Carnegie Mellon University - Andrew Carnegie Online Archives

This booklet outlines some of the biographical details of Andrew Carnegie's life, as well as the history of the founding of the Carnegie Institute of Technology. It was produced by students in the department of printing in 1937, and penned by Arthur Wilson Tarbell.

Reprinted from Perspectives on Peace 1910-1960, published in connection with the Carnegie Endowment's fiftieth anniversary programme by Stevens and Sons, Ltd., London; The authors discuss Carnegie's outlook on peace-building, and his role in furthering the cause for an international peace.

Cover title; Reprinted from the Dunfermline Press and West of Fife Advertiser, 30th June 1928

Reprinted by Carnegie Corporation of New York from Journal of Adult Education, January 1936; The author likens Andrew Carnegie's philanthropic contributions to educational contributions and calls Carnegie an (adult) educator.

Includes a bookplate with the words, With the Compliments of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie; With illustrations; Parents and Childhood; Dunfermline and America; Pittsburgh and Work; Colonel Anderson and Books; The Telegraph Office; Railroad Service; Superintendent of the Pennsylvania; Civil War Period; Bridge-Building; The Iron Works; New York as Headquarters; Business Negotiations; The Age of Steel; Partners, Books and Travel; Coaching Trip and Marriage; Mills and the Men; The Homestead Strike; Problems of Labor; The 'Gospel of Wealth'; Educational and Pension Funds; The Peace Palace and Pittencrieff; Matthew Arnold and Others; British Political Leaders; Gladstone and Morley; Herbert Spencer and His Disciple; Blaine and Harrison; Washington Diplomacy; Hay and McKinley; Meeting the German Emperor; Bibliography; Index

A collection of quotations from the written works of Andrew Carnegie. Includes numerous photographs and "a collection of portraits of Mr. Carnegie". Includes a bibliography and index.

Robert Lester, secretary of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, makes a summary of the benefactions of Andrew Carnegie, and describes the work of the philanthropic trusts which he created.

Hendrick's second volume of his biography of Andrew Carnegie; The growth of the Carnegie domain; Fortune at flood tide; Tribulations of the "iron clad"; The elimination of Frick; The sale to Morgan; The laird of Skibo; Venezuela again -- and preferential tariffs; "For the improvement of mankind"; In the domain of pure science; "Sweetness and light"; "No. 2 East Ninety-First"; Herbert Spencer and Carnegie; A visit to the kaiser; A campaign for peace; Skibo, 1914; Letters from Morley; Shadowbrook

S.N.D. North, Editor. Contents: Foreword; Carnegie Institute and Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh; Carnegie Institution of Washington; Carnegie Hero Fund Commission; Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Carnegie Corporation of New York; Carnegie United Kingdom Trust; Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland; Carnegie Dunfermline Trust; Simplified Spelling Board; Church Peace Union; Palace of Peace at the Hauge; Central American Court of Justice; Pan American Union Building; Engineering Building; Library Buildings, Church Organs, and Colleges; Summary Statement of Gifts and Grants

Laying the foundation stone of the Dingwall Free Library; A Visit to Tain's Town Hall; Laying of memorial stone of New Public School at Kilmarnock; Opening of the Elder Free Library at Govan; Laying the foundation stone of the Waterford Free Library; Laying the foundation stone of the Limerick Free Library; Laying the memorial stone of the Carnegie Free Library at Cork; Meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute at Barrow