Carnegie Gifts and Grants to Bowdoin College, Maine

Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York (Author); Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author); Home Trust Company (Author)
Title: Carnegie Gifts and Grants to Bowdoin College, Maine
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records
Archival Context: Series II. Files on Microfilm. II.A. Gifts and Grants. II.A.4. Universities, Colleges, and Schools
Subjects: Universities and colleges--Finance; Universities and colleges--Endowments; Humanities--Endowments; Brunswick (Me.); Bowdoin College
Format: correspondence
Genre: Business correspondence
Date: Between December 19, 1907 and 1971
Physical Description: microfilm, 16 mm, b&w

Note (Reel no.): Reel 69
Note (Status of gift): Promised and made
Note: PDF may contain multiple grant documents.; Date based on grant approval.
Note (Historical note): Almost a Christmas gift to Bowdoin college was the letter received today by Pres. William DeWitt Hyde, in which Andrew Carnegie announced he would give Bowdoin $50,000 to endow the professorship of history and political science, in memory of Hon. Thom as Brackett Reed..." [SOURCE: "GIVES $,50,000 TO BOWDOIN." Boston Daily Globe (1872-1922), Dec 22, 1907, pp. 4. ProQuest, http://ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/500947839?accountid=10226. Accessed 6 Aug. 2018.]
Language: English
Library Location: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
Also In: Carnegie Corporation Oral History Project [Staging]
Copyright Status: No Copyright - United States
Persistent URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-y8hh-f544