Cincinnati’s first nine branch libraries were funded by Andrew Carnegie, who gave millions of dollars to fund library ...

One man’s love of libraries brought more than 1,600 of them to the United States in the late 19th- and early 20th- centuries. Andrew Carnegie moved to Allegheny, Pa., from Scotland with his ...

Patrons in the reading room of the Carnegie Library of Homestead in Munhall, Pa., circa 1900. ... Andrew Carnegie gave $7,500 to Woodbine. That paid for the 1908 building itself.

With its stately Georgian Revival architecture, tall arched windows and ivy-covered brick walls, the exterior of the house in Superior, Wis., still looks like a Carnegie Library. It was one of the ...

The Lakeport Carnegie Library, opened in February 1918, exemplifies classical revival architecture and serves community needs ...

Andrew Carnegie built 1,700 public libraries. ... Pa., steel plant turned violent, leaving 10 workers and three armed strikebreaking Pinkerton guards dead. ...

Description. Docent Victoria Brien explained the history of libraries funded by donations from businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Bell Ringer Assignment ...

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 Library in Manhattan to provide English language and ...

Of the 65 Carnegie Libraries built in NYC, 53 still exist as libraries today. Located in all five boroughs, we explore Andrew Carnegie's educational gift.

Andrew Carnegie funded the construction of more than 2,500 libraries worldwide with nearly 1,700 built in the United States. Today, two of them are still standing in Nashville.

At the start of the 20th century, the ruthless, self-made steel industrialist paid $60 million for 1,689 public libraries to be built in communities around the U.S. "The man who dies rich dies in ...

Andrew Carnegie funded the construction of more than 2,500 libraries worldwide with nearly 1,700 built in the United States. Today, two of them are still standing in Nashville.