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181. Typed letter signed to Nicholas Murray Butler
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: October 23, 1913
- Collection Name: Nicholas Murray Butler Papers
- Abstract: This letter to N. M. Butler discussed international arbitration and the Carnegie “Peace Fund” (i.e. Endowment for International Peace”). Carnegie ends the letter with his characteristic optimism “The task of Peace Fund is the abolition of man killing man…After its conquest, but not till then – next!”
182. 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
183. 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
184. Typed letter, signed, to Robert A. Franks
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: December 5, 1901
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VI. Other Carnegie Organizations, 1893-1981. VI.A. Home Trust Company. Box no. 3A
- Abstract: In this letter to Robert A. Franks, the president and director of the Carnegie Home Trust Company, Andrew Carnegie provides the first details on funding and payment arrangements for the Home Trust Company.
185. Typed letter, signed, to Robert A. Franks
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: May 5, 1908
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VI. Other Carnegie Organizations, 1893-1981. VI.A. Home Trust Company. Box no. 3
- Abstract: One of several hundred letters from Andrew Carnegie to Robert A. Franks authorizing payments for various charity causes. The letters were then stamped with transaction numbers, and transactions were recorded in various financial journals depending on the kind of donation. Separate journals were kept for donations to libraries, church organs, and educational institutions.
186. Typed letter, signed, to Robert A. Franks, regarding payments to Elizabeth Haldans
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: August 5, 1897
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VI. Other Carnegie Organizations, 1893-1981. VI.A. Home Trust Company. Box no. 1
- Abstract: Carnegie began his private list of pensioners in 1881. The list included persons of distinction from all fields – arts, politics, social service, education – who were in need. Other pensioners were his family members, figures from his earlier life, an d former work associates.
187. Typed letter, signed, to Robert A. Franks, regarding payments to Martha B. Hixon
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: August 7, 1919
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VI. Other Carnegie Organizations, 1893-1981. VI.A. Home Trust Company. Box no. 1
- Abstract: One of the last documents signed by Andrew Carnegie deals with yet another addition to his private pension list. At the time of his death on August 11, 1919 the list included 409 people.
188. Typed letter, signed, to the Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: January 13, 1913
- Collection Name: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Records
- Abstract: In this letter Carnegie announces a new Division of Educational Research within the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching with its own $1,250,000 endowment.
189. Typed Letter to David Homer Bates, signed with Ms. Note by Carnegie
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
- Format: correspondence
- Date: December, 16 1907
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VI. Other Carnegie Organizations, 1893-1981. VI.A. Home Trust Company. Box no. 1
- Abstract: Carnegie was a founder of the US Military Telegraph Corps of the Civil War. In 1907, upon request from David Homer Bates, the secretary of the Society of the United States Military Telegraph Corps, he established pensions for them; in a few years he e xtended pensions to their widows as well.
190. United Nations Advocacy in Cartoons. Page 4
Church Peace Union
- Name: Church Peace Union (Author)
- Format: printed ephemera
- Date: 1945
- Collection Name: Carnegie Council on Ethics & International Affairs Records
- Abstract: The Council (formerly known as the Church Peace Union) conducted public education campaign on the League of Nations, the United Nations, arms reduction etc. The collection includes public education materials produced by related organizations.
191. University of Louvain Library in World War II
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: photographs
- Date: 1940
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
- Abstract: The University of Louvain Library building burned down in the Second World War, and then had to be restored again.
192. University of Louvain Library Opening Ceremony Photographs
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: photographs
- Date: July 4th, 1928
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
193. University of Louvain Library Opening Ceremony Photographs
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: photographs
- Date: July 4th, 1928
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
194. University of Louvain Library Opening Ceremony Photographs
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: photographs
- Date: July 4th, 1928
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
195. Veterans Day Poster
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: posters
- Date: [1919]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
- Abstract: This early "Remember November 11th" poster was printed for the first anniversary of the official end of World War I, which was declared a Remembrance Day.
196. Visitor Statistics for the Library of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Paris Office
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Format: posters
- Date: 1929
- Collection Name: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices Records
- Abstract: The Carnegie Endowment was also involved in librarianship in many ways. It distributed publications to libraries all over the world, supported the American Library in Paris, and was involved in rebuilding libraries destroyed in the First World War. It also opened to the public its own library in Paris, built around Frédéric Passy's library of books on international affairs and law, which the Centre purchased from the Passy estate. Frédéric Passy was the first (1901) winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
197. Will and Codicil of Louise Carnegie. Page 6 (Carnegie Mansion)
Carnegie, Louise Whitfield, 1857-1946
- Name: Carnegie, Louise Whitfield, 1857-1946 (Author)
- Format: pamphlets
- Date: 1946
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VII. Andrew Carnegie. VII.A. CCNY Carnegie Files. Box no. 2
- Abstract: The Corporation held title to this property under the terms of the will of Mrs. Carnegie, except for the tennis court, which she left to neighboring Spence School for Girls.