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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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(Andrew Carnegie to Samuel Harden Church, November 18, 1908)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Lambert, George, Sir, Carnegie Institute, Carnegie Steel Company, Steel-works--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
A typescript letter (signed) from Andrew Carnegie to Samuel Harden Church. Carnegie requests that Church show the visiting Sir George Lambert the Carnegie Institute and ""the manufactories"" (i.e., the Carnegie Steel plants). On personal letterhead.
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(Andrew Carnegie to Samuel Harden Church, November 18, 1908 (copy))
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Lambert, George, Sir, Carnegie Institute, Carnegie Steel Company, Steel-works--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
A typescript letter (signed) from Andrew Carnegie to Samuel Harden Church. Carnegie requests that Church show the visiting Sir George Lambert the Carnegie Institute and ""the manufactories"" (i.e., the Carnegie Steel plants). Marked ""Copy of letter.""
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(Andrew Carnegie to S.H. Church, April 25, 1908)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Money, Philanthropists--United States, Endowments, Carnegie Institute, Carnegie Institute. Technical Schools, Western University of Pennsylvania, Allegheny Observatory, Degrees, Academic, Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937, University of Chicago--Endowments, Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Western University of Pennsylvania--Endowments, Carnegie Museum--Endowments, Carnegie Institute. Dept. of Fine Arts--Endowments, Carnegie Institute. Technical Schools--Endowments, Universities and colleges--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--Endowments, Natural history museums--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--Endowments, Art museums--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--Endowments, Technical Institutes--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--Endowments, Founder's Day (Carnegie Institute), Carnegie Institute--Anniversaries, etc., Scotland
A typescript letter (signed) from Andrew Carnegie to S.H. Church. Carnegie thanks Church for replying to his inquiry into what he would do if he had at his disposal $5-10 million, and states that he will not be able to deal with the subject before sailing to Scotland for summer holiday. On personal letterhead.
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(Andrew Carnegie to S.H. Church, April 25, 1908 (copy))
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Money, Philanthropists--United States, Endowments, Carnegie Institute, Carnegie Institute. Technical Schools, Western University of Pennsylvania, Allegheny Observatory, Degrees, Academic, Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937, University of Chicago--Endowments, Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Western University of Pennsylvania--Endowments, Carnegie Museum--Endowments, Carnegie Institute. Dept. of Fine Arts--Endowments, Carnegie Institute. Technical Schools--Endowments, Universities and colleges--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--Endowments, Natural history museums--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--Endowments, Art museums--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--Endowments, Technical Institutes--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--Endowments, Founder's Day (Carnegie Institute), Carnegie Institute--Anniversaries, etc., Scotland
A typescript letter (signed) from Andrew Carnegie to S.H. Church. Carnegie thanks Church for replying to his inquiry into what he would do if he had at his disposal $5-10 million, and states that he will not be able to deal with the subject before sailing to Scotland for summer holiday. Marked ""Copy of letter.""
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(Andrew Carnegie to S.H. Church, December 27, 1913)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Founders Day (Carnegie Institute), Carnegie Institute--Anniversaries, etc.
A signed typescript letter from Andrew Carnegie to Samuel Church thanking him for sending the ""two volumes"" (an initialed penciled notation from Church indicates that the volumes contained Founder's Day books ""from the beginning""). Carnegie notes that he is planning to use the text from his opening day speech as reported in these volumes in his memoirs because he feels it is the best statement of his surplus wealth doctrine. In an initialed postscript handwritten in ink, Carnegie mentions that he suspects Church may have edited and improved upon the original speech.
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(Andrew Carnegie to S.H. Church, December 8, 1904)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Health, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Health, Chadwick, Elizabeth Bigley, 1857-1907, Swindlers and swindling--United States
A handwritten letter from Andrew Carnegie to Samuel Church, Secretary of the Carnegie Institute Board of Trustees, expressing concern about Church's health and discussing his own health problems. The letter ends with a short reference to the case of Cassie Chadwick, a woman who claimed to be Carnegie's illegitimate daughter and used forged securities to commit bank fraud, saying, ""That Chadwick case doesn't annoy me in the least.""
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(Andrew Carnegie to S.H. Church, February 10, 1912)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, University of Pittsburgh--Anniversaries, University of Aberdeen, University of St. Andrews, Universities and colleges--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Universities and colleges--Scotland
A typescript letter from Andrew Carnegie to S.H. Church requesting that Church stand in for him as representative of St. Andrew's University and Aberdeen University at the University of Pittsburgh's 125th anniversary celebrations. Includes postscript in ink.
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(Andrew Carnegie to S.H. Church, January 30, 1912)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Technical institutes--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Universities and colleges--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Arts--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
A typescript letter from Andrew Carnegie to Samuel Harden Church discussing Pittsburgh's ranking in higher and technical education and the arts in comparison with cities in the East. On Carnegie's personal letterhead.
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(Andrew Carnegie to S.H. Church, January 30, 1912 (copy))
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Technical institutes--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Universities and colleges--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Arts--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
A typescript letter from Andrew Carnegie to Samuel Harden Church discussing Pittsburgh's ranking in higher and technical education and the arts in comparison with cities in the East. Marked ""Copy of letter"".
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(Andrew Carnegie to S.H. Church, January 8, 1913)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Byers, Alexander M., 1827-1900--Art collections, Carnegie Institute. Dept. of Fine Arts, Art museums--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
A signed typescript letter from Andrew Carnegie to Samuel Church, Secretary of the Carnegie Institute Board of Trustees, written in response to a copy of a January 6th letter that Church sent to Carnegie Institute of Fine Arts Director John Beatty. Carnegie expresses endorsement for getting the Byers pictures, presumably the art collection of industrialist Alexander M. Byers, into the Carnegie Institute gallery as a first step, with permanent possession as the ultimate goal.
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(Andrew Carnegie to S.H. Church, March 20, 1911)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Carnegie, Louise, Church, Bertha Jean, Luncheons--New York (State)--New York
A typescript letter from Andrew Carnegie to Samuel H. Church regarding a time that Mr. and Mrs. Carnegie would like to have lunch with him and Mrs. (Bertha Jean) Church.
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(Andrew Carnegie to S.H. Church, March 20, 1911 (copy))
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Carnegie, Louise, Church, Bertha Jean, Luncheons--New York (State)--New York
A typescript letter from Andrew Carnegie to Samuel H. Church regarding a time that Mr. and Mrs. Carnegie would like to have lunch with him and Mrs. (Bertha Jean) Church. Marked ""Copy of Letter"".
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(Andrew Carnegie to S.H. Church, May 4, 1919)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Hamerschlag, Arthur Arton, Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939, Carnegie, Louise, Carnegie Institute of Technology--Finance, Carnegie Institute of Technology--Students, Dormitories--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
A typescript letter (signed) from Andrew Carnegie to Samuel Harden Church. Carnegie requests a statement showing the costs and expenditures of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, expresses displeasure with Hamerschlag's idea of taking over ""Mr. Lovejoy's establishment"" for a dormitory, and states that he is grieved to learn that so many of the students are from other cities, as the Institute was created for ""Pittsburgh and its neighborhood."" He concludes by informing Church that Mrs. Carnegie ""greatly appreciated (his) reply."" On personal letterhead.
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(Andrew Carnegie to S.H. Church, May 6, 1912)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Founder's Day (Carnegie Institute), Carnegie Institute
A typescript letter from Andrew Carnegie to Samuel Harden Church thanking Church for sending him a volume of newspaper clippings on Carnegie Institute's Founder's Day.
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(Andrew Carnegie to S.H. Church, May 6, 1912 (copy))
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Founder's Day (Carnegie Institute), Carnegie Institute
A typescript letter from Andrew Carnegie to Samuel Harden Church thanking Church for sending him a volume of newspaper clippings on the Carnegie Institute's Founder's Day festivities. Includes notation in pencil: ""Founder's Day clipping from newspapers"". Marked ""Copy of Letter"".
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(Andrew Carnegie to S.H. Church, May 9, 1911)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Simplified Spelling Board, Scott, C. P. G. (Charles Payson Gurley), 1853-1936--Correspondence, Spelling reform, English language--Orthography and spelling
A typescript letter from Andrew Carnegie to Samuel H. Church regarding a letter from the Secretary of the Simplified Spelling Board, (C.G.P. Scott) asking Church to ""read, note, and inwardly digest, and much oblige"" the letter from Scott.
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(Andrew Carnegie to S.H. Church, November 25, 1913)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence
A signed typescript letter from Andrew Carnegie to Samuel Church thanking him for his November 24th letter. An initialed handwritten notation in pencil from Church at the bottom of the letter indicates that it was written and signed on Carnegie's 79th birthday.
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(Chas. L. Taylor to S.H. Church, February 16, 1912)
Taylor, Chas. L.--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Universities and colleges--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Technical institutes--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
A typescript letter from Chas. L. Taylor, President of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, to Samuel Harden Church concerning the similarities and differences in the missions of the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Institute of Technology. Marked ""Personal"".
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(J.A. Poynton to Col. S.H. Church, May, 21, 1914)
Poynton, John A.--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Carnegie, Louise, Lwoff-Parlaghy, Vilma Elisabeth, Princess, 1863-1923, Painters--Hungary, Portraits, Art commissions, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Portraits, Philanthropists--United States--Portraits, Butler, Howard Russell, 1856-1934, Pittsburgh (Pa.), Cunningham, Charles R., Carnegie Institute
A typescript letter from John A. Poynton, Andrew Carnegie's personal secretary, to Col. Samuel Harden Church explaining that Mrs. Louise Carnegie thinks the portrait painted by Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy of Andrew Carnegie is not good enough to be displayed in the President's office. The portrait is the costliest portrait painted of him to date but it is not the best portrait of him. Mr. Butler's painting of Andrew Carnegie ""is considered the finest likeness"" and Mrs. Carnegie is having a replica made of this painting and will have it sent to Church's ""address at Pittsburgh"". On Andrew Carnegie stationary, signed in ink by J.A. Poynton. Includes handwritten ink notations: ""Informal"" at top of letter, correction in body of letter and a handwritten note at bottom of letter from Samuel H. Church to Mr. Cunningham (custodian of buildings and grounds at the Carnegie Institute), dated May 22, 1914, asking Cunningham to note and return this letter along with another letter sent to him ""today"" (presumably a letter dated May 20, 1914 from J.A. Poynton to Col. S.H. Church)
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(J.A. Poynton to Mr. Church, May 17, 1915)
Poynton, John A.--Correspondence, Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh--Employees, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh--Finance, Public libraries--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
A letter from J.A. Poynton to Mr. Church regarding a check for expenses for dismissed employees of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
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