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1. Address by Andrew Carnegie upon the Occasion of the Presentation of the Carnegie Institute to the people of Pittsburgh. Front cover
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Speaker)
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: November 5, 1895
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VIII. Printed Material. VIII.A. CCNY Publications. Vol 57
- Abstract: The Carnegie Institute, established as a public trust in 1895, originally comprised the Carnegie Library, Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Natural History and Carnegie Music Hall. Andrew Carnegie's donations to Pittsburgh also included Car negie Technical Schools, founded in 1900, now part of Carnegie Mellon University.
2. An Address delivered on the opening of the new Engineering Building of the University of Edinburgh. Front cover
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Speaker)
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: 1906
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VII. Andrew Carnegie. VII.B. Printed Material. Box no. 4
- Abstract: The University of Edinburgh awarded Andrew Carnegie an honorary degree in 1906. He was twice elected Rector of Scotland' most ancient university, St. Andrews. Carnegie' speech in Edinburgh and his photograph in Aberdeen document his triumphant 1906 v isit to these institutions.
3. Andrew Carnegie: 1835-1935. Front cover
Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947
- Name: Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 (Speaker)
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: 1935
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series I. Administrative Records, 1872-1996. I.E. Staff and Trustee Files, 1913-1996. Box no. 23
- Abstract: A collection of speeches and articles about Andrew Carnegie delivered by N. M. Butler in November 1935 to commemorate Andrew Carnegie's centennial.
4. Andrew Carnegie. Title page; An Anniversary Address Delivered Before the Carnegie Institute of Technology on November the 24th, 1915
Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939
- Name: Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939 (Speaker)
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: 1915
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VIII. Printed Material. Vol 57
- Abstract: Address by Pritchett on occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Originally founded in 1900 as Carnegie Technical Schools, this Pittsburgh contribution by Carnegie is now part of Carnegie Mellon University.
5. Armaments and their Results. Title page
Peace Society of the City of New York
- Name: Peace Society of the City of New York (Author)
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: 1909
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VII. Andrew Carnegie. VII.B. Printed Material. Box no. 4
- Abstract: The New York Peace Society was founded in 1906 with Andrew Carnegie's substantial financial support; he was elected President in 1907. The Society's mission was to educate people on Hague Conferences, and creation of international laws and organizati ons. In 1940 the New York Peace Society merged into the World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches, an organization closely affiliated with Carnegie's Church Peace Union, and amply documented in the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs Records.
6. Beautiful Bugles of Peace
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: pamphlets; music
- Date: 1912
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
- Abstract: The records of Carnegie Endowment and Carnegie Council for Ethic and International Affairs contain many early peace movement memorabilia, such as grass-roots peace plans, pamphlets, broadsheets, flyers, essays and sheet music.
7. The Carnegie American Benefactions in Operation. Front cover
Ross, John
- Name: Ross, John (Author)
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: [1913]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 72
- Abstract: This booklet was written by Dr. John Ross, the head of the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust, established in 1903, for the betterment of social conditions in Carnegie's native town. Dr. John Ross also was in charge of the Carnegie Hero Fund Trust, establishe d in 1908, for recognition of heroic acts performed in peaceful walks of life in Great Britain and Ireland. The Hero Fund was modeled after the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, established in the United States in 1904, and was soon followed by Carnegie Hero Funds in France, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, and Italy.
8. Creating A Trust for the Benefit of the Universities of Scotland, etc. Front cover
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: 1901
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
- Abstract: The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland was established in 1901, for assistance to students, for expansion of the Scottish universities, and for stimulation of research. The endowment of the Trust on establishment was $10 million, several times larger than the governmental funding of the four Scottish universities at the time. The Trust was accepted, but remained one of the most controversial of all the large Carnegie benefactions. Carnegie was criticized for creating an “academic dictatorship” by his reliance on trustees, and for “pauperization” of the university clientele by providing financial assistance for Scottish students.
9. The First Twenty Years of Carnegie Corporation. Cover page
Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939
- Name: Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939 (Author)
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: November 19, 1931
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series I. Administrative Records, 1872-1996. I.F. General Files, 1911-1987. Box no. 1
- Abstract: This 20th anniversary address to the Corporation was marked as "inaccurate" by Florence Andersen, the Corporation's secretary from 1955 to 1975, and then its first archivist. Henry Pritchett was an original trustee of Carnegie Corporation of New York and its acting president from 1921-23.
10. The Graduate Records Examination. Cover page
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: 1941
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
- Abstract: Graduate Records Examination grew out of the project for the CFAT in the early 1930s to study the outcomes of college education. Carnegie Corporation of New York played a key role in funding the study, and then helping to accommodate the test to new r ealities after World War II, when a much larger student body began to pursue graduate degrees.
11. League of Nations News, Volume IV, No. 62. Cover page
League of Nations Non-Partisan Association (U.S.)
- Name: League of Nations Non-Partisan Association (U.S.) (Author)
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: February 1927
- Collection Name: Carnegie Council on Ethics & International Affairs Records
12. Memorandum of Agreement between Carnegie Corporation of New York and Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America as to Professors Annuities. Cover
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: March 28, 1929
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.B. Reports on Grants, 1911-1983. Box no. 124
- Abstract: By 1917, the CFAT trustees, after an extensive study, concluded that a pension system paid out of income at no cost to the beneficiary was expensive beyond all estimates and anticipation. In 1917-1918, under an arrangement negotiated by Andrew Carneg ie and the CFAT the CCNY gave $1 million to found the Teachers Insurance Annuity Association of America, an occupation-wide contributory plan, believed by some to embody more closely Carnegie’s original vision of the teachers’ pension plan. The nonprofit stock of the association, now called TIAA-CREF was owned outright by the Corporation until 1938, when it was transferred to an independent board of trustees. CCNY continued to support TIAA with grants until 1957.
13. The moral values of a League of Nations. Front cover
Carnegie Council on Ethics & International Affairs
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: 1917
- Collection Name: Carnegie Council on Ethics & International Affairs Records
- Abstract: Pamphlet from the Churches and the Moral Aims of the War Series
14. Plan for the Promotion of Scientific and Industrial Research by the National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council. Cover page
Hale, George Ellery, 1868-1938
- Name: Hale, George Ellery, 1868-1938 (Author)
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: 1918
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 237
- Abstract: The National Research Council of National Academy of Sciences (NRC) was established in 1916 in response to the war-time need for scientific services, "in order to facilitate cooperation between governmental, educational, industrial and other research organizations". Carnegie Corporation was a principal war-time backer of NRC via the Carnegie Institution of Washington. This memorandum, written by G.E. Hale, who was the first NRC chairman (1916-1918), as well as the founder of the CIW-funded Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, advocates the continuing relevance of NRC, and urges the Corporation to provide it with building and endowment funds.
15. Program for Evening Classes in Workingman’s Club
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: [1900]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 60
16. The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. Front
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: 1967
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 527
17. Regulations : Andrew Carnegie Relief Fund. Front Cover
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: January 1, 1902
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VII. Andrew Carnegie. VII.A. CCNY Carnegie Files. Box no. 3
- Abstract: In December 1901, the Carnegie Company announced that its advisory committee, chaired by Charles L. Taylor, had completed a workable plan of administering the Carnegie Relief Fund. The Fund officially became operative in January 1902.
18. Religion and World Peace. Cover page
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
- Name: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Author)
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: [between 1925 and 1961]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Council on Ethics & International Affairs Records
19. Remarks of Andrew Carnegie before the Nineteenth Century Club upon "The Aristocracy of the Dollar". Cover page
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: [between 1883 and 1886]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VII. Andrew Carnegie. VII.B. Printed Material. Box no. 4
- Abstract: Andrew Carnegie moved to New York City in 1867. In 1883 he was elected to the Nineteenth Century Club of New York founded by Cortland Palmer, who invited best-known men of letters to speak to his club. Carnegie was invited to be one of the disputant s following the lecture by Thomas Wentworth Higginson critical of the new "Aristocracy of the Dollar." In his autobiography, Carnegie fondly remembered this "first introduction to a New York audience," which he later printed in pamphlet form. In 1886 Carnegie presented his work Triumphant Democracy to the Nineteenth Century Club, but soon resigned from the Club following his verbal attack on Palmer.
20. Report of the President on Visit to Southern British Dominions. Front cover
Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943
- Name: Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943 (Author)
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: 1935
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VIII. Printed Material. Box no. 4
- Abstract: The overseas program of the Corporation was greatly expanded after Frederick Keppel and James Bertram undertook a trip to Africa in 1927. The travel reports, such as this Keppel's 1935 Report on Australia, New Zealand and Southern Africa shown here, not only set forth priorities for the Corporation's grant making but also provided valuable information on the social conditions and the state of education in the region.