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1. Andrew Carnegie during Quatercentenary Celebrations at the University of Aberdeen
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: photographs
- Date: [September 1906]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series X. Graphic Materials. X.A. Andrew Carnegie. Flat Box 526
- Abstract: Andrew Carnegie with Archbishop of Canberbury (Randall Thomas Davidson, 1st Baron Davidson of Lambeth), Aberdeen University Principal (John Marshall Lang) and [...]
2. Board of Trustees, at the First Carnegie Corporation Meeting
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: photographs
- Date: November 10, 1911
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records
- Abstract: Top row: Left to right: Henry S. Pritchett, James Bertram, Charles L. Taylor, (president of the Carnegie Hero Commission), Robert Franks. Bottom Row: William N. Frew (the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburg Chairman of the board); Robert S. Woodward (Pres ident of the Carnegie Institution of Washington); Elihu Root, Andrew Carnegie, his daughter Margaret, his wife Louise. The meeting took place in Andrew Carnegie's House on East 91st Street.
3. Carnegie Family Home Convention
Pittsburgh Gazette Times
- Format: photographs
- Date: 1910
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series X. Graphic Materials. X.C. Staff and Trustees. Flat Box 526
- Abstract: The Carnegie family in Pittsburgh on the return of Mr. Andrew Carnegie (front row, third from the left) and Mrs. Louise Whitfield Carnegie (front row, second from the left) from California en route to New York. Pittsburgh witnessed Carnegie's meteori c rise from bobbin boy on a cotton mill, to a telegraph operator then to a railroad manager, and finally to a steel industry titan. Over the years many other members of the extended family settled there as well. Andrew Carnegie moved to New York City in 1867, but Pittsburgh has always remained the site of his steel factories, and the recipient of many Carnegie benefactions.
4. Carnegie Library, Albany, Georgia
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: photographs
- Date: 1938
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
- Abstract: Perhaps the most recognizable legacy of Andrew Carnegie and later, Carnegie Corporation, is the American institution of the free public library. Between 1890 and 1917 Andrew Carnegie and Carnegie Corporation of New York built 2,509 new libraries all over the world, including 1,681 in the Unites States. The recipient communities were required to pass an ordinance, guaranteeing annual tax support for the library operations. Later the Corporation moved from brick and mortar to developing librarianship and library science.
5. Celebration of Andrew Carnegie's Centennial in Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: photographs
- Date: November 24, 1935
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series X. Graphic Materials. X.B. Carnegie Centenary. Flat Box 524
- Abstract: Carnegie never regarded the "Music Hall," opened in 1890, as one of his philanthropic institutions despite spending almost $2,000,000 of his money on it. The Hall became part of his residuary estate, and thus came to be owned by the Carnegie Corporati on of New York after his death.
6. Le Centre Européen de la Dotation Carnegie pour la Paix Internationale Headquarters in Paris
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: photographs
- Date: [1923]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
- Abstract: In 1923 the Endowment purchased a building in Paris to house the Centre Européen. The new building at 173 Boulevard Saint-Germain, an 18th century hotel, contained the Centre's administration offices, lecture rooms, library, and a movie theater. The Centre also rented its rooms for lectures, and let office space to other organizations and individuals. A separate reading room (Salle de Lecture) for current newspapers and other periodicals opened in 1926.
7. Ghana University of - Conference on University adult education in Africa
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: photographs
- Date: [1966]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records
- Abstract: This Carnegie-sponsored project ties the Corporation's support to African Universities with its long-standing commitment to adult education.
8. Lagos University Meeting of Association of Teacher Education in Africa
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: photographs
- Date: 1973
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series X. Graphic Materials. X.D. From Grant Files. Box no. 2
- Abstract: The Carnegie-sponsored Ashby commission of 1959-1960 indicated a vital need for further development of postsecondary education, and had the effect of stimulating widespread aid to African nations’ systems of higher and professional education. The gr ants from Carnegie Corporation of New York played a major role in supporting major African universities.
9. Meeting of Inter-University Council for Higher Education Colonial and Dominion Principals
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: photographs
- Date: June 1955
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series X. Graphic Materials. X.D. From Grant Files. Box no. 1
- Abstract: The Inter-University Council for Higher Education council was established in 1946 by joint action of the British universities to promote the foundation and expansion of universities in what was then British colonial territories. Extensive grant files for the Council in the Carnegie Corporation archives provide rich information about the period and the dynamics of transition from British rule to independence.
10. Meeting of the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching Board of Trustees
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
- Format: photographs
- Date: 1912
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
- Abstract: Andrew Carnegie initially selected 25 trustees to administer the Carnegie Foundation, primarily presidents of major universities, and presidents of "colleges of both the older and the younger type." Robert A. Franks, Thomas Morrison Carnegie, and Fr ank A. Vanderlip were the only three members of the Board with no academic affiliations.
11. Photograph of Andrew Carnegie at His Desk
Marceau, Theodore C., 1859-1922
- Name: Marceau, Theodore C., 1859-1922 (Photographer)
- Format: photographs
- Date: [between 1872 and 1919]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series X. Graphic Materials. X.A. Andrew Carnegie. Flat Box 526
12. Photograph of Elihu Root
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: photographs
- Date: [1930s]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series X. Graphic Materials. X.C. Staff and Trustees. Flat Box 526
- Abstract: Elihu Root (1845-1937), US Senator from New York, Theodore Roosevelt's US Secretary of War and later Secretary of State and Andrew Carnegie's legal advisor, played a decisive role in his major philanthropic undertakings.
13. Photograph of Frederick P. Keppel
- Format: photographs
- Date: [between 1918 and 1943]
- Collection Name: Frederick P. Keppel Papers
- Abstract: Frederick P. Keppel (1875-1943), the Carnegie Corporation president for almost 20 years, from 1922 until 1941, was a Columbia College graduate of 1899. He then served as Columbia University Secretary, and upon the retirement of John Van Amringe in 19 10 became the dean of Columbia College-the position he held until 1918.
14. Photograph of George A. Plimpton
Carnegie Council on Ethics & International Affairs
- Format: photographs
- Date: [between 1844 and 1952]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Council on Ethics & International Affairs Records
- Abstract: George A. Plimpton (1855-1936) was the head of the publishing firm Ginn and Company. He was a Trustee of Barnard College from its opening in 1889, served as a member of its first finance committee, and as its Treasurer from 1893 until his death in 19 36. He was also a founder of the Friends of the Columbia University Libraries serving as its Chairman from 1928 until his death. Plimpton also was a friend of Andrew Carnegie, and the original treasurer of the Church Peace Union.
15. Photograph of Henry Smith Pritchett
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: photographs
- Date: [between 1875 and 1939]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series X. Graphic Materials. X.C. Staff and Trustees. Box no. 1A
- Abstract: Henry Smith Pritchett (1857-1939), another key figure in Andrew Carnegie's inner circle, was an astronomer, and served as MIT president from 1900 until 1907. He first proposed the creation of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, a nd served as its first president from 1906 until he retired in 1930. He also was a trustee for the Carnegie Institute of Washington, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Carnegie Corporation of New York.
16. Photograph of James Bertram
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: photographs
- Date: [between 1897 and 1934]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series X. Graphic Materials. X.C. Staff and Trustees. Box no. 1
- Abstract: This is the only known photo of James Bertram (1872-1934), Andrew Carnegie's personal secretary. Andrew Carnegie hired him in Skibo, Scotland in 1897 upon recommendation from Dr. Hew Morrison, Chief Librarian of the Edinburgh Public Library.
17. Photograph of James T. Shotwell
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: photographs
- Date: [between 1922 and 1951]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
- Abstract: James T. Shotwell General Editor of the Economic and Social History of the World War was also a Professor of the History of International Relations at Columbia University. He devoted most of his life, as he put it, “to the organization of peace,” an d was instrumental in the creation of some of the most important international institutions of the twentieth century, such as the United Nations. He succeeded J.B. Clark as the director of the Division of Economics and History in 1924.
18. Photograph of John Campbell Merriam
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: photographs
- Date: 1938
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series X. Graphic Materials. X.C. Staff and Trustees. Box no. 1A
- Abstract: John Campbell Merriam (1869 - October 30, 1945) was a leading American paleontologist and the third president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 1920-1938. He was the chairman of the National Research Council twice, in 1919-1920 and 1921-1923, and held other prominent positions in numerous scientific organizations. This photograph was taken in his CIW office before his 1938 retirement.
19. Photograph of Nicholas Murray Butler as the Carnegie Corporation of New York Trustee
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: photographs
- Date: [between 1911 and 1947]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series X. Graphic Materials. X.C. Staff and Trustees. Box no. 1
- Abstract: Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947), was a close friend of Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie attended Butler's inauguration as Columbia University President in 1902, and Butler vacationed in Carnegie's Skibo Castle. Butler was an advocate and one of the ori ginal trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. A noted advocate for peace, he served as chairman of the Conferences on International Arbitration, and then became one of the founders of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, its second president, from 1925 to 1945, and a recipient of 1931 Nobel Peace Prize.
20. Photograph of Robert A. Franks
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: photographs
- Date: [between 1883 and 1941]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series X. Graphic Materials. X.C. Staff and Trustees. Box no. 1
- Abstract: Andrew Carnegie's close friend and financial agent since 1883, Robert Franks was in charge of distributing Carnegie money for pensions and philanthropic activities. The president and director of the Carnegie Home Trust Company, he later served as a t rust.
21. Photograph of Robert S. Woodward
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: photographs
- Date: [between 1872 and 1924]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series X. Graphic Materials. X.C. Staff and Trustees. Box no. 1A
- Abstract: The Carnegie Institution of Washington (CIW) was founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1902 to encourage investigation, research and discovery "in the broadest and most liberal manner." Under its first president, Daniel C. Gilman the institution mostly awarde d individual grants in various fields. The Institution's second president (from 1904 through 1920) was Robert S. Woodward, a physicist and mathematician, who had been a dean of the faculty of pure science at Columbia University. Woodward changed the course, deciding to focus on supporting departments of research within the institution. This approach successfully allowed the Institution to support groups of researchers in related areas over many years.
22. Photograph of William P. Merril
- Format: photographs
- Date: [between 1929 and 1931]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Council on Ethics & International Affairs Records
- Abstract: William P. Merrill, (1867-1954) was acknowledged during his time as one of the most influential ministers in America. In 1911, Merrill became a pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City, attended by the Carnegie family. His 1914 sermon titled "The Making of Peace" was hailed by Andrew Carnegie as one of the greatest sermons on peace that he had ever heard. In 1914 Merrill became the first president of Carnegie's Church Peace Union, currently known as Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs.
23. Photographic Copper Plate of the Carnegie Mansion
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: photographs
- Date: [between 1898 and 1919]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series X. Graphic Materials. X.F. Photographic Plates. Box no. 4
- Abstract: Andrew Carnegie's first residence was in the St. Nicholas hotel near City Hall park; then he moved to the Windsor Hotel at Fifth Avenue and 46th Street, and after his marriage in 1887 moved again to 5 West 51st Street. In 1898 he purchased land on F ifth Avenue and 90th Street, further north than most mansions, and asked his architects Babb, Cook & Willard for the "most modest, plainest, and most roomy house in New York." It was also the first American residence to have a steel frame and among the first to have a private Otis Elevator and central heating. The Carnegies moved into their new home in 1903.
24. Reconstructing the Reims Library
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: photographs
- Date: [1920s]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
- Abstract: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace with financial assistance from the Carnegie Corporation of New York sponsored reconstruction of various cultural landmarks in Europe, destroyed in World War I. These photographs document the rebuilding of th e Reims library. Hotel de Ville, where the library had been housed before the War, burned to the ground in May 1917. Notre-Dame de Reims is visible on the background. The architect Max Sainsaulieu used the library buildings in the United States as inspiration for the new state-of-the-art building.
25. Reconstructing the Reims Library
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: photographs
- Date: [1920s]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
- Abstract: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace with financial assistance from the Carnegie Corporation of New York sponsored reconstruction of various cultural landmarks in Europe, destroyed in World War I. These photographs document the rebuilding of th e Reims library. Hotel de Ville, where the library had been housed before the War, burned to the ground in May 1917. Notre-Dame de Reims is visible on the background. The architect Max Sainsaulieu used the library buildings in the United States as inspiration for the new state-of-the-art building.
26. Reconstructing the Reims Library
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: photographs
- Date: [1920s]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
- Abstract: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace with financial assistance from the Carnegie Corporation of New York sponsored reconstruction of various cultural landmarks in Europe, destroyed in World War I. These photographs document the rebuilding of th e Reims library. Hotel de Ville, where the library had been housed before the War, burned to the ground in May 1917. Notre-Dame de Reims is visible on the background. The architect Max Sainsaulieu used the library buildings in the United States as inspiration for the new state-of-the-art building.
27. Reconstructing the Reims Library
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: photographs
- Date: [1920s]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
- Abstract: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace with financial assistance from the Carnegie Corporation of New York sponsored reconstruction of various cultural landmarks in Europe, destroyed in World War I. These photographs document the rebuilding of th e Reims library. Hotel de Ville, where the library had been housed before the War, burned to the ground in May 1917. Notre-Dame de Reims is visible on the background. The architect Max Sainsaulieu used the library buildings in the United States as inspiration for the new state-of-the-art building.
28. University of Louvain Library in World War II
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: photographs
- Date: 1940
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
- Abstract: The University of Louvain Library building burned down in the Second World War, and then had to be restored again.
29. University of Louvain Library Opening Ceremony Photographs
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: photographs
- Date: July 4th, 1928
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
30. University of Louvain Library Opening Ceremony Photographs
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: photographs
- Date: July 4th, 1928
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
31. University of Louvain Library Opening Ceremony Photographs
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: photographs
- Date: July 4th, 1928
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records