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If you go to the Braddock Carnegie Library this week, you won’t have to speak in hushed tones; there’s a party going on. The ...
steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, who started building libraries in the United States in the 1880s. By the Great Depression, Carnegie and his foundation had helped fund more than 2,500 libraries in the ...
The Braddock Carnegie Library was founded by steel magnate Andrew Carnegie for his workers in 1889 and remains a National Historic Landmark. Since its closing and almost demolition in 1974 ...
She not only shares this message from Andrew Carnegie, Bakker works to bring his passion for libraries to as many Nashvillians as possible through the Nashville Public Library Foundation.
"In the words of Andrew Carnegie, libraries are ‘cradles of democracy’ that stand as ‘temples of knowledge,’" said Richardson. "In honor of our founder and the enduring and crucial ...
PARIS, Ky. (LEX 18) — At the turn of the 19th century, industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie donated more than $40 million to build public libraries across the country. To receive an ...