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This collection contains primary resources about Carnegie's bequests along with supporting explanatory text, that teachers will be able to use as part of their curriculum.
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(James Bertram to W.J. Holland, May 8, 1908)
Bertram, James, 1872-1934--Correspondence, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919, Carnegie Museum, Commercial china, Bills of lading
An addendum to James Bertram's letter of the 5th to William Jacob Holland, stating that the inventory for a shipment of chinaware for the museum has ""turned up.""
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(James M. Bovard to Miss Florence Anderson, Secretary, November 15, 1966)
Bovard, James M.--Correspondence, Anderson, Florence--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Institute, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Public libraries--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
A letter from James M. Bovard to Florence Anderson, secretary at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, in response to Anderson's letter, thanking her for sending the Carnegie letters which he has given to the Library. A typed note at the bottom of the letter reads ""Copy to Mr. Doms.""
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(J.B. to Dr. Holland, December 13, 1909)
Bertram, James, 1872-1934--Correspondence, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence, Carnegie Museum--Endowments, Natural history museums--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--Endowments
An initialed typescript letter presumably from James Bertram, Andrew Carnegie's personal secretary, to William Holland, Director of the Carnegie Museum, acknowledging the receipt of Holland's December 10th letter, presumably requesting additional money for next year's Fossil Fund, and informing Holland that Carnegie has directed his business secretary Robert Franks to send Holland $15,000 for the Fund in a day or two.
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Job for Roosevelt?; (S.H. Church to Andrew Carnegie, March 20, 1908)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919, Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919, Education--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937, University of Chicago, Church, Samuel H.--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Carnegie Institute, Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh
Contains a newspaper clipping and handwritten letter. The newspaper clipping from an unidentified newspaper reports that Andrew Carnegie has offered President Roosevelt a ""large salary to take up educational work at the end of his term"". Mr. Carnegie was reported as leaving ""a system for education that will make John D. Rockefeller's Chicago University pale into insignificance"". The article states that Carnegie was evasive when asked about the Washington (D.C.) rumor and he said: ""I can't be blamed for what folks want to imagine"". The handwritten letter from Samuel H. Church to Andrew Carnegie makes reference presumably to the above mentioned newspaper clipping of March 18, 1908. In the letter Church expresses his interest in Roosevelt taking charge of the ""associated institutions at Pittsburgh"". Church writes that he could ""oversee the Literary and Publicity departments"" and he could also leave the ""railroad"". He ends by writing ""we would (beat?) the world.""
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(John A. Poynton to Colonel S.H. Church, December 10, 1915)
Poynton, John A.--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919, Wilson, Margaret Barclay, Public libraries--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
A letter from John A. Poynton to Colonel S.H. Church referencing Miss Margaret Barclay Wilson, a professor in the Normal College, who will be sending an anthology she has just written about Andrew Carnegie.
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(John A. Poynton to Samuel H. Church, January 16, 1918)
Poynton, John A.--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, McKahan, Mary S., Hamerschlag, Arthur Arton, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Actions and defenses, X-rays
A typescript letter from John A. Poynton to Samuel Harden Church regarding charges made by Mary S. McKahan against the Carnegie Institute of Technology regarding x-ray experimentation that left her with severe burns. A notation appears in pencil at the bottom of the page, signed ""M.G.R.,"" indicating that a copy of McKahan's letter has been retained by Arthur Hamerschlag. On personal letterhead of Andrew Carnegie.
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(John A. Poynton to S.H. Church, April 6, 1917)
Poynton, John A.--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Health, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Industrial relations--United States, Labor world (San Francisco, Calif.), Equal opportunities
A typescript letter (signed) from John A. Poynton to Samuel Harden Church. Poynton informs Church that he has not been able to show Andrew Carnegie a specified article on the topic of labor because he (Carnegie) was suffering from a ""slight cold"" but goes on to offer his own opinion of the article, revealing an anti-labor/pro-capital bias. Poynton also mentions that there will be a meeting of the full board of trustees of the Carnegie Corporation of New York before adjourning for the summer. On personal letterhead of Andrew Carnegie. Includes penciled notation ""for reply.""
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(John A. Poynton to S.H. Church, August 11, 1915)
Poynton, John A.--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Health, Bar Harbor (Me.), Vacations
A signed typescript letter from John A. Poynton to Samuel Harden Church. Poynton expresses pleasure that Andrew Carnegie is ""quite his old self again"" and also that the Churches will be vacationing at Bar Harbor, Maine. Includes penciled postscript: ""will write him.""
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(John A. Poynton to S.H. Church, December 20, 1916)
Poynton, John A.--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Portraits, Butler, Howard Russell, 1856-1934, Carnegie Institute, Painters--United States, Art
A typescript letter (signed) from John A. Poynton to Samuel Harden Church regarding a letter from Church to painter Howard Russell Butler concerning a portrait of Andrew Carnegie that Butler had promised the Carnegie Institute. On personal letterhead of Andrew Carnegie.
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(John A. Poynton to S.H. Church, December 27, 1916)
Poynton, John A.--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew--Portraits, Butler, Howard Russell, 1856-1934, Carnegie Institute, Painters--United States, Art
A typescript letter (signed) from John A. Poynton to Samuel Harden Church acknowledging Church's clarification of the misunderstanding concerning Howard Russell Butler's portrait of Andrew Carnegie. On personal letterhead of Andrew Carnegie.
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(John A. Poynton to S.H. Church, January 3, 1916)
Poynton, John A.--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Travel--New York (State)--New York, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919, Carnegie, Louise, Carnegie Institute. Board of Trustees, Everglades (Fla.), Winter
A typescript letter (signed) from John A. Poynton to Samuel Harden Church. Poynton expresses regret that he was unable to see Church during the latter's visit to New York and discusses the Carnegies' upcoming winter stay in the South (i.e. the Florida Everglades). On personal letterhead of Andrew Carnegie.
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(John A. Poynton to S.H. Church, June 18, 1918)
Poynton, John A.--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Carnegie, Louise, Bertram, James, 1872-1934, Founder's Day (Carnegie Institute)
A typescript letter (signed) from John A. Poynton to Samuel Harden Church. Poynton states that Church's letter of the 6th reached Mrs. Carnegie but the Founder's Day book did not, and, consequently, she has borrowed a copy from James Bertram. Poynton then requests that a copy of the book be sent to him. On Shadowbrook letterhead.
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(John A. Poynton to S.H. Church, March 13, 1916)
Poynton, John A.-- Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1836-1919--Health, Carnegie, Margaret, Everglades (Fla.), Winter
A signed typescript letter from John A. Poynton to Samuel Harden Church. Poynton, writing from the Florida Everglades, comments on the improved condition of Andrew Carnegie's health.
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(John A. Poynton to S.H. Church, May 22, 1915)
Poynton, John A.--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Carnegie Institute, MacDougall, Donald, 1854-1920. Scots and Scots descendants in America, Scots--United States, Scottish Americans
A typescript letter (signed) from John A. Poynton to Samuel Harden Church. Poynton requests a photograph of the Carnegie Institute building for the article on Andrew Carnegie to appear in Donald MacDougall's upcoming book Scots and Scots descendants in America. Shorthand appears in pencil in the lower margin. On personal letterhead of Andrew Carnegie.
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(John A. Poynton to S.H. Church, May 29, 1917)
Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Poynton, John A.--Correspondence, Bertram, James, 1872-1934, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Trusts and trustees, Corporate meetings
A typescript letter (signed) from John A. Poynton to S.H. Church. Poynton informs Church that if the meeting of the Carnegie Corporation trustees is to be held in Pittsburgh, he will be unable to attend and regrets not seeing him (Church). On personal letterhead of Andrew Carnegie.
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(John Billings to Andrew Carnegie, Apr. 20, 1906)
Billings, J. S. (John S.)--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Public libraries--United States--Statistics
Typescript letter by New York Public Library director J.S. (John) Billings, replying to a request from Andrew Carnegie for data on public libraries.
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(John W. Beatty to Andrew Carnegie, December 6, 1910)
Beatty, John W. (John Wesley), 1851-1924--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Carnegie Institute. Dept. of Fine Arts, Lauder, George, Lauder, Maggie, Schenley, Mary Croghan--Portraits, Art
A letter from John W. Beatty to Andrew Carnegie concerning the Carnegie Institute's acceptance of a portrait of Mary Schenley donated by George and Maggie Lauder. On Carnegie Institute letterhead.
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(John W. Beatty to Andrew Carnegie, May 11, 1908)
Beatty, John W. (John Wesley), 1851-1924--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Carnegie Museum, Downes, William Howe, 1854-1941, Art, Modern--Exhibitions, Boston evening transcript (Boston, Mass. : 1872), Art critics, Millet, Frank D., Carnegie Institute. Dept. of Fine Arts, Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792, Busts, American Academy in Rome, Art
A typescript letter (signed) from John W. Beatty to Andrew Carnegie concerning comments made by William Howe Downes, art critic for the Boston evening transcript, about ""the exhibition in and around Pittsburgh,"" based upon which Beatty believes it is ""up to our standard."" In a postscript, Beatty states that the bust of John Paul Jones ""came on Saturday from Mr. Millet."" On letterhead of the Carnegie Institute.
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(Joseph C. Wasson to William Nimick Frew, November 7, 1908)
Wasson, Joseph C.--Correspondence, Frew, William Nimick--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919, Heinroth, Charles, 1874-1963, Carnegie Music Hall, Joseph Horne Co., Organ (Musical instrument), Music
A typescript letter (signed) from Joseph C. Wasson to William Nimick Frew. Wasson asks Frew to approach Andrew Carnegie for the donation of a new organ for the music hall. On letterhead of the Joseph Horne Company.
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(Joseph G. Armstrong to Mr. S.H. Church, February 1, 1915)
Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Armstrong, Joseph G.--Correspondence, Macbeth, George A., Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh--Finance, Public libraries--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
A letter from Joseph G. Armstrong, Mayor of Pittsburgh, to Mr. S.H. Church, President, Carnegie Institute, in response to copy of letter sent to him and Mr. George A. Macbeth regarding contributions to the Carnegie Library.
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