The legacy collections in our oral history archive reflect the Oral History Research Office’s (OHRO) focus on “great men” in business history and philanthropy in its early years. From the Carnegie Corporation of New York to the Ford Motor Company to McGraw Hill publishers, interviewing the elite while also drawing on narrators throughout the […]
Category: Carnegie Corporation of New York Collection
Tips for researchers’ first time in the archives: photos and scanning
Carrie Smith, Lecturer at Cardiff University, recently posted a thread on Twitter with basic advice for first-time archives researchers. The thread has tips that work well for our own RBML users — even for our more regular visitors. […]
Collection Highlight | Meddlesome Practices: Carnegie Corporation of New York Oral History Collection
by Karen Wang, Columbia University Libraries Intern What does philanthropy have to do with business? Andrew Carnegie, magnate of the U.S. steel industry, built his empire from humble beginnings with business acumen and insider trading (commonplace and legal at the time). Carnegie is also known for his philanthropy and his philosophy “The Gospel of […]
Collection highlight | Vartan Gregorian (1934-2021) and the Carnegie Corporation Digital Archive
Noting the passing of Vartan Gregorian — philanthropist, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and former New York Public Library President — this 2000 interview with NPR’s Scott Simon is but one of many highlights from the Carnegie Corporation Digital Archive. Hear more from the oral history interview with Gregorian. […]
News from the RBML’s Archivists and Collections Management Specialists | December 2020
Kevin Schlottmann, RBML’s Head Archivist, shares these updates about finding aids that our archivist and collections management specialists have stewarded over the past month and made available for RBML researchers – a season of bounty even in a global pandemics! Newly digitized oral history collections Gail Mary Killian and Stephen Desroches sound recordings, 1970-2003 “The […]