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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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.