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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.
Creating A Trust for the Be...

2. 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.
Typed letter signed to Henr...

3. Typed letter signed to Henry Smith Pritchett

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
  • Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: December 11, 1905
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
  • Abstract: The letter hints at differences in vision that existed between Andrew Carnegie and the CFAT’s first president Henry S. Pritchett. Carnegie saw the Foundation as an agency for payment of retiring allowances. Pritchett, on the other hand, hoped that th e Foundation would be “one of the Great Agencies…in standardizing American education” and put higher priority on the educational inquiry activities.
Typed letter, signed, to An...

4. Typed letter, signed, to Andrew Carnegie

Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939
  • Name: Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: February 6, 1905
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
  • Abstract: Letter from Pritchett, written two months prior to the founding of the Foundation, discusses the plans for the "insurance for institutions of learning," and mentions Frank A. Vanderlip (1864-1937) vice-president and then president of National City Ban k of New York, a future CFAT executive committee member.
Typed letter signed to Andr...

5. Typed letter signed to Andrew Carnegie requesting a grant for Barnard College

Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936
  • Name: Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: April 29, 1913
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 101