Universities and colleges--Finance; Universities and colleges--Endowments; College buildings--Finance; Providence (R.I.); Brown University
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
[between 1886 and 1919?]
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)
During his lifetime, Carnegie contributed over $350 million to cultural and educational institutions. With education and world peace as his main charitable causes, the Carnegie trusts, foundations and endowments benefited schools, universities, as wel l thousands of libraries worldwide. He contributed half of the $300,000 building costs for the John Hay Library at Brown University, which opened in 1910; and asked to name it after the 1858 Brown alumnus...It was the custom of the Carnegie Corporation to provide the institutions it endowed with lithographic reproductions of a portrait of Andrew Carnegie. Brown University acquired two of these prints, which in years past were erroneously catalogued as original oil paintings. This fundamental misunderstanding has been disseminated so widely that the University Archives occasionally receives inquiries from researchers wishing to see the original painting, which has never been at Brown and whose location is now unknown." [SOURCE: "Brown University Portrait Collection - CARNEGIE, ANDREW (1835-1919)." Brown University Office of the Curator, https://library.brown.edu/cds/portraits/display.php?idno=66. Accessed 9 Aug. 2018.]