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1. 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.
Letter to Carnegie Foundati...

2. 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
Memorandum on Andrew Carneg...

3. 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.
Nicholas M. Butler and Fred...

4. 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
Record of Interview with Lo...

5. Record of Interview with Louise Carnegie and Margaret Carnegie-Miller

Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943
  • Name: Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: February 15, 1937
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VII. Andrew Carnegie. VII.A. CCNY Carnegie Files. Box no. 2
  • Abstract: The record of a conversation with Andrew Carnegie's widow and daughter regarding the fate of the Carnegie Mansion on East 90th Street. Andrew Carnegie left the house to Louise, who lived there until her death in 1946.
Telegram to Frederick P. Ke...

6. Telegram to Frederick P. Keppel

Franks, Robert A.
  • Name: Franks, Robert A. (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: September 1924
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 74
  • Abstract: This exchange of telegrams between Frederick Keppel and Robert Franks documents the rumors about impending demolition of the Carnegie Music Hall. In fact, the Corporation owned it for 30 days after the settlement of the Carnegie estate, and then sold it to the buyer, who assured them that the Hall would continue to function as a music center.
Telegram to Robert A. Franks

7. Telegram to Robert A. Franks

Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943
  • Name: Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: [September 1924]
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 74
Typed letter signed to Alan...

8. Typed letter signed to Alan Pifer

Rockefeller, John D., III (John Davison), 1906-1978
  • Name: Rockefeller, John D., III (John Davison), 1906-1978 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: December 18, 1968
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 658
  • Abstract: Carnegie Corporation funded a new building for the Julliard School as part of the Lincoln Center project. In this letter John D. Rockefeller updates Carnegie Corporation President Alan Pifer on the progress of the project. In 1969 the Julliard School moved into the new building from its earlier location on Claremont Avenue at 120th Street in Morningside Heights.
Typed letter signed to J. B...

9. Typed letter signed to J. Brown

Yon, Pietro A., 1886-1943
  • Name: Yon, Pietro A., 1886-1943 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: December 6, 1928
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 74
Typed letter, signed to Jam...

10. Typed letter, signed to James Bertram

Poynton, John A.
  • Name: Poynton, John A. (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: March 27, 1919
  • 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. 2
  • Abstract: Carnegie Corporation of New York took over many of the charitable initiatives of Andrew Carnegie. However he continued to support schools, settlements, self-help societies and other grassroots organizations, particularly in New York City, from his pe rsonal funds. In this letter, Andrew Carnegie' personal secretary John Poynton asks the Corporation to take over some of the grants. Carnegie hired Poynton as a replacement for James Bertram, who spent all of his time administering Carnegie' organized philanthropy.
Typed letter, signed, to Ro...

11. Typed letter, signed, to Robert A. Franks

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
  • Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: December 5, 1901
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VI. Other Carnegie Organizations, 1893-1981. VI.A. Home Trust Company. Box no. 3A
  • Abstract: In this letter to Robert A. Franks, the president and director of the Carnegie Home Trust Company, Andrew Carnegie provides the first details on funding and payment arrangements for the Home Trust Company.
Typed letter, signed, to Ro...

12. Typed letter, signed, to Robert A. Franks

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
  • Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: May 5, 1908
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VI. Other Carnegie Organizations, 1893-1981. VI.A. Home Trust Company. Box no. 3
  • Abstract: One of several hundred letters from Andrew Carnegie to Robert A. Franks authorizing payments for various charity causes. The letters were then stamped with transaction numbers, and transactions were recorded in various financial journals depending on the kind of donation. Separate journals were kept for donations to libraries, church organs, and educational institutions.
Typed letter, signed, to th...

13. Typed letter, signed, to the Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
  • Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: January 13, 1913
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
  • Abstract: In this letter Carnegie announces a new Division of Educational Research within the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching with its own $1,250,000 endowment.
Typed Letter to David Homer...

14. Typed Letter to David Homer Bates, signed with Ms. Note by Carnegie

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
  • Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: December, 16 1907
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VI. Other Carnegie Organizations, 1893-1981. VI.A. Home Trust Company. Box no. 1
  • Abstract: Carnegie was a founder of the US Military Telegraph Corps of the Civil War. In 1907, upon request from David Homer Bates, the secretary of the Society of the United States Military Telegraph Corps, he established pensions for them; in a few years he e xtended pensions to their widows as well.