Carnegie Centennial Exhibition

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Format: legal documents
Date: [between 1938 and 1939]
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: This volume contains listing and brief descriptions of donations to most Carnegie Charities, and other grantees, whose names start with "C" (including Columbia University). Just between 1911 and 1941 Columbia received $3,352,498 in Carnegie Corporat ion grants, making it the third largest Carnegie grantee among the institutions of higher education (after Carnegie-Mellon and Vanderbilt).

Smithsonian Institution

Name: Smithsonian Institution (Author)
Format: legal documents
Date: [1972]
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VII. Andrew Carnegie. VII.A. CCNY Carnegie Files. Box no. 2
Abstract: Carnegie Corporation of New York donated the Carnegie Mansion and property to the Smithsonian Institution in 1972, and the modern incarnation of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum opened there in 1976.

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939

Name: Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 (Contractor)
Format: legal documents
Date: October 10, 1921
Abstract: This contract between Sigmund Freud and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace was signed by Freud and James S. Shotwell, the General Editor of the CEIP seminal 150-volume series Economic and Social History of the World War. In December 1921 Freud informed Shotwell that he "can't make any headway" and asked to be released from the contract. In 1924, as the series was brought to a conclusion, Shotwell became director of the CEIP Division of Economics and History.

Clark, John Bates, 1847-1938

Name: Clark, John Bates, 1847-1938 (Author)
Format: legal documents
Date: October 22, 1914
Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
Abstract: After the outbreak of World War I, the Division commissioned a series of studies dealing with topics of immediate importance in connection with the war. This proposal by J.B. Clark presents a plan for the publication of Economic and Social History of the World War. The resulting seminal 150-volume History contained General, American, British, Austrian/Hungarian, Belgian, Bulgarian, Czechoslovak, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Netherland, Polish, Rumanian, Russian, Scandinavian, Serbian, and Turkish series written by eminent scholars from these countries.

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching‏

Format: legal documents
Date: 1905, 1906
Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
Abstract: In April 1905, Andrew Carnegie announced the creation of the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching (CFAT), a $10,000,000 pension fund for teachers in institutions of higher education (with additional five million dollars added in 1908 to pro vide pensions for teachers in state colleges). These mounted checks were issued to the Foundation's own executives: H. S. Pritchett, the CFAT president and Charles W. Eliot, the Harvard University President and the first CFAT Board Chairman. The third check is for William T. Harris, the United States Commissioner of Education from 1889 to 1906, and one of the 30 founding members of the Simplified Spelling Board.

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