Rudolph W. Giuliani

Rudolph W. Giuliani served from 1994 through 2001 as the 107th Mayor of the City of New York. Prior to his two terms in City Hall, he was best known for his work as U.S. Attorney and while Mayor attracted attention for his crackdown on petty crimes and the changes he instituted in the City’s policing. When the 9/11 attack occurred, Giuliani’s highly-visible leadership earned him an international reputation. He was Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2001.
 
When Mayor Giuliani left office at the end of 2001, Winthrop Group was hired to process the mayoral records so that the work would be accomplished quickly and the materials would be available for research. The Winthrop team of archivists and archives technicians processed, prepared for digitization, and then cataloged the first and larger installment of records in an environmentally-controlled facility before they were moved to the Municipal Archives. Because selected records and the 9/11-related documentation were needed by the incoming administration, a second group of records was transferred directly to the Municipal Archives where the Winthrop team continued the work. In the weeks after 9/11 the Mayor’s Office had received thousands of letters of support from around the world. As Winthrop’s Sylvia Kollar relates, working with these papers in New York just two years after the attacks was an intense experience.
 
All of the documentation processed and cataloged by Winthrop Group (mayoral correspondence, official documents, videos, etc.) constitute the official record of the Mayor and his chief officers for the two Giuliani administrations. A significant volume of these were digitized during the processing and are available online.