Free To The People, Pittsburgh, PA (Carnegie Library) – Antique Wall Art
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This rare historic image captures Free To The People, Pittsburgh, PA (Carnegie Library) in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Free To The People, Pittsburgh, PA (Carnegie Library)
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The words "Free to the People" carved over the entrance mark this as one of the Carnegie libraries, the public reading rooms that Andrew Carnegie funded across the United States and abroad in the early twentieth century. Carnegie, a steel magnate who had grown up poor in Scotland, believed that free access to books could give ordinary working people the education he had lacked. Pittsburgh, his hometown's industrial neighbor and the center of his steel empire, received some of the earliest and largest of these gifts. The inscription on the facade expresses that philanthropic idea directly, and it is worth noticing how the building's stone and classical design were meant to make a public library feel as permanent as a bank or courthouse.
| Notes | By takomabibelot, Flickr.com, Creative Commons |
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| Original scan | 3,208 × 4,152 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 2139542438_e4a7bf4774_o Free To The People (Pittsburgh, PA) takomabibelot |
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