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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, incl
Andrew Carnegie, c. 1905, National Portrait Gallery
Plaque at the Taunton Public Library in Massachusetts
The first Carnegie library, in Dunfermline, Scotland
Carnegie Free Library of Braddock in Braddock, Pennsylvania, was the first Carnegie Library in the United States
James Bertram was the personal secretary of Andrew Carnegie, the industrialist and philanthropist, from 1897 to 1914. Bertram also served the Carnegie Corporation of New York from its inception in 191
Carnegie library
…not by municipalities, but by Carnegie Steel, which built them, maintained them, and delivered coal for their heating systems. In 1897, Carnegie hired James Bertram as his personal assistant. Bertram was responsible for fielding requests from municipalities for funds and overseeing the dispensing of grants for…
Sioux City Carnegie Library. Opened in 1913, the library cost $75,000. It was designed by library specialist Edward Lippincott Tilton
Carnegie Library, Coshocton, Ohio Completed in 1904, the library cost $17,000 and has a portico