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Address by Andrew Carnegie ...

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.
Andrew Carnegie. Title page...

2. Andrew Carnegie. Title page; An Anniversary Address Delivered Before the Carnegie Institute of Technology on November the 24th, 1915

Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939
  • Name: Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939 (Speaker)
  • Format: pamphlets
  • Date: 1915
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VIII. Printed Material. Vol 57
  • Abstract: Address by Pritchett on occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Originally founded in 1900 as Carnegie Technical Schools, this Pittsburgh contribution by Carnegie is now part of Carnegie Mellon University.
The Best Fields for Philant...

3. The Best Fields for Philanthropy Poster

Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • Format: posters
  • Date: 1935
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series X. Graphic Materials. X.B. Carnegie Centenary. Map Case 14.05.01
  • Abstract: One of several posters created for the Carnegie Centennary celebration in 1935, quoting from "The Best Fields for Philanthropy" essay, written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889.
Carnegie Corporation Donati...

4. Carnegie Corporation Donations Volume "C"

Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • Format: legal documents
  • Date: [between 1938 and 1939]
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series I. Administrative Records, 1872-1996. I.C. Financial Record Books, 1872-1987. Flat Box 489
  • Abstract: This volume contains listing and brief descriptions of donations to most Carnegie Charities, and other grantees, whose names start with "C" (including Columbia University). Just between 1911 and 1941 Columbia received $3,352,498 in Carnegie Corporat ion grants, making it the third largest Carnegie grantee among the institutions of higher education (after Carnegie-Mellon and Vanderbilt).
Carnegie Corporation Donati...

5. Carnegie Corporation Donations Volume "C"

Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • Format: books
  • Date: between 1927 and 1928
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series I. Administrative Records, 1872-1996. I.C. Financial Record Books, 1872-1987. Flat Box 489
  • Abstract: The first donations to Columbia University (Astronomy Observatory, Teachers College, College of Pharmacy, etc.) were made by Andrew Carnegie himself and go back to the early 1900s. The Corporation has worked with Columbia ever since, with total donat ions exceeding 20 million dollars. This is a small sample of reports, produced by various Columbia University affiliates under Carnegie Corporation grants.
The Carnegie Institute

6. The Carnegie Institute

Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • Format: printed ephemera
  • Date: [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.
Carnegie Quarterly, Volume ...

7. Carnegie Quarterly, Volume VIII, Number 3. Page 1

Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • Format: periodicals
  • Date: 1960
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VIII. Printed Material. Vol 29
  • Abstract: In addition to annual reports, the Carnegie Corporation produced other periodic publications, presenting a more detailed description of Carnegie-sponsored projects in a variety of fields. This issue of Carnegie Quarterly is dedicated to the topic of the post-colonial higher education system in the West Indies.
Catalog of the Music Study ...

8. Catalog of the Music Study Materials

Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • Format: books
  • Date: January 1937
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.B. Reports on Grants, 1911-1983. Box no. 233
  • Abstract: Distributing the “College Art Sets” and the “College Music Sets” to hundreds of institutions in the United States and British Commonwealth has been one of significant initiatives by the Carnegie Corporation during the 1920s-1930s. The art sets contain ed approximately 200 art history books, 1,500 mounted photographs of architecture, sculpture and painting, and small collections of original prints and textiles, all housed in specially made wood cabinet. The music sets contained an electric phonograph, over 800 records housed in a cabinet, 250 bound scores, and 129 books on musical subjects. The contents varied slightly over the years. More modest art sets were also distributed to secondary schools.
Celebration of Andrew Carne...

9. 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.
Certificate of Appreciation...

10. Certificate of Appreciation for Carnegie Corporation

Smithsonian Institution
  • Name: Smithsonian Institution (Author)
  • Format: legal documents
  • Date: [1972]
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VII. Andrew Carnegie. VII.A. CCNY Carnegie Files. Box no. 2
  • Abstract: Carnegie Corporation of New York donated the Carnegie Mansion and property to the Smithsonian Institution in 1972, and the modern incarnation of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum opened there in 1976.
Chart, showing inability of...

11. Chart, showing inability of the Carnegie Foundation to meet expectations under the free pension plan.

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching‏
  • Format: manuscripts
  • Date: [1916]
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
  • Abstract: For the first few years of the CFAT's existence, its principal function was in selecting eligible institutions and establishing rules for receiving retirement allowances. The resulting financial obligations ended up being greatly in excess of CFAT re sources, and were only fulfilled by 1973, after spending over 6 million dollars of CFAT endowment and a 15 million dollar loan from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Columbia University Grant R...

12. Columbia University Grant Report -- Bureau of Applied Social Research, Review of Educational Testing. Cover page

  • Format: books
  • Date: [Summer 1961]
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.B. Reports on Grants, 1911-1983. Box no. 38
Columbia University Grant R...

13. Columbia University Grant Report -- Conference on the African University and National Educational Development. Cover page

Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • Format: books
  • Date: between September 8 and 18, 1964
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.B. Reports on Grants, 1911-1983. Box no. 39
  • Abstract: The first donations to Columbia University (Astronomy Observatory, Teachers College, College of Pharmacy, etc.) were made by Andrew Carnegie himself and go back to the early 1900s. The Corporation has worked with Columbia ever since, with total donat ions exceeding 20 million dollars. This is a small sample of reports, produced by various Columbia University affiliates under Carnegie Corporation grants.
Columbia University Grant R...

14. Columbia University Grant Report -- The Educational Future of Columbia University. Cover page

Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • Format: books
  • Date: 1957
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.B. Reports on Grants, 1911-1983. Box no. 38
Columbia University List of...

15. Columbia University List of Faculty

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching‏
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: August 1905
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
Contract for “The Psycho-An...

16. 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.
Creating A Trust for the Be...

17. 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.
Ghana University of - Confe...

18. 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.
The Graduate Records Examin...

19. The Graduate Records Examination. Cover page

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching‏
  • Format: pamphlets
  • Date: 1941
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
  • Abstract: Graduate Records Examination grew out of the project for the CFAT in the early 1930s to study the outcomes of college education. Carnegie Corporation of New York played a key role in funding the study, and then helping to accommodate the test to new r ealities after World War II, when a much larger student body began to pursue graduate degrees.
Higher Education in Tanzani...

20. Higher Education in Tanzania: A Case Study. Front cover

Mkude, Daniel J.
  • Name: Mkude, Daniel J. (Author) Cooksey, Brian (Author) Levey, Lisbeth A. (Author)
  • Format: books
  • Date: 2003
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.G.. Box no. 9
  • Abstract: This publication was produced by the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa (PHEA), a coordinated initiative of grant-making support to strengthen African universities among seven United States-based philanthropic foundations in 2000-2010, bringin g Carnegie Corporation's educational initiatives to the twenty-first century.
History of European War Pro...

21. History of European War Project Plan

Clark, John Bates, 1847-1938
  • Name: Clark, John Bates, 1847-1938 (Author)
  • Format: legal documents
  • Date: October 22, 1914
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
  • Abstract: After the outbreak of World War I, the Division commissioned a series of studies dealing with topics of immediate importance in connection with the war. This proposal by J.B. Clark presents a plan for the publication of Economic and Social History of the World War. The resulting seminal 150-volume History contained General, American, British, Austrian/Hungarian, Belgian, Bulgarian, Czechoslovak, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Netherland, Polish, Rumanian, Russian, Scandinavian, Serbian, and Turkish series written by eminent scholars from these countries.
Lagos University Meeting of...

22. 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.
Medical Education in the Un...

23. Medical Education in the United States and Canada. Title page

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching‏
  • Format: books
  • Date: 1910
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
  • Abstract: This report by Abraham Flexner (1866-1959) described 155 U.S. and Canadian medical schools, examined the state of American medical education and led to dramatic changes in the way doctors were trained, and influenced many studies of academic quality.
Meeting of Inter-University...

24. 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.
Meeting of the Carnegie Fou...

25. 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.
Memorandum of Agreement bet...

26. Memorandum of Agreement between Carnegie Corporation of New York and Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America as to Professors Annuities. Cover

Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • Format: pamphlets
  • Date: March 28, 1929
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.B. Reports on Grants, 1911-1983. Box no. 124
  • Abstract: By 1917, the CFAT trustees, after an extensive study, concluded that a pension system paid out of income at no cost to the beneficiary was expensive beyond all estimates and anticipation. In 1917-1918, under an arrangement negotiated by Andrew Carneg ie and the CFAT the CCNY gave $1 million to found the Teachers Insurance Annuity Association of America, an occupation-wide contributory plan, believed by some to embody more closely Carnegie’s original vision of the teachers’ pension plan. The nonprofit stock of the association, now called TIAA-CREF was owned outright by the Corporation until 1938, when it was transferred to an independent board of trustees. CCNY continued to support TIAA with grants until 1957.
Mounted checks issued by th...

27. Mounted checks issued by the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching‏
  • Format: legal documents
  • Date: 1905, 1906
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
  • Abstract: In April 1905, Andrew Carnegie announced the creation of the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching (CFAT), a $10,000,000 pension fund for teachers in institutions of higher education (with additional five million dollars added in 1908 to pro vide pensions for teachers in state colleges). These mounted checks were issued to the Foundation's own executives: H. S. Pritchett, the CFAT president and Charles W. Eliot, the Harvard University President and the first CFAT Board Chairman. The third check is for William T. Harris, the United States Commissioner of Education from 1889 to 1906, and one of the 30 founding members of the Simplified Spelling Board.
Note to Henry Smith Pritche...

28. Note to Henry Smith Pritchett in response to the Teachers Retirement Survey

Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853-1918
  • Name: Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853-1918 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: April 13, 1909
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
  • Abstract: Frederick Remsen Hutton (1853-1918) was a Columbia College graduate of 1873, Columbia University professor of Mechanical engineering, and a Dean of Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He also was a Vice President of the Carnegie-su pported American Museum of Safety, and a Secretary of the Carnegie-supported United Engineering Society.
Original Request for Inform...

29. Original Request for Information

Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939
  • Name: Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939 (Author) Vanderlip, Frank A. (Frank Arthur), 1864-1937 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: June 30, 1905
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
  • Abstract: Copies of this letter were sent to colleges and universities potentially eligible for Carnegie Foundation pensions. The responses from several hundred institutions, held in the archives, paint a rich and varied picture of the state of higher educatio n in the United States and Canada.
Photograph of Frederick P. ...

30. 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.
Photograph of George A. Pli...

31. 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.
Photograph of James T. Shot...

32. 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.
Poster for Chaire Carnegie ...

33. 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.
Poster for Chaire Carnegie ...

34. 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.
Public Television, a Progra...

35. Public Television, a Program for Action: the report and recommendations of the Carnegie Commission on Educational Television. Front cover

Carnegie Commission on Educational Television
  • Name: Carnegie Commission on Educational Television (Author)
  • Format: books
  • Date: 1967
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VIII. Printed Material
  • Abstract: Growing recognition of the power of TV as an educator prompted formation of the Carnegie Commission on Educational Television, whose recommendations were adopted in the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the public broadcasting system.
Record of Interview with Fr...

36. Record of Interview with Frederick P. Keppel

Dollard, Charles, 1907-1977
  • Name: Dollard, Charles, 1907-1977 (Interviewer)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: April 15, 1942
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 74
  • Abstract: The former Carnegie Corporation president Frederick P. Keppel and the future Carnegie Corporation president Charles Dollard discuss the origins of the Economic and Social History of the World War project.
Records of College Donations

37. Records of College Donations

Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • Format: albums
  • Date: 1901-1930
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series I. Administrative Records, 1872-1996. I.C. Financial Record Books, 1872-1987. Box no. 5
  • Abstract: This volume contains the records of donations made by Andrew Carnegie and later by Carnegie Corporation of New York to colleges and universities for their endowments, libraries, scholarships, new buildings, programs and research.
Report of the President on ...

38. Report of the President on Visit to Southern British Dominions. Front cover

Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943
  • Name: Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943 (Author)
  • Format: pamphlets
  • Date: 1935
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VIII. Printed Material. Box no. 4
  • Abstract: The overseas program of the Corporation was greatly expanded after Frederick Keppel and James Bertram undertook a trip to Africa in 1927. The travel reports, such as this Keppel's 1935 Report on Australia, New Zealand and Southern Africa shown here, not only set forth priorities for the Corporation's grant making but also provided valuable information on the social conditions and the state of education in the region.
Report submitted to the Car...

39. Report submitted to the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Front cover

Children's Television Workshop
  • Name: Children's Television Workshop (Author)
  • Format: corporation reports
  • Date: 1973
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 489
  • Abstract: A 1966 Carnegie Corporation of New York grant to study the feasibility of entertaining and teaching through television launched and funded the Children's Television Workshop, the producer of Sesame Street, the Electric Company and other noted children 's educational programs that revolutionized children's television The Corporation has been its supporter ever since.
South Africa: the Cordoned ...

40. South Africa: the Cordoned Heart. Front cover

Badsha, Omar
  • Name: Wilson, Francis, 1939- (Author)
  • Format: books
  • Date: May 1986
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VIII. Printed Material. CO
  • Abstract: Following Afrikaner political ascendance in 1951, the Corporation ceased grantmaking in South Africa for more than two decades. The Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa (the first one, focused on the poor white popul ation, was conducted in the 1930s) created to examine the legacies of apartheid and to make recommendations on achieving a democratic, interracial society, was started in the mid-1970s. One of the projects, funded by the Inquiry, this collection of 136 pictures taken by 20 South African photographers poignantly documents the evils of apartheid. It is accompanied by valuable text from presentations made at Carnegie-sponsored 1984 Cape Town conference.
Summer Session for Teachers...

41. 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).
Typed letter, signed, to An...

42. 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...

43. 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
Typed letter signed to Fran...

44. Typed letter signed to Frank A. Vanderlip

Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943
  • Name: Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: August 12, 1905
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
  • Abstract: This letter from Keppel, then the Secretary of Columbia University, to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, accompanied the Columbia University List of Faculty (see the first page of the list shown below) submitted to the CFAT in order to calculate their retirement allowances under the original Carnegie plan.
Typed letter signed to Henr...

45. 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 He...

46. Typed letter, signed, to Henry Smith Pritchett in response to the Teachers Retirement Survey

Van Amringe, J. Howard (John Howard), 1835-1915
  • Name: Van Amringe, J. Howard (John Howard), 1835-1915 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: May 2, 1915
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
  • Abstract: John Howard Van Amringe (1836-1915) graduated from Columbia in 1860. Thereafter, he taught mathematics at Columbia, holding a professorship from 1865 to 1910 when he retired. Van Amringe was also the first Dean of Columbia College, memorialized with a bust enshrined in a column-supported cupola on "Van Am Quad" in the southeastern portion of the campus.
Typed letter signed to Jame...

47. Typed letter signed to James T. Shotwell regarding one of the books in Economic and Social History of the World War series

Hoover, Herbert C.
  • Name: Hoover, Herbert C. (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: December 30, 1924
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
Typed letter signed to Loui...

48. Typed letter signed to Louise Whitfield Carnegie

Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947
  • Name: Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: December 17, 1945
  • Collection Name: Nicholas Murray Butler Papers
Typed letter signed to Nich...

49. Typed letter signed to Nicholas Murray Butler

Carnegie, Louise Whitfield, 1857-1946
  • Name: Carnegie, Louise Whitfield, 1857-1946 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: December 11, 1945
  • Collection Name: Nicholas Murray Butler Papers
Typed letter signed to Nich...

50. Typed letter signed to Nicholas Murray. Butler

Carnegie, Louise Whitfield, 1857-1946
  • Name: Carnegie, Louise Whitfield, 1857-1946 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: December 11, 1945
  • Collection Name: Nicholas Murray Butler Papers