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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79015107
Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist, were given to the Library of Congress in 1932, 1954, 1959, and 1962 by Louise Whitfield Carnegie, Margaret Carnegie Miller, Florence Anderson, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Additions were purchased in 1946 and 1969, and gifts were received in 1981, 1983, and 1996.
The Carnegie Papers were processed in 1984. The collection was revised and expanded in 1985, and the finding was revised in 2009.
In 1964 the Library published
Some photographs have been transferred to the Library's Prints and Photographs Division where they are identified as part of these papers.
Copyright in the unpublished writings of Andrew Carnegie in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.
The Carnegie Papers are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Andrew Carnegie Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) include family records, correspondence, letterbooks, reports, memoranda, financial records, scrapbooks, speeches, articles, and books, and printed matter and related material. The papers span the years 1803-1935, with the bulk of the material from 1890 to 1919. The collection is organized in six series: General Correspondence, Speeches and Writings File, Miscellany , Scrapbooks, Carnegie Corporation and Related papers, and Addition.
The collection relates to all aspects of Carnegie's life, but the emphasis is on business and charitable activities. The principal series, General Correspondence, consists of letters to and from Carnegie with attached and related papers. Although the main focus is on steel manufacturing, a considerable portion of the correspondence concerns corporations, investments, and labor issues. Peace, arbitration, anti-imperialism, the Isthmian Canal, education, African Americans, and Scottish-American matters are other subjects prominently represented, and there are numerous files on the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute of Washington, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
An extensive Carnegie Corporation file contains correspondence, letterbooks, financial papers, and reports and memoranda concerning the philanthropic activities of the corporation. Letterbooks relating to philanthropies prior to the establishment of the corporation are included in this file.
Drafts and printed copies of Carnegie's writings and addresses are contained in a Speeches and Writings File.
Carnegie corresponded with a great many of the leading figures of his time, both in this country and abroad. They include John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton; Arthur James Balfour, Earl of Balfour; John Barrett; James P. Bertram; William Jennings Bryan; James Bryce, Viscount Bryce; Nicholas Murray Butler; Joseph Hodges Choate; Samuel Harden Church; Samuel Langhorne Clemens; Grover Cleveland; W. Evans Darby; Frank Nelson Doubleday; Theodore W. Dwight; Charles William Eliot; Robert Erskine Ely; Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet, baron d'Estournelle de Constant; Robert A. Franks; Henry Clay Frick; Richard Watson Gilder; Daniel Coit Gilman; W. E. Gladstone; Edward Grey, Viscount Grey of Fallodon; Edward Everett Hale; William Vernon Harcourt; John Hay; Abram S. Hewitt; Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson; Robert Green Ingersoll; Robert Underwood Johnson; Philander C. Knox; George Lauder, Sr.; George Lauder, Jr.; David Lloyd George; Henry Cabot Lodge; Francis T. F. Lovejoy; Seth Low; and Frederick H. Lynch.
Still other correspondents are Theodore Marburg; S. S. McClure; Nelson Appleton Miles; Thomas N. Miller; J. Pierpont Morgan; John Morley; Simon Newcomb; Walter Hines Page; Alton Brooks Parker; George Foster Peabody; Henry Phipps; Henry S. Pritchett; Whitelaw Reid; John D. Rockefeller; Theodore Roosevelt; Elihu Root; John Ross; Carl Schurz; Charles M. Schwab; James Brown Scott; William H. Short; Goldwin Smith; James Carnegie, Earl of Southesk; Herbert Spencer; Hermann Speck von Sternberg; Oscar S. Straus; James Moore Swank; William H. Taft; Charles L. Taylor; J. Edgar Thomson; Charlemagne Tower; Joseph P. Tumulty; Booker T. Washington; Andrew Dickson White; Henry White; Horace White; Woodrow Wilson; and Robert Simpson Woodward.
The collection is arranged in six series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79015107
Letters sent and received and attached and related reports, memoranda, speeches, financial papers, family papers and records, citations, newspaper clippings, and printed matter.
Arranged chronologically.
Drafts and printed copies of Carnegie's speeches, articles, books, statements, interviews, and other writings.
Arranged by type of material and thereunder chronologically.
Maps, reports, biographical data, photographs, subject matter, and miscellaneous material.
Arranged by type of material.
Newspaper clippings and printed matter.
Arranged chronologically.
Correspondence, letterbooks, reports, memoranda, financial records, and other material concerning the functions of the Carnegie Corp. and other philanthropic organizations.
Correspondence for the period 1912-1919 is alphabetically arranged. Letterbooks for the period 1896-1909 are arranged chronologically.
Carnegie payments to various organizations, personal correspondence of Henry S. Pritchett, and miscellany.
Arranged by type of material.