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Benefits of Workingman'...

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.
Call for the First Board Me...

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
Carnegie Corporation Grant ...

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.
Carnegie Corporation of New...

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.
Carnegie Library and Workin...

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.
Columbia University List of...

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
Deed of Gift for the Andrew...

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.
The Final version of the fi...

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
Invitation to the first mee...

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
Letter and Accompanying Mem...

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
Letter to Andrew Carnegie

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.
Letter to Carnegie Foundati...

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
Letter to Frederick P. Kepp...

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
Manuscript letter, signed, ...

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.
Manuscript letter to Henry ...

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.
Memorandum on Andrew Carneg...

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.
The New Year Greeting

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
Nicholas M. Butler and Fred...

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
Note to Henry Smith Pritche...

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.
Original Request for Inform...

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.
Pencil draft of the first D...

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.
Press Release regarding the...

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
Proposal for Adult Educatio...

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.
Record of Interview with Do...

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.
Record of Interview with Fr...

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.
Record of Interview with Jo...

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.
Record of Interview with Lo...

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.
Record of Interview with Ro...

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.
Summary of a letter by Nich...

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.
Telegram to Frederick P. Ke...

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.
Telegram to Henry Smith Pri...

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.
Telegram to Robert A. Franks

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
Typed letter signed to Alan...

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.
Typed letter signed to Alan...

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.
Typed letter, signed, to An...

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.
Typed letter, signed, to An...

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.
Typed letter, signed, to An...

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.
Typed letter signed to Andr...

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
Typed letter signed to Elih...

39. Typed letter signed to Elihu Root

Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939
  • Name: Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939 (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: Henry Pritchett comments on the first versions of the constitution and by-laws for Carnegie Corporation of New York drafted by Elihu Root.
Typed letter signed to Elih...

40. Typed letter signed to Elihu Root

Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947
  • Name: Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: June 19, 1908
  • Collection Name: Nicholas Murray Butler Papers
  • Abstract: N. M. Butler was a lifelong friend and political ally of Elihu Root, whom he met in 1885. Together they came up with the idea of Endowment for International Peace, which they then presented to Andrew Carnegie. In this letter he discusses the feasib ility of an international conference on labor relations.
Typed letter signed to Fran...

41. Typed letter signed to Frank A. Vanderlip

Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943
  • Name: Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: August 12, 1905
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
  • Abstract: This letter from Keppel, then the Secretary of Columbia University, to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, accompanied the Columbia University List of Faculty (see the first page of the list shown below) submitted to the CFAT in order to calculate their retirement allowances under the original Carnegie plan.
Typed letter, signed, to Fr...

42. Typed letter, signed, to Frederick P. Keppel regarding a book by James Shotwell

Lynd, Robert Staughton, 1892-1970
  • Name: Lynd, Robert Staughton, 1892-1970 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: March 30, 1931
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 327
  • Abstract: James Shotwell was also responsible for the International Relations section of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). Founded in New York City in 1923, it became the world's first national coordinating body of the social sciences. Carnegie Cor poration of New York both provided financial support for the Council and used it as an intermediary to channel grants to smaller institutions and individuals.
Typed letter signed to Henr...

43. Typed letter signed to Henry Smith Pritchett

Sheldon, Edward Wright, 1858-1934
  • Name: Sheldon, Edward Wright, 1858-1934 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: May 16, 1921
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 263
  • Abstract: This letter, written by the President of the Society of New York Hospital, describes educational activities of the New York Academy of Medicine and its value to New York Hospital, the oldest hospital in New York City (now known as NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital / Weill Cornell Medical Center). This letter was written after New York Hospital and Cornell University reached an agreement about using the hospital for teaching purposes, but several years before they agreed on building a joint medical center on East 68th Street. The New York Academy of Medicine, particularly its famous library, was the resource that allowed practicing doctors to keep abreast of changes in their profession.
Typed letter, signed, to He...

44. Typed letter, signed, to Henry Smith Pritchett

Root, Elihu, 1845-1937
  • Name: Root, Elihu, 1845-1937 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: June 8, 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 Root and Pritchett discuss Carnegie Endowment for International Peace matters, and the progress of the State of New York legislation to approve Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Typed letter, signed to Hen...

45. Typed letter, signed to Henry Smith Pritchett

Bertram, James, 1872-1934
  • Name: Bertram, James, 1872-1934 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: August 27, 1914
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series I. Administrative Records, 1872-1996. I.E. Staff and Trustee Files, 1913-1996. Box no. 18
  • Abstract: There was tension at times between Andrew Carnegie's more illustrious friends, particularly Henry Smith Pritchett, and trusted Carnegie employees Franks and Bertram, whom Pritchett at times angrily called "the clerks".
Typed letter signed to Henr...

46. Typed letter signed to Henry Smith Pritchett

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
  • Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: December 11, 1905
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
  • Abstract: The letter hints at differences in vision that existed between Andrew Carnegie and the CFAT’s first president Henry S. Pritchett. Carnegie saw the Foundation as an agency for payment of retiring allowances. Pritchett, on the other hand, hoped that th e Foundation would be “one of the Great Agencies…in standardizing American education” and put higher priority on the educational inquiry activities.
Typed letter signed to Henr...

47. Typed letter signed to Henry Smith Pritchett

Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947
  • Name: Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: May 24, 1912
  • Collection Name: Nicholas Murray Butler Papers
  • Abstract: Correspondence between N. M. Butler and H. S. Pritchett, both university presidents and members of Andrew Carnegie's inner circle, stretches over 40 years and numerous archival collections. This letter discusses Andrew Carnegie, various matters of Car negie philanthropy, and the chances of Elihu Root being nominated for the US presidency.
Typed letter, signed, to He...

48. Typed letter, signed, to Henry Smith Pritchett in response to the Teachers Retirement Survey

Van Amringe, J. Howard (John Howard), 1835-1915
  • Name: Van Amringe, J. Howard (John Howard), 1835-1915 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: May 2, 1915
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
  • Abstract: John Howard Van Amringe (1836-1915) graduated from Columbia in 1860. Thereafter, he taught mathematics at Columbia, holding a professorship from 1865 to 1910 when he retired. Van Amringe was also the first Dean of Columbia College, memorialized with a bust enshrined in a column-supported cupola on "Van Am Quad" in the southeastern portion of the campus.
Typed letter, signed to Hen...

49. Typed letter, signed to Henry Smith Pritchett, re: simplified spelling

Bertram, James, 1872-1934
  • Name: Bertram, James, 1872-1934 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: August 27, 1914
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series I. Administrative Records, 1872-1996. I.E. Staff and Trustee Files, 1913-1996. Box no. 18
  • Abstract: There was tension at times between Andrew Carnegie's more illustrious friends, particularly Henry Smith Pritchett, and trusted Carnegie employees Franks and Bertram, whom Pritchett at times angrily called "the clerks".
Typed letter signed to Hew ...

50. Typed letter signed to Hew Morrison

Carnegie, Louise Whitfield, 1857-1946
  • Name: Carnegie, Louise Whitfield, 1857-1946 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: March 21, 1922
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VII. Andrew Carnegie. VII.A. CCNY Carnegie Files. Box no. 1
  • Abstract: The Carnegies formed a personal friendship with Edinburgh's first City Librarian, Hew Morrison, who brought Andrew Carnegie's attention to the estate at Skibo, were he would later spend his summers. Incidentally, Hew Morrison also recommended that Ca rnegie hire James Bertram as a secretary. As shown in this letter, he also participated in designing and choosing Andrew Carnegie's bookplates.
Typed letter signed to J. B...

51. 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...

52. 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.
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53. Typed letter signed to James T. Shotwell regarding one of the books in Economic and Social History of the World War series

Hoover, Herbert C.
  • Name: Hoover, Herbert C. (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: December 30, 1924
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
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54. Typed letter signed to Louise Whitfield Carnegie

Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947
  • Name: Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: December 17, 1945
  • Collection Name: Nicholas Murray Butler Papers
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55. Typed letter signed to Nicholas Murray Butler

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
  • Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: October 23, 1913
  • Collection Name: Nicholas Murray Butler Papers
  • Abstract: This letter to N. M. Butler discussed international arbitration and the Carnegie “Peace Fund” (i.e. Endowment for International Peace”). Carnegie ends the letter with his characteristic optimism “The task of Peace Fund is the abolition of man killing man…After its conquest, but not till then – next!”
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56. Typed letter signed to Nicholas Murray Butler

Carnegie, Louise Whitfield, 1857-1946
  • Name: Carnegie, Louise Whitfield, 1857-1946 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: December 11, 1945
  • Collection Name: Nicholas Murray Butler Papers
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57. Typed letter signed to Nicholas Murray. Butler

Carnegie, Louise Whitfield, 1857-1946
  • Name: Carnegie, Louise Whitfield, 1857-1946 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: December 11, 1945
  • Collection Name: Nicholas Murray Butler Papers
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58. 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.
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59. 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.
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60. Typed letter, signed, to Robert A. Franks, regarding payments to Elizabeth Haldans

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
  • Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: August 5, 1897
  • 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 began his private list of pensioners in 1881. The list included persons of distinction from all fields – arts, politics, social service, education – who were in need. Other pensioners were his family members, figures from his earlier life, an d former work associates.
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61. Typed letter, signed, to Robert A. Franks, regarding payments to Martha B. Hixon

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
  • Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: August 7, 1919
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VI. Other Carnegie Organizations, 1893-1981. VI.A. Home Trust Company. Box no. 1
  • Abstract: One of the last documents signed by Andrew Carnegie deals with yet another addition to his private pension list. At the time of his death on August 11, 1919 the list included 409 people.
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62. 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.
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63. 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.