Search Results Header
Search Constraints
Showing results for: Names Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Remove constraint Names: Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceSearch Results
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Central Office of International Associations Chart
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.
4. 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.
5. Contract for “The Psycho-Analytic Problem of the War”
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
- Name: Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 (Contractor)
- Format: legal documents
- Date: October 10, 1921
- Abstract: This contract between Sigmund Freud and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace was signed by Freud and James S. Shotwell, the General Editor of the CEIP seminal 150-volume series Economic and Social History of the World War. In December 1921 Freud informed Shotwell that he "can't make any headway" and asked to be released from the contract. In 1924, as the series was brought to a conclusion, Shotwell became director of the CEIP Division of Economics and History.
6. Ground Floor Plan for Belgrade University Library
Nestorović, Nikola B.
- Name: Nestorović, Nikola B. (Architect) Đorđević, Dragutin, 1866-1933 (Architect)
- Format: architectural drawings
- Date: [1925]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
- Abstract: In their 1920 decision to allocate $100,000 for the building of the Belgrade University Library the CEIP Executive Committee stated: “Mr. Carnegie's name and fame are inseparably associated with his gifts for the construction of libraries in many land s. … It seems therefore peculiarly fitting to erect this library in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia since 1389, where Serbian independence was proclaimed on August 22, 1878, and which was twice captured by the enemy during the Great War, as the gift of the Carnegie Endowment in commemoration of the heroic defense made by the Serbian people.” The library of the Royal University of Belgrade, rebuilt with Carnegie Endowment’s contributions, officially opened its doors on May 24 1926. Today Svetozar Marković University Library is the largest university library in the country.
7. Logo for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Paris Office.
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.
8. Louvain : la Renaissance -- resurrected. Front cover
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: books
- Date: [between 1918 and 1947]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
- Abstract: Booklet of “Before” and “After” Photographs of Louvain Post-War Reconstruction
9. National Peace Federation Chart of Peace Organizations in the United States
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: posters
- Date: 1915
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
10. 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.
11. Poster for Andrew Carnegie's Lecture on International Arbitration in Sofia
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.
12. Poster for Chaire Carnegie program in Berlin
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.
13. Poster for Chaire Carnegie program in Paris
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.
14. Poster for the University of Louvain Library Fund
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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. Resolution from the first meeting of the Church Peace Union
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: legal documents
- Date: February 10, 1914,
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
- Abstract: The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs (formerly the Church Peace Union and later known for a while the Council on Religion in International Affairs) was founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1914. Initially, it searched for ways to influen ce government action, but eventually adopted an educational mission, providing a forum for public debate, issuing publications, conducting public affairs programs, and performing studies.
20. Summer Session for Teachers of International Law in George Peabody College for Teachers
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: printed ephemera
- Date: 1915
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
- Abstract: Carnegie Endowment of International Peace was also heavily involved in educational projects. One of the objectives of its Division of International Law was facilitating the study and improving the teaching of international law and related subjects; t hus the Division was instrumental in founding and supporting an Academy of International Law. It also provided financial and administrative support for conferences of teachers of international law and sponsored a series of eight summer sessions on international law for teachers from smaller colleges. This is one of the earliest such sessions held at George Peabody College for Teachers (now part of Vanderbilt University).