Founder's Day Group, Carnegie Institute

October 13, 1927

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Title
Founder's Day Group, Carnegie Institute
Creator
Johnston, Ralph W.
Date
October 13, 1927
Identifier
20230504-hpicasc-0030
Source Identifier
202102.INST.MS
Description
Beginning in 1895, the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh hosted an annual Founder's Day Program, often featuring political, scientific, and educational leaders from around the world. The October 13, 1927 Founder's Day coincided with the opening of the "International Exhibition of Paintings" (now called the Carnegie International) with U.S. President Calvin Coolidge was the featured speaker. FRONT ROW: George Cretziano (Romanian Minister to the United States); Paul Claudel (writer and French Ambassador to the U.S.); James J. Davis (U.S. Secretary of Labor); Daniel Winters (President, Pittsburgh City Council); Calvin Coolidge (30th President of the United States); Mrs. Coolidge (Grace Goodhue Coolidge, First Lady of the United States); Andrew W. Mellon (49th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury); Richard B. Mellon (banker and philanthropist, brother of Andrew W. Mellon); Samuel Harden Church (President of the Carnegie Institute); and Charles H. Kline (47th Mayor of Pittsburgh). CENTER ROW: Mrs. Richard B. Mellon (Jennie King Mellon); Madame Prochnik (Gretchen Sterling James Prochnik); Mrs. Davis (Jean Rodenbaugh of Pittsburgh); Mlle. Cretziano (Jeanne Cretziano, daughter of the Minister of Romania); and Mrs. Church (Bertha Jean Rinehart Church, wife of S. H. Church). BACK ROW: Edgar Prochnik (Austria's Minister to the United States); J. R. Van Royer (Jan Herman van Roijen, Dutch Ambassador to the United States); Rev. Dr. John Ray Ewers (Pastor at East End Christian Church, Pittsburgh); David Aiken Reed (U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania); Robert Silvercruys (Counselor at the Belgium Embassy in Washington, D.C.); Otto H. Kahn (investment banker who purchased Andrew Carnegie’s NYC home); and Count Alberto Marchetti (Counselor of Italian Embassy in United States).
Type
still image
Genre
photographs
photographic prints
gelatin silver prints
Subject
Persons
Heads of state
City council members
Businesspeople
Politicians
Public officers
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933
Coolidge, Grace Goodhue, 1879-1957
Claudel, Paul, 1868-1955
Davis, James J. (James John), 1873-1947
Mellon, Andrew W. (Andrew William), 1855-1937
Church, Samuel Harden, 1858-1943
Roijen, Jan Herman van, 1905-1991
Reed, David Aiken, 1880-1953
Silvercruys, Robert, 1893-1971
Kahn, Otto H., 1867-1934
Cretziano, George
Winters, Daniel
Mellon, Richard Beatty
Kline, Charles H.
Mellon, Jennie King
Prochnik, Gretchen Sterling James
Davis, Jean Rodenbaugh
Cretziano, Jeanne
Church, Bertha Jean Rinehart
Prochnik, Edgar Leo Gustav
Ewers, John Ray
Marchetti, Alberto
Geographic Subjects
Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Source
Sarah Cordelia Mellon and Alan Magee Scaife Wedding Album, 1909 - 1927
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh
Collection
Sarah Cordelia Mellon and Alan Magee Scaife Wedding Album
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