Today in history
Subtitle: March 12
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Subjects: Industrialists; Biography; Philanthropists
Other titles: March 12
Description: Presents information on Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist. On March 12, 1901 Carnegie offered New York City over five million dollars for the construction of sixty-five branch libraries. Carnegie's fortune eventually would establish many more libraries and charitable foundations.
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Illustrated by digitized items from the American Memory historic collections compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.

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