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the architecture and history of Scotlands Carnegie Libraries. If you are interested in libraries and old buildings youll find plenty here to appeal to you. There are pictures and descriptions of libraries from all over Scotland, from the Orkney Islan ...
http://www.scotcities.com/carnegie/
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- Carnegie Libraries
Many Americans first entered the worlds of information and imagination offered by reading when they walked through the front doors of a Carnegie library. One of 19thcentury industrialist Andrew Carnegie’s many philanthropies, these libraries entertai ...
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/50carnegie/50carnegie.htm
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- Thew Illinois Carnegie Libraries
The Illinois Historic Preservation Agency operates over 60 historic sites and memorials. The Agency also administers the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. The library is the state’s chief historical and genealogical research facility t ...
http://www.state.il.us/hpa/ps/carnegielibraries.htm
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- Public Buildings
The Carnegie public library in Fairfield, Iowa, built in 1893 in the popular Richardson Romanesque style. As Theodore Jones recounts in his book, The Carnegie Library in Parsons, Kansas was one of 63 Carnegie funded libraries built in Kansas during ...
http://www.plannersweb.com/publicbldgs/PB-fr-library.html
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- The Carnegie Libraries of California
Carnegie and the Carnegie Corporation provided funding for 1,681 public library buildings in 1,412 U.S. communities between 1889 and 1923. This philanthropy had a great impact on the growth of public library development in the United States. Free pub ...
http://www.carnegie-libraries.org/
| | - The Carnegies Library Legacy
From the bustling commerce of downtown, to the treelined parks of our neighborhoods, to the sprawling beauty of our suburbs, nobody covers life in the Pittsburgh region like the PostGazette. For over 200 years, weve been providing the people of Pitts ...
http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/20030302carnegie2.asp
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- Carnegie Public Library Trinidad Colorado
Built in 1904,the library board applied for and received a $15,000 donation from Andrew Carnegie to build a library. Andrew Carnegie was a prominent industrialist and railroad benefactor. He was also instrumental in the building of 1,679 public libra ...
http://www.trinidadco.com/walkingtour/carnegie.asp
| | - The Clevelands Carnegie Libraries
Our mission to be the best urban library system in the country by providing access to the worldwide information that people and organizations need in a timely, convenient, and equitable manner. The Peoples University is to be the learning place for a ...
http://www.cpl.org/?q=node/2388
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- The Four Carnegie Libraries
The Santa Cruz Public Libraries is a CityCounty library system providing library services to Santa Cruz County, California. Its ten branch libraries and bookmobile serve all of Santa Cruz County with the exception of the City of Watsonville, which ma ...
http://www.santacruzpl.org/history/libsch/sccarn.shtml
| | - Floridas Carnegie Libraries
Andrew Carnegie can be considered the patron saint or the Johnny Appleseed of American public libraries. Between 1886 and 1918, Carnegie gave more than $56 million to build 1,697 public libraries in 1,412 American communities. In Florida his gift t ...
http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/services/magazine/00summer/carnegie.cfm
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