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

Title: Carnegie denied : communities rejecting Carnegie Library construction grants, 1898-1925 / edited by Robert Sidney Martin.
Publication: Westport, Ct. : Greenwood Press, 1993.

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Additional Authors

Martin, Robert Sidney.

Description

xiii, 188 pages; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Beta Phi Mu monograph, 1041-2751 ; no. 3

Uniform Title

Beta Phi Mu monograph ; no. 3.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 [and others] -- 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.

ISBN

0313286094
9780313286094

LCCN

92025741

OCLC

ocm26263831
26263831
SCSB-2052036

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library