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1. Benefits of Workingman's Club
Gayley, James
- Name: Gayley, James (Signer)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: [1900]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 60
- Abstract: Document, listing the benefits of “Workingman’s Clubs,” is signed by James Gayley, a well-known metallurgist and inventor at the Carnegie Steel Company, who in 1901 became the first vice president of the newly formed United States Steel Corporation.
2. Call for the First Board Meeting
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: correspondence
- Date: November 1, 1911
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series I. Administrative Records, 1872-1996. I.A. Secretary's Office Records, 1911-1977. I.A.1. Board Minutes, 1911-1944. Box no. 1
3. Carnegie Corporation Grant Disbursement Sheet for New York Academy of Medicine
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: correspondence
- Date: 1925
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 263
- Abstract: Carnegie Corporation of New York grant files document several years of planning, search for an appropriate site, and other activities related to the building of a new home for the Academy. Later the Corporation also gave grants for various studies, f or medical information service, and for development of the library.
4. Carnegie Corporation of New York Disbursement Sheet for the grant to Brookings Institution
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: correspondence
- Date: November 25, 1928
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 64
- Abstract: In 1927, the Institute of Economics, Institute for Government Research, and Robert S. Brookings Graduate School of Economics & Government merged to become Brookings Institution. Once again, Robert Brookings came forth with the initiative, and Carnegie Corporation of New York provided the funding.
5. Carnegie Library and Workingman's Club in Braddock, Pennsylvania, USA
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: correspondence
- Date: [1900]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 60
- Abstract: Carnegie built the free libraries in Braddock (1895), Homestead (1896) and Duquesne (1901) to serve the employees of Carnegie Steel Company mills in those towns, and their families. In the beginning, the local steel mill would subsidize the libraries in Braddock and Homestead. In addition to the libraries, Braddock, Duquesne and Homestead institutions housed “Workingman's Clubs," with gymnasiums, bowling alleys, swimming pools, night school rooms, kindergartens, and assembly halls.
6. Columbia University List of Faculty
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- Format: correspondence
- Date: August 1905
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
7. Deed of Gift for the Andrew Carnegie Relief Fund
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: correspondence
- Date: March 12, 1901
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 60
- Abstract: Andrew Carnegie’s first post-retirement project was establishing a pension and relief fund for old or injured employees of the Carnegie Company. In this letter to the Board of Directors he announces a gift of $4,000,000, to be held in trust for this purpose. “I make this first use of surplus wealth upon retiring from business as an acknowledgement of the debt which I owe to the workmen who have contributed so greatly to my success.” The same document also stipulates a separate $1,000,000 endowment for Braddock, Homestead and Duquesne libraries.
8. The Final version of the first Deed of Gift to the Carnegie Corporation of New York
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: November 10, 1911
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series I. Administrative Records, 1872-1996. I.F. General Files, 1911-1987. Box no. 11
9. Invitation to the first meeting sent to each of 28 trustees
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: December 7, 1910
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
10. Letter and Accompanying Memorandum Relative to the Establishment of an Institute of Economics. Front cover
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: correspondence
- Date: 1922
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 179
11. Letter to Andrew Carnegie
Root, Elihu, 1845-1937
- Name: Root, Elihu, 1845-1937 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: June 24, 1911
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series I. Administrative Records, 1872-1996. I.F. General Files, 1911-1987. Box no. 11
- Abstract: In this letter immediately following the Corporation's approval by the Assembly and the Governor of the State of New York, Elihu Root praises the charter and discusses future plans for the Corporation.
12. Letter to Carnegie Foundation regarding the First Church Organ donated by Andrew Carnegie
Heddaeus, Ray L.
- Name: Heddaeus, Ray L. (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: October 23, 1935
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VII. Andrew Carnegie. VII.A. CCNY Carnegie Files. Box no. 3
13. Letter to Frederick P. Keppel, President of Carnegie Corporation
Brookings, Robert S. (Robert Somers), 1850-1932
- Name: Brookings, Robert S. (Robert Somers), 1850-1932 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: May 26, 1926
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 179
14. Manuscript letter, signed, to Robert A. Franks
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: May 5, 1901
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VI. Other Carnegie Organizations, 1893-1981. VI.A. Home Trust Company. Box no. 1
- Abstract: Andrew Carnegie used to say that among all his donations his private pension list was the one most dear to him. In this letter he asks his agent Robert A. Franks to bring the list to Scotland, so he could make some changes to it while on vacation.
15. Manuscript letter to Henry Smith Pritchett
Root, Elihu, 1845-1937
- Name: Root, Elihu, 1845-1937 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: December 27, 1910
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
- Abstract: Two weeks after Andrew Carnegie presented the deed of gift for Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Elihu Root wrote this letter, inviting Henry Pritchett to meet at Carnegie's home for further organizational discussion.
16. Memorandum on Andrew Carnegie's Pensions for US Presidents
Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943
- Name: Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: January 8, 1929
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VII. Andrew Carnegie. VII.A. CCNY Carnegie Files. Box no. 3
- Abstract: The memorandum from Frederick P. Keppel (Carnegie Corporation of New York President from 1923 to1941) tells about the fate of Carnegie's idea of creating pensions for the former presidents of the United States.
17. The New Year Greeting
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: 1914
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
18. Nicholas M. Butler and Frederick P. Keppel discuss funding for Louvain University Library
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Name: Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 (Author) Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: November 18, 1924
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 207
19. Note to Henry Smith Pritchett in response to the Teachers Retirement Survey
Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853-1918
- Name: Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853-1918 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: April 13, 1909
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
- Abstract: Frederick Remsen Hutton (1853-1918) was a Columbia College graduate of 1873, Columbia University professor of Mechanical engineering, and a Dean of Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He also was a Vice President of the Carnegie-su pported American Museum of Safety, and a Secretary of the Carnegie-supported United Engineering Society.
20. Original Request for Information
Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939
- Name: Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939 (Author) Vanderlip, Frank A. (Frank Arthur), 1864-1937 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: June 30, 1905
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
- Abstract: Copies of this letter were sent to colleges and universities potentially eligible for Carnegie Foundation pensions. The responses from several hundred institutions, held in the archives, paint a rich and varied picture of the state of higher educatio n in the United States and Canada.