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21. Carnegie Corporation Grant Disbursement Sheet for New York Academy of Medicine
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: correspondence
- Date: 1925
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 263
- Abstract: Carnegie Corporation of New York grant files document several years of planning, search for an appropriate site, and other activities related to the building of a new home for the Academy. Later the Corporation also gave grants for various studies, f or medical information service, and for development of the library.
22. Carnegie Corporation of New York Disbursement Sheet for the grant to Brookings Institution
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: correspondence
- Date: November 25, 1928
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 64
- Abstract: In 1927, the Institute of Economics, Institute for Government Research, and Robert S. Brookings Graduate School of Economics & Government merged to become Brookings Institution. Once again, Robert Brookings came forth with the initiative, and Carnegie Corporation of New York provided the funding.
23. Carnegie Family and Associates at the Opening of Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: printed ephemera
- Date: [June 28, 1928]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VII. Andrew Carnegie. VII.A. CCNY Carnegie Files. Box no. 1
- Abstract: The photograph, published in the Carnegie Magazine depicts Carnegie family and friends with the Birthplace Museum architect James Shearer and John Ross, the head of the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust during the Museum Opening Ceremony.
24. Carnegie Family Home Convention
Pittsburgh Gazette Times
- Format: photographs
- Date: 1910
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series X. Graphic Materials. X.C. Staff and Trustees. Flat Box 526
- Abstract: The Carnegie family in Pittsburgh on the return of Mr. Andrew Carnegie (front row, third from the left) and Mrs. Louise Whitfield Carnegie (front row, second from the left) from California en route to New York. Pittsburgh witnessed Carnegie's meteori c rise from bobbin boy on a cotton mill, to a telegraph operator then to a railroad manager, and finally to a steel industry titan. Over the years many other members of the extended family settled there as well. Andrew Carnegie moved to New York City in 1867, but Pittsburgh has always remained the site of his steel factories, and the recipient of many Carnegie benefactions.
25. Carnegie Home Trust Company Stock certificate no. 26
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: legal documents
- Date: 1902, 1925
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VI. Other Carnegie Organizations, 1893-1981. VI.A. Home Trust Company. Box no. 3A
- Abstract: Prior to 1911 the Carnegie Home Trust functioned as the de-facto predecessor of the Carnegie Corporation, providing funds for various charitable donations. The Company also served as the source from which Franks, according to Carnegie's instructions, distributed Steel bonds to the trustees of various philanthropic trusts started by Carnegie. After Carnegie's death and the settlement of his estate in 1925, Carnegie Corporation of New York administered the Home Trust Company, paying the remaining pensions, and dissolved it in 1973.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. Carnegie Library and Workingman's Club in Braddock, Pennsylvania, USA
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: correspondence
- Date: [1900]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 60
- Abstract: Carnegie built the free libraries in Braddock (1895), Homestead (1896) and Duquesne (1901) to serve the employees of Carnegie Steel Company mills in those towns, and their families. In the beginning, the local steel mill would subsidize the libraries in Braddock and Homestead. In addition to the libraries, Braddock, Duquesne and Homestead institutions housed “Workingman's Clubs," with gymnasiums, bowling alleys, swimming pools, night school rooms, kindergartens, and assembly halls.
29. Carnegie Medal
Manship, Paul
- Name: Manship, Paul (Designer)
- Format: objects
- Date: [1929]
- Collection Name: Frederick P. Keppel Papers
- Abstract: This medal and logo was designed for Carnegie Corporation of New York by a prominent American sculptor Paul Howard Manship (1885-1966) Pegasus, the winged mythological horse, is the central figure surrounded by the motto: "Carnegie Corporation for t he Advancement and Diffusion of Knowledge and Understanding."
30. 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.
31. 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.
32. 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.
33. 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.
34. 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.
35. 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.
36. Certificate of Incorporation of Home Trust Company
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: albums
- Date: [between 1899 and 1919]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VI. Other Carnegie Organizations, 1893-1981. VI.A. Home Trust Company. Box no. 3A
- Abstract: This ledger contains the minutes for the founding meeting of the Carnegie Home Trust Company. The Company was chartered on Oct. 22, 1901 in Hoboken, NJ. The only purpose of the Carnegie Home Trust Company was to invest, keep, and distribute the mone y for philanthropic activities, as well as distribute money and pensions to relatives, friends, and others as Andrew Carnegie thought appropriate. This was the beginning of Carnegie’s organized or “wholesale” philanthropy.
37. Certificate of US Naturalization
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: legal documents
- Date: 1885
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records
- Abstract: Born in Dunfermline, Scotland, Andrew Carnegie came to the United States in 1848 at the age of 12. Andrew, with his parents Margaret and William and his younger brother Tom, settled in Allegheny City, PA, because Margaret Carnegie's sisters had alrea dy been living in the area. This certificate was granted to Andrew Carnegie in New York, upon his presentation of a copy of the 1854 "statement of intention to become a citizen" made by his father William Carnegie to Allegheny County Clerk.
38. Chart of projections, 1925-1945
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: posters
- Date: May 20, 1925
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series IX. Oversize Material. Map Case 14.05.01
- Abstract: This bar chart shows the Corporation's income, obligations, probable grants and tentative program commitments in various areas.
39. 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.
40. 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