Carnegie Centennial Exhibition

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.

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919

Name: Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (Author)
Format: albums
Date: 1885-1897
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series I. Administrative Records, 1872-1996. I.C. Financial Record Books, 1872-1987. Flat Box 477
Abstract: An early journal shows entries for Andrew Carnegie’s charity expenses entered chronologically among other financial transactions.

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Format: albums
Date: 1901-1908
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series I. Administrative Records, 1872-1996. I.C. Financial Record Books, 1872-1987. Box no. 3
Abstract: This volume documents the first seven years of Andrew Carnegie's donations to communities for church organs. Carnegie was reported to joke that while he would not be responsible for what the preacher might say, he would be responsible for the positiv e influence of music.

Shepardson, Whitney H. (Whitney Hart), 1890-1966

Name: Shepardson, Whitney H. (Whitney Hart), 1890-1966 (Author)
Format: albums
Date: 1947
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VIII. Printed Material. Box no. 4
Abstract: After the Second World War the Corporation hired Whitney H. Shepardson as a director for the British Dominion and Colonies Fund. He traveled extensively, and came to the conclusion that the overseas scientists suffered from isolation, being cut off fr om their US and Canadian colleagues by the war and travel expenses. He then revived the program of travel grants on a much broader scale. This is the first volume in a five-volume log of his 1947 trip.

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.

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

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