 5

Doris Kenyon (1938-1939)

12 items
Folder 6

Albert D. Lasker 50th Birthday (1930)

97 items
Folder 7

Albert D. Lasker 59th Birthday (1939)

70 items
Folder 8

Albert D. Lasker - Doris Kenyon Wedding - Publicity (1938)

39 items
Folder 9

Albert D. Lasker - Doris Kenyon Wedding - Well Wishes (1938)

115 items
Folder 10

Albert D. Lasker letter to Morris Lasker ([1901], Aug.)

1 item
Folder 11

Albert D. Lasker letters to "My Dear Children" (1935-1937)

2 items
Folder 12

Albert D. Lasker Relatives (1939)

18 items
Folder 13

Albert D. Lasker Trip Itinerary (1937)

4 items
Box 13

Eduard Lasker - Edward Lasker

Folder 1

Eduard Lasker (1967)

5 items
Folder 2

Eduard Lasker: A Political German by Henriette D. Hoffman [undated]

2 items. Two copies.
Folder 3

Edward Lasker (brother) (1936-1996)

110 items
Folder 4

Edward Lasker (son) (1950-1999)

8 items
Folder 5

Edward Lasker (son) Correspondence (1959-1996)

6 items
Folder 6

Edward Lasker (son) Memoirs: Of Me I Sing [before 1997]

1 item
Box 14

Flora Lasker - Loula Lasker

Folder 1

Flora Lasker's Death - Clippings (1936)

17 items
Folder 2

Flora Lasker's Death - Sympathy (1936-1937)

140 items
Folder 3

Flora Lasker's Death - Funeral (1936, Dec. 21)

1 item
Folder 4

Florina Lasker Correspondence (1938-1939)

35 items
Folder 5

Florina Lasker and Loula Lasker (1943-1949)

110 items
Folder 6

Loula Lasker (1938-1951)

96 items
Box 15

Mary Lasker

Folder 1

Mary Lasker Correspondence (1953-1993)

15 items
Folder 2

Mary Lasker Correspondence With Albert D. Lasker (1939-1941)

24 items. Includes 4 newspaper clippings.
Folder 3

Mary Lasker Ephemera (1994-2009)

4 items
Folder 4

Mary Lasker Estate (1994-1996)

7 items. Includes notes by Frances Lasker Brody.
Folder 5

Mary Lasker Papers - Columbia University [2000]

2 items. With envelope and note by Frances Lasker Brody.
Folder 6

Mary Lasker re: Albert D. Lasker (1994, Feb. 25)

1 item
Folder 7

Mary Lasker Tribute and Obituaries (1994)

3 items
Box 16

Jack Johnson Interview re: Morris Lasker - Louetta Lasker Rosensohn

Folder 1

Jack Johnson Interview re: Morris Lasker (1938, May 9)

1 item
Folder 2

Loula Lasker and Florina Lasker Interview re: Morris Lasker (1937, Nov. 3)

1 item. Photocopy.
Folder 3

Morris Lasker - A Letter from a Texas Pioneer in The Menorah Journal (1936)

1 item. Also: note about article in journal.
Folder 4

Morris Lasker and Texas (1901-1938)

16 items
Folder 5

Morris Lasker Biography and Clipping (1936-1994)

2 items
Folder 6

Morris Lasker by Henry Cohen [undated]

1 item
Folder 7

Morris Lasker Flour Mill in Texas (1919-1939)

52 items
Folder 8

Morris Lasker House (1966-1968)

2 items
Folder 9

Morris Lasker letter to Henry Cohen (1913, Sep. 18)

1item
Folder 10

Morris Lasker letter to Leo Rohr (1914, Nov. 10)

1 item. Copy.
Folder 11

Morris Lasker letter to A. Sanger (1909, Jan. 1)

3 items. Two copies of letter and note by Edward Lasker.
Folder 12

Morris Lasker letters to his Children (1914)

5 items. Also: photocopies of the letters.
Folder 13

Morris Lasker letters to Henry Feilchenfeld (1915)

3 items. Copies. Also: three photocopies.
Folder 14

Morris Lasker letters to Albert D. Lasker (1914-1915)

13 items. Also: photocopies of some of the letters.
Folder 15

Morris Lasker letters to Edward Lasker (son) (1913-1915)

10 items. Also: photocopies of the letters.
Folder 16

Morris Lasker: Pioneer 1840-1916 [1940]

1 item
Folder 17

Sparkes-Lasker Interviews re: Morris Lasker [approximately 1938]

1 item
Folder 18

Boyden Sparkes notes re: Morris Lasker [approximately 1938]

1 item
Folder 19

Louetta Lasker Rosensohn (1938-1950)

113 items
Folder 20

Louetta Lasker Rosensohn Letters [undated]

2 items
 

Photographs, Photo Albums, and Scrapbooks

Physical Description: Boxes 17-32
Box 17

Flora Lasker Photographs - Miscellaneous and Unidentified Photographs

Folder 1

Flora Lasker Photographs [approximately 1910]

5 items
Folder 2

Mary Lasker Block Photographs [1905-approximately 1950]

5 items
Folder 3

Mary Lasker Block and Edward Lasker Photographs [1913]

2 items
Folder 4

Galveston Photographs [approximately 1910-approximately 1930]

12 items
Folder 5

Mill Road Photographs (1940)

14 items
Folder 6

Miscellaneous and Unidentified Photographs [undated]

19 items
Box 18

Albert D. Lasker Photographs - Flora Lasker Photographs (oversize)

Folder 1

Albert D. Lasker Photographs (oversize) [approximately 1881-1953]

42 items
Folder 2

Albert D. Lasker and Edward Lasker Photographs (oversize) [approximately 1917-approximately 1950)

4 items
Folder 3

Mary Woodard Lasker Photographs (oversize) [1940s]

3 items
Folder 4

Flora Lasker Photographs (oversize) [approximately 1910]

7 items
Box 19

Edward Lasker Photographs (oversize)

[1913-1972] 25 items
Box 20

Edward Lasker and Family Photographs (oversize)

(1947-2008) 59 items
Box 21

Edward Lasker Photographs (framed, oversize)

(1913-1917) 2 items
Box 22

Edward Lasker Photographs (framed, oversize)

[1917-approximately 1950] 3 items
Box 23

Edward Lasker and Family Photographs (framed, oversize)

[approximately 1950] 4 items
Box 24

Edward Lasker and Mary Lasker Block Photographs (framed, oversize)

[1913] 2 items
Box 25

Mill Road Farm Scrapbook, Photo Album, and Operation Ledger (oversize)

(1928-1941) 4 items
Box 26

Albert D. Lasker Shipping Board Clippings - Scrapbook (oversize)

(1921-1944) 1 item
Box 27

Albert D. Lasker Photograph Album (oversize)

(1885-1952) 1 item
Box 28

Albert D. Lasker Photograph Album (oversize)

([1950]-1952) 1 item
Box 29

Albert D. Lasker Letters and Telegrams after his Death - Scrapbook (oversize)

(1952) 1 item
Box 30

Albert D. Lasker Obituaries - Scrapbook (oversize)

(1952) 1 item
Box 31

Albert D. Lasker Obituaries, Editorials, Contributions, etc. - Scrapbook (oversize)

(1952) 1 item
Box 32

Edward Lasker Horse Racing - Scrapbook (oversize)

(1945-1954) 1 item. Includes several loose items including photographs.
 

Ephemera

Physical Description: Boxes 33-35
Box 33

Albert D. Lasker - Miscellaneous Ephemera

Folder 1

Albert D. Lasker Ephemera (1933-2012)

23 items
Folder 2

Frances Lasker Brody Ephemera (1969-2010)

25 items
Folder 3

Galveston Ephemera (1855-1972)

8 items
Folder 4

Miscellaneous Ephemera (1937-2003)

9 items
Box 34

Albert D. Lasker - Jane Greer (oversize)

Folder 1

Albert D. Lasker Ephemera (oversize) (1960-1999)

3 items
Folder 2

Jane Greer Ephemera (oversize) (1947-2001)

5 items
Box 35

Steven Lasker Grammy Award

1 item
 

Audio-Visual Items

Physical Description: Box 36
Box 36

Audio-Visual Items

9 items. Includes: reel-to-reel interview with Mary Lasker on Person to Person by Edward R. Murrow, 4 VHS tapes of family vacations, one VHS of a Turner Classic Movie program related to Jane Greer, 3 disks with family films and and an interview with Albert D. Lasker, and a Blu-ray copy of Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies
 

Books

Physical Description: Boxes 37-38
Box 37

Books

6 items. Includes: Taken at the Flood, The Lasker Story, 5 Giants of Advertising, The Man Who Sold America, The Albert D. Lasker Collection, and An Exhibition of Sixty-Nine Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. Albert D. Lasker.
Box 38

Books

6 items. Includes: William Brice: Revelatory Nature, The Leo Frank Case, The Emperor of All Maladies, Early Film Noir, Dark City Dames, and The RKO Gals.