Carnegie Centennial Exhibition

21. Pencil draft 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 3, 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: The first pencil draft and the final version of Andrew's first deed of gift to the Corporation. During 1911 and 1912, Carnegie gave the Corporation $125 million in three separate gifts, making it the largest single philanthropic trust ever established up to that time.

22. Press Release regarding the grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York

National Research Council (U.S.)

Name: National Research Council (U.S.) (Author)
Format: correspondence
Date: January 26, 1920
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 237

23. Proposal for Adult Education Center

Greenwich House (Organisation)

Name: Greenwich House (Organisation) (Author)
Format: correspondence
Date: March 1932
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 155
Abstract: Greenwich House was founded in 1902 as a settlement house to help New York's increasing immigrant population adjust to life in a new country. In the Carnegie Corporation records, the files of grant-related correspondence with settlement houses provide a wealth of information on life in immigrant communities (predominantly Eastern European or Italian) and on the settlement house activities within these communities.

24. Record of Interview with Donald Young

Gardner, John W. (John William), 1912-2002

Name: Gardner, John W. (John William), 1912-2002 (Author)
Format: correspondence
Date: February 13, 1945
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 327
Abstract: John Gardner, Carnegie Corporations president and SSRC director Don Young discuss emerging Area Study programs, a field of study pioneered by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which it funded directly (e.g. by founding the Harvard University Russian R esearch Center) and via SSRC.

25. Record of Interview with Frederick P. Keppel

Dollard, Charles, 1907-1977

Name: Dollard, Charles, 1907-1977 (Interviewer)
Format: correspondence
Date: April 15, 1942
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 74
Abstract: The former Carnegie Corporation president Frederick P. Keppel and the future Carnegie Corporation president Charles Dollard discuss the origins of the Economic and Social History of the World War project.

26. Record of Interview with John D. Rockefeller, 3rd

Gardner, John W. (John William), 1912-2002

Name: Gardner, John W. (John William), 1912-2002 (Interviewer)
Format: correspondence
Date: September 13, 1956
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 658
Abstract: Carnegie Corporation of New York President John Gardner and John D. Rockefeller, 3rd discuss possible participation of the Corporation in the Lincoln Center project.

27. 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.

28. Record of Interview with Robert Crane

Josephs, D. C. (Devereux Colt), 1893-1977

Name: Josephs, D. C. (Devereux Colt), 1893-1977 (Interviewer)
Format: correspondence
Date: July 2, 1945
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 327
Abstract: The Social Science Research Council files in the Carnegie Corporation archives provide information on the social sciences development, and on the thought process of the Council and the Corporation. In this record, Devereux Joseph, the Corporation pr esident talks to SSRC director Robert Crane about promising directions in social science research.

29. Summary of a letter by Nicholas Murray Butler, made for Frederick P. Keppel by a Carnegie Corporation secretary

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Name: Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 (Author)
Format: correspondence
Date: February 25, 1930
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VII. Andrew Carnegie. VII.A. CCNY Carnegie Files. Box no. 2
Abstract: For many years Carnegie family and friends contemplated the best use for the Carnegie Mansion. Nicholas Murray Butler was the most vocal proponent of turning it into a permanent home for all the New York-based philanthropic organizations connected to Andrew Carnegie. His letters with various proposals to this effect span more than two decades.

30. 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.

31. Telegram to Henry Smith Pritchett

Lazansky, Edward, 1872-1955

Name: Lazansky, Edward, 1872-1955 (Author)
Format: correspondence
Date: June 12, 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
Abstract: The telegram from the New York State Secretary, informing Pritchett about the passing of the Act to Incorporate Carnegie Corporation of New York.

32. 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

33. Typed letter signed to Alan Pifer

Kirk, Grayson L. (Grayson Louis), 1903-1997

Name: Kirk, Grayson L. (Grayson Louis), 1903-1997 (Author)
Format: correspondence
Date: February 12, 1968
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VII. Andrew Carnegie. VII.A. CCNY Carnegie Files. Box no. 2
Abstract: In 1963 the New York School of Social Work was fully merged into Columbia University as the Columbia University School of Social Work. It eventually moved to the McVicar Hall (the building that now houses Columbia Alumni Center) on Morningside Campus , in accordance with the plans, indicated in this letter by Columbia University president Grayson Kirk to Carnegie Corporation president Alan Pifer.

34. 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.

35. Typed letter, signed, to Andrew Carnegie

Pierce, William L.

Name: Pierce, William L. (Author)
Format: correspondence
Date: March 27, 1907
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 210
Abstract: Fundraising letter for the Manhattan Trade School for Girls, an exemplary Progressive Era institution, the brainchild of a group of New York City reformers and philanthropists, and the subject of a 1911 documentary. At this time it was the only vocat ional school in the city for female students.

36. Typed letter, signed, to Andrew Carnegie

Root, Elihu, 1845-1937

Name: Root, Elihu, 1845-1937 (Author)
Format: correspondence
Date: November 16, 1909
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 Elihu Root answers Andrew Carnegie's inquiry regarding his legal options for setting up a philanthropic trust in his will. Root's advice was to set up a corporation in his lifetime in order to avoid legal entanglements.

37. Typed letter, signed, to Andrew Carnegie

Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939

Name: Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939 (Author)
Format: correspondence
Date: February 6, 1905
Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
Abstract: Letter from Pritchett, written two months prior to the founding of the Foundation, discusses the plans for the "insurance for institutions of learning," and mentions Frank A. Vanderlip (1864-1937) vice-president and then president of National City Ban k of New York, a future CFAT executive committee member.

38. Typed letter signed to Andrew Carnegie requesting a grant for Barnard College

Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936

Name: Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936 (Author)
Format: correspondence
Date: April 29, 1913
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 101

39. Typed letter signed to Elihu Root