In 2005, the Rockefeller Archive Center and the Smithsonian Institution Archives embarked on a three-year
Collaborative Electronic Records Project with the goal of developing a strategy and the means to preserve
historically important information created in electronic formats by depositors to the two institutions.
A parallel goal is to communicate the project’s results to other archivists.
John D. Rockefeller Sr. paid $118 for a diamond engagement ring on April 8, 1864. After he and his bride, Laura Spelman, were married on September 8, 1864, he paid $490 for their "Wedding Tour" to Niagara Falls and Montreal.
