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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 William Holland (?), March 28, 1913)
(Andrew Carnegie (?) to William Holland (?), March 28, 1913)
Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence, Carnegie Museum, Museum finance--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Natural history museums--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence
An unsigned copy of a typescript letter presumably from Andrew Carnegie to ""Mr. President."" Though not entirely clear from the contents of the letter, it seems that someone, presumably William Holland, President of the Carnegie Museum, requested an increase in funding to expand museum operations. Carnegie denies the request not only because he feels that other projects should have higher priority but also because he is not sure that the expansion is a wise idea. A penciled signature that was probably not written by Andrew Carnegie has been added to the letter.
(Andrew Carnegie to W.J. Holland, February 5, 1912)
(Andrew Carnegie to W.J. Holland, February 5, 1912)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence, Diplodocus, Carnegie Museum, Natural history museums--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Museum exhibits, Argentina, Spain, Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, 1886-1941, China
A unsigned typescript letter from Andrew Carnegie to William Jacob Holland, written in response to Holland's letter of the 3rd. Carnegie answers in the affirmative as to whether he should continue making replicas of the Diplodocus carnegii those to be given to Argentina and Spain have been completed.
(Andrew Carnegie to W.J. Holland, January 24, 1908)
(Andrew Carnegie to W.J. Holland, January 24, 1908)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence, Carnegie Museum, Dinosaurs, Diplodocus, Pittsburgh, Pa., Muse?um national d'histoire naturelle (France), Paris (France), Natural history museums--France--Paris--Exhibitions, Spring, Skibo (Scotland)
A typescript letter from Andrew Carnegie to W.J. Holland in regards to a letter Holland sent to Carnegie dated January 22, 1908. In the letter of January 22, 1908, Holland writes about the copy of the Diplodocus (Diplodocus carnegii skeleton, located in Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) that was donated to the museum in Paris, presumably the Muse?um national d'histoire naturelle located in Paris, France. Holland states in the letter of January 22, 2008 that he has received a letter from Paris, France from the director of the museum there stating that they will be ready to receive Holland in the spring. They are having the name W. Carnegie engraved on a marble slab recognizing him as the donor. Holland assures Carnegie that he is writing to have them change the W. to A. on the slab. He asks Carnegie to let him know when he will be available to visit Paris, France in the spring for a ""pleasant formality."" Carnegie writes in response to the above mentioned letter that he is disappointed that they do not have room for the full name (presumably Carnegies name) and that he wants Holland to attend the reception in Paris in the spring and report back to him at Skibbo.
(Andrew Carnegie to W.J. Holland, January 26, 1912)
(Andrew Carnegie to W.J. Holland, January 26, 1912)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence, Rian?o, Juan, Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, 1886-1941, Diplodocus, Museum exhibits, Carnegie Museum, Natural history museums--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Argentina, Spain, Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869, Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
An unsigned typescript letter presumably from Andrew Carnegie to William Jacob Holland discussing Spanish ambassador Juan Rian?o's request for a copy of Diplodocus carnegii. Carnegie orders Holland to fulfill the request as is being done for Argentina. Also mentions a photograph of ""Grant's letter to Stanton.""
(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.
(Andrew Carnegie to W.J. Holland, May 22, 1903)
(Andrew Carnegie to W.J. Holland, May 22, 1903)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence, Carnegie Museum
Typescript letter (carbon copy), in which Andrew Carnegie gives W.J. Holland permission to buy the European paleontology collection for Carnegie Museum.
(Andrew Carnegie to W.J. Holland, November 21, 1911)
(Andrew Carnegie to W.J. Holland, November 21, 1911)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence, Diplodocus, Dinosaurs, Carnegie Museum, Argentina, Sa?enz Pen?a, Roque, 1851-1914, Naon, Romolo S., Brazil, Pittsburgh (Pa.)
A typescript letter presumably from Andrew Carnegie to William J. Holland concerning the donation of a copy of a Diplodocus (Diplodocus carnegii skeleton, located in Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) to Argentina. In the letter Carnegie states that he received a note from the president of Argentina (Sa?enz Pen?a), via the ambassador of Argentina (Ro?mulo S. Naon) requesting a Diplodocus for Argentina since Carnegie recommended one for Brazil. Carnegie (erroneously) notes there are two Diplodocus in Pittsburg and wonders if they might send the first one to Argentina, but he notes, ""I suppose it would be too valuable as being the original"". He asks Holland for his help in resolving this request by Argentina.
(Andrew Carnegie to W.J. Holland, November 24, 1911)
(Andrew Carnegie to W.J. Holland, November 24, 1911)
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence, Diplodocus, Dinosaurs, Carnegie Museum, Argentina, Sa?enz Pen?a, Roque, 1851-1914, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
A typescript letter from Andrew Carnegie to William J. Holland concerning the donation of a copy of a Diplodocus (Diplodocus carnegii skeleton, located in Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) to Argentina. Carnegie tells Holland that he should get the (replica) of the Diplodocus ready for Argentina and to ship it to President Saenz-Pena in Buenos Aires.
Carnegie Museum correspondence
Carnegie Museum correspondence
Franks, Robert A.--Correspondence, Diplodocus, Dinosaurs--Transportation, Argentina, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Travel costs, Spain, Carnegie Museum, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence
A document describing: a letter from William Jacob Holland to Robert A. Franks regarding travel expenses for Holland's trip to Buenos Aires for the delivery and installation of the Diplodocus carnegii replica donated to the Argentine government; and a memo from Franks on stated expenses. Affixed to sheet is a cutting from a piece of correspondence requesting that the recipient ""honor the calls of (Holland) ... for sums as needed to the extent of Fifteen hundred dollars, to pay for work on replica of Diplodocus for Spain and two extra ones to be held in reserve.""
(James Bertram (?) to W.J. Holland, January 8, 1904)
(James Bertram (?) to W.J. Holland, January 8, 1904)
Bertram, James, 1872-1934--Correspondence, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932--Correspondence, Carnegie Museum, Winchell, Mrs., Museums--Acquisitions--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
A typescript letter presumably from James Bertram, Andrew Carnegie's personal secretary, to William Holland, Director of the Carnegie Museum, discussing items that a Mrs. Winchell would like to donate to the museum's collection. Bertram asks Holland to review Mrs. Winchell's items and bring them to Mr. Carnegie's attention if Holland feels they are worthy of acquisition.
(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.
(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, 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, 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 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.""