Carnegie Libraries
Carnegie library ... For other uses, see Carnegie Library (disambiguation). A Carnegie library is a library built with money donated by Scottish-American ...
List of Carnegie libraries in Missouri - Wikipedia
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Missouri provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Missouri, where 33 public ...
Andrew Carnegie and the St. Louis Public Library
The St. Louis Public Library was going through tremendous growth, industrialist Andrew Carnegie was in the midst of one of the largest acts of private ...
Carnegie Libraries: The Future Made Bright (Teaching with Historic ...
One of 19th-century industrialist Andrew Carnegie's many philanthropies, these libraries entertained and educated millions. Between 1886 and 1919, Carnegie's ...
Carnegie funded the building of 2,509 "Carnegie Libraries" worldwide between 1883 and 1929. Of those, 1,795 were in the United States: 1,687 public libraries ...
How Andrew Carnegie Turned His Fortune Into A Library Legacy
At the start of the 20th century, the ruthless, self-made steel industrialist paid $60 million for 1689 public libraries to be built in ...
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh empowers people to transform their lives through life-long learning, digital literacy and connections to others.
Introduction - Carnegie Libraries: Topics in Chronicling America
This guide provides access to materials related to Carnegie Libraries in the Chronicling America digital collection of historic newspapers.
Welcome to the Carnegie Library - Book Riot
There are 800 Carnegie libraries still in use today as libraries. About 300 have been destroyed, and the remaining have either been repurposed ...
Our History | St. Louis Public Library
In 1901 Andrew Carnegie made a substantial gift to the St. Louis Public Library which allowed for the construction of Central Library and six neighborhood ...
Carnegie Returns to Its Roots with Millions in Grants to Public Libraries
Carnegie will give $1 million to the Brooklyn Public Library, $1.2 million to the Queens Public Library, and $1.8 million to the New York Public ...
Central Library – St. Louis Public Library
This is a beautiful Carnegie library built in 1912 and renovated in 2012. It is full of amazing woodwork, ceilings, leaded and stained glass windows, ...
Carondelet Branch Library - City of St. Louis
... Library was built in 1908 by architect Ernst Preisler. The Neoclassical building is made of Maine granite. It was partially funded by Andrew Carnegie. Back ...
Carnegie-MO-Saint Louis - library-postcards
Carnegie Libraries of St. Louis ... The sight of rows upon rows of card catalogues is rapidly disappearing from America's libraries. (Chicago's Newberry Library ...
Carnegie Libraries in Iowa Project
Home ... Between 1892 and 1917, 104 communities in Iowa sought money from Andrew Carnegie to build public libraries.1 Ultimately, only 99 communities accepted the ...
The peculiar evolution of Carnegie's Libraries - Philanthropy Daily
Inspired by benefits he enjoyed from the library, Andrew Carnegie funded the creation of over 2500 libraries around the world.
Central Public Library - City of St. Louis
Built of Maine granite, the Italian Renaissance library was constructed at a cost of $1.5 million dollars. A third of that money was a gift from Andrew Carnegie ...
Carnegie Libraries of California
The Carnegie Libraries of California web site is dedicated to preserving these treasures of history, provided by Pat & Bernie Skehan.
Carnegie began to use a formula to determine which of the many requests he would fund. Rather than endowing libraries, Carnegie required each town to contribute ...
New Support for New York City's Public Libraries from the ...
The philanthropic foundation established in 1911 by Andrew Carnegie announced today a return to its historic roots with $4 million in grants to public ...
Carnegie library
A Carnegie library is a library built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. A total of 2,509 Carnegie libraries were built between 1883 and 1929, including some belonging to public and university library systems. 1,689 were built in the United States, 660 in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 125 in Canada, and 25 others in Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Serbia, Belgium, France, the Caribbean, Mauritius, Malaysia, and Fiji.