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1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.