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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 15, 1913)
(James Bertram (?) to W.J. Holland, May 15, 1913)
Bertram, James, 1872-1934--Correspondence, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence, Carnegie Museum, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Spain), Diplodocus, Dinosaurs--Models, Natural history museums--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Natural history museums--Spain--Madrid, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Travel--Europe, Museum directors--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
An unsigned typescript letter presumably from James Bertram, Andrew Carnegie's personal secretary, to William Holland written in response to Holland's May 12th letter to Andrew Carnegie. Bertram notes that Carnegie indicated in a penciled note on Holland's letter that he does not want Holland to use his own money to pay any expenses associated with a trip to Madrid to install their diplodocus and that he would like Holland to visit Skibo on his way home from Madrid.
(James Bertram (?) to Wm. J. Holland, July 3, 1907)
(James Bertram (?) to Wm. J. Holland, July 3, 1907)
Bertram, James, 1872-1934--Correspondence, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence, Diplodocus, Dinosaurs--Models, Natural history museums--France--Paris, Natural history museums--Germany--Berlin
An unsigned, typescript letter, presumably from James Bertram to William Holland, written in response to Holland's June 10th letter. Bertram instructs Holland to proceed with readying diplodocus models for Paris and Berlin and notes that Carnegie has promised to ""play Emperor"" and give Holland a title if he is not decorated when he travels to these cities to erect the models.
(James Bertram to Dr. W.J. Holland, March 24, 1908)
(James Bertram to Dr. W.J. Holland, March 24, 1908)
Bertram, James, 1872-1934--Correspondence, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence
A typescript letter from P. Secretary, presumably James Bertram, to W.J. Holland stating that Andrew Carnegie has received Holland's note and he wants to see Holland when he is on his way.
(James Bertram to W.J. Holland, February 16, 1911)
(James Bertram to W.J. Holland, February 16, 1911)
Bertram, James, 1872-1934--Correspondence, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919, Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, 1830-1916, Austria--Kings and rulers, Dinosaurs, Diplodocus
A typescript letter presumably from James Bertram to W. J. Holland, Director of Carnegie Museums, regarding a missing portrait of Emperor Francis Josef. Bertram asks Holland as he visits Vienna to ""set up the diplodocus there"", if he recollects the portrait of the Emperor and asks him if it was framed and what the size of it was. The portrait (photograph) was a gift to Andrew Carnegie. Corrections in ink.
(J.B. to Dr. Holland, December 13, 1909)
(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.
(J.J. Jusserand to W.J. Holland, June 5, 1907)
(J.J. Jusserand to W.J. Holland, June 5, 1907)
Jusserand, J. J. (Jean Jules), 1855-1932--Correspondence, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence, Diplodocus, Dinosaurs--Models
Typescript letter (copy). The French ambassador to the United States, J.J. Jusserand, writes to W.J. Holland confirming the acceptance, by French President Fallie?res, of Andrew Carnegie's gift of a Diplodocus reproduction to the Muse?um national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. He instructs Holland to deal directly with the museum's director concerning the installation.
One should not speak before the nurse
One should not speak before the nurse
Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence, French drama--20th century--Translations into English
A copy of the French play One should not speak before the nurse, sent to Andrew Carnegie by William Jacob Holland.
(Unknown correspondent to W.J. Holland, March 6, 1912)
(Unknown correspondent to W.J. Holland, March 6, 1912)
Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919, Douglass, Earl, b. 1862, Carnegie Institute, Carnegie Museum, Dinosaurs--Utah, Paleontological excavations--Utah, Paleontologists--United States
A unsigned typescript letter presumably from an unidentified official of Carnegie Institute to William Jacob Holland. The author of the letter light-heartedly reprimands Holland for allowing an underling to send Carnegie a lengthy handwritten letter, most likely referring to paleontologist Earl Douglass's letter of the 27th concerning the Utah dinosaur quarry. Marked in pencil ""Carnegie Institute"".
(W.G. Chambers to W.J. Holland, March 31, 1913)
(W.G. Chambers to W.J. Holland, March 31, 1913)
Chambers, Will Grant, 1867-1949--Correspondence, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence, Carnegie Museum, University of Pittsburgh, Nature study, Natural history museums--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Universities and colleges--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
An unsigned copy of a typescript letter written in simplified spelling by Will Chambers, Dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Education, to William Holland thanking him for the all the assistance the Carnegie Museum has given the University in their nature study work during the present year.
(William J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, December 12, 1900)
(William J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, December 12, 1900)
Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Carnegie Music Hall, Contests, Children
A typescript letter from W.J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie in which Holland asks Carnegie to write a few words to be read during festivities at the Music Hall for children who participated in an essay-writing contest.
(William J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, January 31, 1903)
(William J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, January 31, 1903)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Dinosaurs--Models--Design and construction, Diplodocus, Carnegie Museum, Natural history museums--Collection management--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, British Museum, Canis, Fossil, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence
Typescript letter from Carnegie Museum director W.J. Holland to Carnegie, noting receipt of a letter from the director of the British Museum thanking Carnegie for his offer of a reproduction of Diplodocus, and he comments on the technical process of making the molds and the cost of doing so. Similar gifts might be made to other European governments, on condition that they reciprocate with models for the Carnegie Museum. He is also sending Carnegie, under separate cover, a paper on fossil dogs.
(William J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, June 27, 1903)
(William J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, June 27, 1903)
Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Paleontology--Private collections--Belgium--Brussels, Paleontology--Europe, Carnegie Museum
Typescript letter from Carnegie Museum director W.J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, informing Carnegie that the Baron de Bayet has accepted the offer to purchase his European paleontology collection, and Holland will sail to Brussels on July 8 in order to inventory the collection and arrange for its shipment to Pittsburgh. He has also written to Professor Kerr at the University of Glasgow stating that the Museum will accept a specimen of Lepidosiren and send something in exchange.
(William J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, May 9, 1903)
(William J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, May 9, 1903)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Diplodocus, Dinosaurs--Models--Design and construction, Paleontology--Europe, Paleontology--Private collections--Belgium--Brussels, Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910, Museum of Zoology (Cambridge, England), Carnegie Museum, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence
Typescript letter (carbon copy). Museum director Holland describes the ongoing restoration of the Diplodocus specimen. He then speaks of a large collection of European fossils collected by Bayet of Brussels, now offered for sale. Both the Imperial Museum in St. Petersburg and the British Museum are interested in it, as is the Zoological Museum at Cambridge. Alexander Agassiz is coming to Pittsburgh to see Holland to propose that the two museums purchase the collection jointly, for $25,000. However, as no American museum has such a collection of European paleontology. Holland appeals to Carnegie to provide funding for the purchase, which would supplement the Museum's American collection.
(William J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, September 28, 1903)
(William J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, September 28, 1903)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Carnegie Museum, Fishes, Fossil, Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873, Hatcher, J. B. (John Bell), 1861-1904, Stanton, T. W. (Timothy William), b. 1860, Paleontology--Judith River Formation, Geological Survey (U.S.), Diplodocus, Okapi, Muse?e royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique, Le?opold II, King of the Belgians, 1835-1909, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence
Typescript letter. Carnegie Museum director Holland reports to Carnegie that the extension of the Museum building will probably begin soon. The Bayet paleontology collection has arrived. It contains a number of fish species new to science, and therefore complements the earlier work of Louis Agassiz. Paleontological explorations in the western U.S., specifically the Judith River Formation, led by John Hatcher, on loan to the U.S. Geological Survey which paid for the expedition, and a Mr. Stanton, who opposed Hatcher's scientific views, were successful, and the material collected will come to Carnegie Museum. Some remarkable finds there, among them a large teleosaur, remain unidentified. Holland will act upon Carnegie's suggestion to have reproductions made of the museum's Diplodocus to be used as gifts. He then tells Carnegie that while in Brussels he learned that the Museum of the Congo Free State there has Okapi specimens; as there are none of these in the U.S., he urges Carnegie to talk with the Belgian king (Le?opold II) to obtain an Okapi, as well as a model of Iguanodon bernissartensis (a large lizard) in exchange for the gift of a Diplodocus. Holland relates an amusing exchange with the king about the possibility of obtaining insect specimens from the Congo Free State.
(W.J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie (?), December 15, 1913)
(W.J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie (?), December 15, 1913)
Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Diplodocus, Dinosaurs--Models, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Spain), Natural history museums--Spain--Madrid, Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, 1886-1941--Political and social views, Spain--Kings and rulers
A typescript letter from William Holland to Andrew Carnegie discussing Holland's recent trip to Spain to install a gift diplodocus model. Holland talks at length about his visit with King Alfonso XIII and the opinions the King expressed about peace and disarmament, education, and the growth of commerce between Spain and the United States. The final page (?) of the letter is missing so there is no signature.
(W.J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, April 12, 1900)
(W.J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, April 12, 1900)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Herring, John L., Carnegie Museum, Museum exhibits--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Museums--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence
A typescript letter from William Jacob Holland to Andrew Carnegie regarding a gift to Carnegie Museum of a length of ""socket rail"" by John L. Herring of Derry Station, Pa.
(W.J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, April 2, 1913)
(W.J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, April 2, 1913)
Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Dinosaurs, Paleontological excavations--United States, Carnegie Museum, Natural history museums--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Spelling reform
A signed typescript letter from William Holland to Andrew Carnegie informing him about the recent Carnegie Museum expedition discovery of a dinosaur skull with an intact fossil eye. Holland also encloses, for Carnegie's reading pleasure, a copy of a recent letter he received which was written in simplified spelling.
(W.J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, April 23, 1900)
(W.J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, April 23, 1900)
Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Numismatic collections, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Coin collections, Carnegie Museum--Numismatic collections, Carnegie Museum--Coin collections, Coins, Numismatics, Carnegie Museum-
A typescript letter from W. J. Holland, Director of Carnegie Museum, to Andrew Carnegie expressing thanks for donating his coin collection to the museum. This collection included coins from Mr. Carnegie's trip around the world. Mr. Holland also asks Mr. Carnegie if he will see him for half an hour when he comes to New York to discuss some ""little"" matters with him.
(W.J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, April 30, 1910)
(W.J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, April 30, 1910)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Douglass, Earl, b. 1862, Paleontology--Green River Watershed (Wyo.-Utah), Dinosaurs--Green River Watershed (Wyo.-Utah), Carnegie Museum, Diplodocus, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Travel--Russia--Saint Petersburg, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence
Typescript letter. W.J. Holland describes the work of Earl Douglass in the Green River area of Utah, where large dinosaur specimens are being excavated. The Diplodocus reproduction for the Russians has been finished and scheduled for shipment. Holland regrets that he may have to travel to St. Petersburg to supervise the installation, as he is getting tired of the ""old Dip.""
(W.J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, August 14, 1912)
(W.J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, August 14, 1912)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Museo de La Plata, Natural history museums--Argentina--La Plata, Argentina, Diplodocus, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence
A typescript letter from William Jacob Holland to Andrew Carnegie in which Holland presents the reasons why he would prefer not to travel to Argentina to install the diplodocus carnegii replica at that country's national museum at La Plata.