Series III: General Files, 1881-2005, the general files are by no means the complete working files of the organization, but do represent the major personnel and activities of the Actors' Fund from its founding. Included are files on the Actors' Fund Home, on AIDS relief work and AIDS benefits, on establishing the monument at Kensico Cemetery, and on the Fund's Blood Banks and Blood Drives. The files contain correspondence on varied topics; of note are a telegram from then President Franklin D. Roosevelt and a note in support of the Fund from Thomas Edison. Also represented in the general files is material on particular individuals of prominence in the theatrical community and in the Fund's history and development, as well as financial material, press releases, clippings, souvenir programs and Playbills, and material on the Western Council, which supports the work of the Western regional office and programs based in Los Angeles.
