Carnegie Mellon University - Andrew Carnegie Online Archives

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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 W.J. Holland, January 30, 1912)
(Andrew Carnegie to W.J. Holland, January 30, 1912)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence, Carnegie Museum, Museum exhibits, Natural history museums--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Diplodocus, Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, 1886-1941, Dinosaurs--Utah, Paleontological excavations--Utah, Spain, Argentina
An unsigned typescript letter from Andrew Carnegie to William Jacob Holland discussing the diplodocus carnegii replicas to be presented as gifts to Spain and Argentina and the discovery in Utah by Carnegie Museum paleontologists of what, according to Holland's description, was the largest and most complete dinosaur to be found to date in the United States.
(Charles Walcott to Andrew Carnegie, December 30, 1910)
(Charles Walcott to Andrew Carnegie, December 30, 1910)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932, Smithsonian Institution, Carnegie Museum, Paleontological excavations--Utah, Dinosaurs--Utah, Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927--Correspondence
A typescript letter from Charles Doolittle Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to Andrew Carnegie, signed, on Smithsonian Institution letterhead. Walcott discusses a recent visit to the Carnegie Museum and William Jacob Holland's description of the dinosaur quarry in Utah.
(Earl Douglass to Andrew Carnegie, February 27, 1912)
(Earl Douglass to Andrew Carnegie, February 27, 1912)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Carnegie Museum, Dinosaurs--Utah, Paleontology, Paleontologists--United States, Douglass, Earl, b. 1862--Correspondence
A handwritten letter from paleontologist Earl Douglass to Andrew Carnegie concerning his work for the Carnegie Museum in the Utah dinosaur quarries. The verso of the last page of the letter contains an inscription and shorthand notation in pencil.
(W.J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, January 29, 1912)
(W.J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, January 29, 1912)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Diplodocus, Museum exhibits, Carnegie Museum, Natural history museums--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Spain, Argentina, Paleontological excavations--Utah, Fossils, Dinosaurs--Utah, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence
A typescript letter from William Jacob Holland to Andrew Carnegie discussing the creation of a replica of the diplodocus carnegii to be given to the King of Spain. Holland goes on to describe a recent discovery at Carnegie Museum's Utah quarry, ""the most complete as well as the largest specimen of a dinosaur yet discovered in America."" On Carnegie Museum letterhead.
(W.J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, November 2, 1910)
(W.J. Holland to Andrew Carnegie, November 2, 1910)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Carnegie Museum, Dinosaurs--Utah, Uinta Mountains (Utah and Wyo.), Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence
A handwritten letter from William Jacob Holland to Andrew Carnegie relating the progress of transporting the dinosaur remains from the Unitah Mountains in Utah. On Uintah Railway Company letterhead.