Carnegie Centennial Exhibition

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Format: posters
Date: [between 1910 and 1911]
Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
Abstract: This chart of international peace groups was produced by the Central Office of International Associations in Brussels, Belgium. The Office was the executive body of the Union of International Associations, founded in 1910 at the 1st World Congress of International Organizations in Brussels and supported by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Format: posters
Date: [1923]
Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
Abstract: The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace established its Paris office, Le Centre Européen de la Dotation Carnegie pour la Paix Internationale, as part of its Division of Intercourse and Education in 1912. The Centre was founded with an Advisory Council composed of representative and distinguished statesmen and public leaders of Europe and Asia. Baron d'Estournelles de Constant served as President of the Advisory Council from its formation until his death in 1924.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Format: posters
Date: 1915
Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Format: posters
Date: 1912
Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
Abstract: World peace was one of Andrew Carnegie's great passions. “I am drawn more to this cause than to any,” he wrote in 1907. This lecture was organized by Association for International Conciliation and its founder Baron d'Estournelles de Constant. the 1909 Nobel Peace Prize winner, who represented France at both Hague Peace Conferences, delivered the introduction to Carnegie's Sophia lecture.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Format: posters
Date: 1928
Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
Abstract: From 1927 until 1933, the Centre also maintained a Carnegie Lehrstuhl at the Deutsche Hochschule für Politik in Berlin. The Lehrstuhl was not entrusted to one professor, but was conducted as a series of lectures and seminars given yearly at the Hochsc hule and the University of Berlin by several professors from different countries.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Format: posters
Date: 1928
Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
Abstract: The European office of the Carnegie Endowment of International Peace started a series of courses of lectures on international organization and relations. In addition the Centre offered independent courses under the auspices of the Chaire Carnegie, wh ich it established in 1925. Each year, the Chaire and invited authorities delivered a series of lectures on a subject selected in agreement with the consultative committee. André Tibal (University of Nancy Professor and previously Directeur of L'Institut Français at Prague) occupied the Chaire from 1925 until 1940.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Format: posters
Date: [between 1918 and 1947]
Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
Abstract: The Carnegie charities contributed $100,000 to the fund for the reconstruction of the Library of the University of Louvain, destroyed in World War I. The intentional burning down of one of the largest and oldest European libraries by German troops pr ovoked widespread outrage, and prompted an international fundraising drive, spearheaded by U.S. academics.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Format: posters
Date: [1919]
Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
Abstract: This early "Remember November 11th" poster was printed for the first anniversary of the official end of World War I, which was declared a Remembrance Day.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Format: posters
Date: 1929
Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
Abstract: The Carnegie Endowment was also involved in librarianship in many ways. It distributed publications to libraries all over the world, supported the American Library in Paris, and was involved in rebuilding libraries destroyed in the First World War. It also opened to the public its own library in Paris, built around Frédéric Passy's library of books on international affairs and law, which the Centre purchased from the Passy estate. Frédéric Passy was the first (1901) winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

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