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Program for Anniversary Lec...

121. Program for Anniversary Lectures at Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • Format: printed ephemera
  • Date: [1939]
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 74
  • Abstract: Carnegie Corporation of New York also provided the Carnegie Hall pension fund (1925), organ (1929) and supported a series of anniversary lectures and concert programs in 1939-1941.
Program for Evening Classes...

122. Program for Evening Classes in Workingman’s Club

Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • Format: pamphlets
  • Date: [1900]
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 60
Program suggestions for Wor...

123. Program suggestions for World Peace. Cover page

Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America
  • Name: Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America (Author)
  • Format: printed ephemera
  • Date: [between 1925 and 1961]
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Council on Ethics & International Affairs Records
Proposal for Adult Educatio...

124. Proposal for Adult Education Center

Greenwich House (Organisation)
  • Name: Greenwich House (Organisation) (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: March 1932
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 155
  • Abstract: Greenwich House was founded in 1902 as a settlement house to help New York's increasing immigrant population adjust to life in a new country. In the Carnegie Corporation records, the files of grant-related correspondence with settlement houses provide a wealth of information on life in immigrant communities (predominantly Eastern European or Italian) and on the settlement house activities within these communities.
The Public Broadcasting Act...

125. The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. Front

Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • Format: pamphlets
  • Date: 1967
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 527
Public Television, a Progra...

126. 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.
Reconstructing the Reims Li...

127. 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.
Reconstructing the Reims Li...

128. 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.
Reconstructing the Reims Li...

129. 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.
Reconstructing the Reims Li...

130. 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.
Record of Interview with Do...

131. Record of Interview with Donald Young

Gardner, John W. (John William), 1912-2002
  • Name: Gardner, John W. (John William), 1912-2002 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: February 13, 1945
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 327
  • Abstract: John Gardner, Carnegie Corporations president and SSRC director Don Young discuss emerging Area Study programs, a field of study pioneered by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which it funded directly (e.g. by founding the Harvard University Russian R esearch Center) and via SSRC.
Record of Interview with Fr...

132. 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.
Record of Interview with Jo...

133. Record of Interview with John D. Rockefeller, 3rd

Gardner, John W. (John William), 1912-2002
  • Name: Gardner, John W. (John William), 1912-2002 (Interviewer)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: September 13, 1956
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 658
  • Abstract: Carnegie Corporation of New York President John Gardner and John D. Rockefeller, 3rd discuss possible participation of the Corporation in the Lincoln Center project.
Record of Interview with Lo...

134. Record of Interview with Louise Carnegie and Margaret Carnegie-Miller

Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943
  • Name: Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943 (Author)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: February 15, 1937
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VII. Andrew Carnegie. VII.A. CCNY Carnegie Files. Box no. 2
  • Abstract: The record of a conversation with Andrew Carnegie's widow and daughter regarding the fate of the Carnegie Mansion on East 90th Street. Andrew Carnegie left the house to Louise, who lived there until her death in 1946.
Record of Interview with Ro...

135. Record of Interview with Robert Crane

Josephs, D. C. (Devereux Colt), 1893-1977
  • Name: Josephs, D. C. (Devereux Colt), 1893-1977 (Interviewer)
  • Format: correspondence
  • Date: July 2, 1945
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series III. Grants. III.A. Grant files, ca.1911-1988. Box no. 327
  • Abstract: The Social Science Research Council files in the Carnegie Corporation archives provide information on the social sciences development, and on the thought process of the Council and the Corporation. In this record, Devereux Joseph, the Corporation pr esident talks to SSRC director Robert Crane about promising directions in social science research.
Records of College Donations

136. 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.
Records of Library Donation...

137. Records of Library Donations, New Orleans

Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • Format: albums
  • Date: between 1905 and 1918
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series I. Administrative Records, 1872-1996. I.C. Financial Record Books, 1872-1987. Flat Box 486
Regulations : Andrew Carneg...

138. Regulations : Andrew Carnegie Relief Fund. Front Cover

Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • Format: pamphlets
  • Date: January 1, 1902
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VII. Andrew Carnegie. VII.A. CCNY Carnegie Files. Box no. 3
  • Abstract: In December 1901, the Carnegie Company announced that its advisory committee, chaired by Charles L. Taylor, had completed a workable plan of administering the Carnegie Relief Fund. The Fund officially became operative in January 1902.
Religion and World Peace. C...

139. Religion and World Peace. Cover page

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
  • Name: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Author)
  • Format: pamphlets
  • Date: [between 1925 and 1961]
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Council on Ethics & International Affairs Records
Remarks of Andrew Carnegie ...

140. Remarks of Andrew Carnegie before the Nineteenth Century Club upon "The Aristocracy of the Dollar". Cover page

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
  • Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
  • Format: pamphlets
  • Date: [between 1883 and 1886]
  • Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VII. Andrew Carnegie. VII.B. Printed Material. Box no. 4
  • Abstract: Andrew Carnegie moved to New York City in 1867. In 1883 he was elected to the Nineteenth Century Club of New York founded by Cortland Palmer, who invited best-known men of letters to speak to his club. Carnegie was invited to be one of the disputant s following the lecture by Thomas Wentworth Higginson critical of the new "Aristocracy of the Dollar." In his autobiography, Carnegie fondly remembered this "first introduction to a New York audience," which he later printed in pamphlet form. In 1886 Carnegie presented his work Triumphant Democracy to the Nineteenth Century Club, but soon resigned from the Club following his verbal attack on Palmer.