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Carnegie denied : communities rejecting Carnegie Library construction grants, 1898-1925

Author: Robert Sidney Martin
Publisher: Westport, Ct. : Greenwood Press, 1993.
Series: Beta Phi Mu monograph, no. 3
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Named Person: Andrew Carnegie
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Sidney Martin
ISBN: 0313286094 9780313286094
OCLC Number: 26263831
Description: xiii, 188 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: The founding of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh / Rosemary Ruhig DuMont -- Aborted library projects in Pennsylvania : community reactions to library offers in Carnegie's native state / Pamela Spence Richards -- The Carnegie question and the public library movement in progressive era New York / Frederick J. Stielow and James Corsaro -- Women's club culture and the failure of library development in Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio / Daniel F. Ring -- No palace for the people : Carnegie rejections in Indiana / John Mark Tucker -- Mistaken pride, unseasonable rush : rejected Carnegie grants in Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska / Robert Sidney Martin ... [et al.] -- Poverty of mind and lack of municipal spirit : rejection of Carnegie Public Library building grants by seven southern communities / Donald G. Davis, Jr. and Ronald C. Stone, Jr.
Series Title: Beta Phi Mu monograph, no. 3
Responsibility: edited by Robert Sidney Martin.

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