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1. Carnegie Corporation Commonwealth Program 1911-1961. Front cover
Stackpole, Stephen H.
- Name: Stackpole, Stephen H. (Author)
- Format: books
- Date: 1962
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VIII. Printed Material. Box no. 2
- Abstract: Carnegie earmarked a portion of the endowment to be used for philanthropic purposes in Canada and what were then the British Colonies. This part of the endowment was first known as the Special Fund, then the British Dominions and Colonies Fund, and la ter the Commonwealth Program. Under the name of the International Program it continued until the early 1980s.
2. Carnegie Corporation Donations Volume "C"
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: books
- Date: between 1927 and 1928
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series I. Administrative Records, 1872-1996. I.C. Financial Record Books, 1872-1987. Flat Box 489
- Abstract: The first donations to Columbia University (Astronomy Observatory, Teachers College, College of Pharmacy, etc.) were made by Andrew Carnegie himself and go back to the early 1900s. The Corporation has worked with Columbia ever since, with total donat ions exceeding 20 million dollars. This is a small sample of reports, produced by various Columbia University affiliates under Carnegie Corporation grants.
3. Catalog of the Music Study Materials
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: books
- Date: January 1937
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.B. Reports on Grants, 1911-1983. Box no. 233
- Abstract: Distributing the “College Art Sets” and the “College Music Sets” to hundreds of institutions in the United States and British Commonwealth has been one of significant initiatives by the Carnegie Corporation during the 1920s-1930s. The art sets contain ed approximately 200 art history books, 1,500 mounted photographs of architecture, sculpture and painting, and small collections of original prints and textiles, all housed in specially made wood cabinet. The music sets contained an electric phonograph, over 800 records housed in a cabinet, 250 bound scores, and 129 books on musical subjects. The contents varied slightly over the years. More modest art sets were also distributed to secondary schools.
4. Columbia University Grant Report -- Bureau of Applied Social Research, Review of Educational Testing. Cover page
- Format: books
- Date: [Summer 1961]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.B. Reports on Grants, 1911-1983. Box no. 38
5. Columbia University Grant Report -- Conference on the African University and National Educational Development. Cover page
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: books
- Date: between September 8 and 18, 1964
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.B. Reports on Grants, 1911-1983. Box no. 39
- Abstract: The first donations to Columbia University (Astronomy Observatory, Teachers College, College of Pharmacy, etc.) were made by Andrew Carnegie himself and go back to the early 1900s. The Corporation has worked with Columbia ever since, with total donat ions exceeding 20 million dollars. This is a small sample of reports, produced by various Columbia University affiliates under Carnegie Corporation grants.
6. Columbia University Grant Report -- The Educational Future of Columbia University. Cover page
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: books
- Date: 1957
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.B. Reports on Grants, 1911-1983. Box no. 38
7. Commonwealth Program
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: books
- Date: 1920
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series I. Administrative Records, 1872-1996. I.C. Financial Record Books, 1872-1987. Flat Box 493
- Abstract: A page from an oversized volume of commonwealth program grants. Each page of the volume contains a brief description, while a complete story behind each grant, its origins and results, is told in the corresponding grant file.
8. The Corporation and the Promotion of Science. Cover page
Lester, Robert M. (Robert MacDonald), 1889-1969
- Name: Lester, Robert M. (Robert MacDonald), 1889-1969 (Author)
- Format: books
- Date: 1944
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VIII. Printed Material. VIII.A. CCNY Publications. Box no. 3
- Abstract: This early brochure from the Carnegie Corporation of New York Review Series, written by the Corporation's Secretary, summarizes the first 30 years of Carnegie Corporation grants aimed at fostering scientific research.
9. Higher Education in Tanzania: A Case Study. Front cover
Mkude, Daniel J.
- Name: Mkude, Daniel J. (Author) Cooksey, Brian (Author) Levey, Lisbeth A. (Author)
- Format: books
- Date: 2003
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.G.. Box no. 9
- Abstract: This publication was produced by the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa (PHEA), a coordinated initiative of grant-making support to strengthen African universities among seven United States-based philanthropic foundations in 2000-2010, bringin g Carnegie Corporation's educational initiatives to the twenty-first century.
10. Invocation in Memory of Andrew Carnegie, His Life and Work. Front cover
Merrill, William P., 1867-1954
- Name: Merrill, William P., 1867-1954 (Author)
- Format: books
- Date: April 25, 1920
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
- Abstract: Proceedings of a meeting held under the auspices of the Authors Club, the New York Public Library, the Oratorio Society, the Saint Andrews Society, the United Engineering Society-all of them beneficiaries of Carnegie's largesse.
11. Louvain : la Renaissance -- resurrected. Front cover
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: books
- Date: [between 1918 and 1947]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
- Abstract: Booklet of “Before” and “After” Photographs of Louvain Post-War Reconstruction
12. A Manual of the Public Benefactions of Andrew Carnegie. Table of Contents
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: books
- Date: 1919
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VIII. Printed Material. VIII.B. Re: CCNY, 1907-1996. Vol 80
- Abstract: Put together soon after Andrew Carnegie's death, the manual lists his major philanthropic projects, foundations he established along with their deeds of gift, and a brief history of their achievements up to date.
13. Medical Education in the United States and Canada. Title page
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- Format: books
- Date: 1910
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
- Abstract: This report by Abraham Flexner (1866-1959) described 155 U.S. and Canadian medical schools, examined the state of American medical education and led to dramatic changes in the way doctors were trained, and influenced many studies of academic quality.
14. Ph.D.'s and the Academic Labor Market. Cover page; A Report Prepared for The Carnegie Commission on Higher Education
Cartter, Allan M. (Allan Murray), 1922-1976
- Format: books
- Date: 1968-1980
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records. Series VIII. Printed Material. Boxes 120, 128, 141
- Abstract: In 1967 the CFAT received a Carnegie Corporation grant to study the various aspects of contemporary higher education. Clark Kerr, then the president of the University of California, agreed to chair the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education. Over th e course of their existence, the Commission, and its successor organization the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education assembled a wealth of data and published 163 influential monographs, and dozens of pamphlets and brochures.
15. Public Television, a Program for Action: the report and recommendations of the Carnegie Commission on Educational Television. Front cover
Carnegie Commission on Educational Television
- Name: Carnegie Commission on Educational Television (Author)
- Format: books
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VIII. Printed Material
- Abstract: Growing recognition of the power of TV as an educator prompted formation of the Carnegie Commission on Educational Television, whose recommendations were adopted in the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the public broadcasting system.
16. Review of Grants to the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Cover page
Lester, Robert M. (Robert MacDonald), 1889-1969
- Name: Lester, Robert M. (Robert MacDonald), 1889-1969 (Author)
- Format: books
- Date: 1934
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records
- Abstract: In addition to the endowment of $22,000,000 from Andrew Carnegie, the Carnegie Institution of Washington received millions of dollars in grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Some of these grants went towards endowment or administration, s ome were intended for specific research projects, and some went through the Institution to other organizations.
17. South Africa: the Cordoned Heart. Front cover
Badsha, Omar
- Name: Wilson, Francis, 1939- (Author)
- Format: books
- Date: May 1986
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VIII. Printed Material. CO
- Abstract: Following Afrikaner political ascendance in 1951, the Corporation ceased grantmaking in South Africa for more than two decades. The Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa (the first one, focused on the poor white popul ation, was conducted in the 1930s) created to examine the legacies of apartheid and to make recommendations on achieving a democratic, interracial society, was started in the mid-1970s. One of the projects, funded by the Inquiry, this collection of 136 pictures taken by 20 South African photographers poignantly documents the evils of apartheid. It is accompanied by valuable text from presentations made at Carnegie-sponsored 1984 Cape Town conference.