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    Museum: Oklahoma Territorial Museum Gallery #1: Carnegie Library Category Andrew Carnegie was born in the year 1835 in Scotland. When he grew up he worked in a company and then his family decided to move to the US. Andrew started his career as railroad clerk. He built the largest industrial enterprise. Later Andrew decided that he could sell his company to a man named JP Morgan in 1901. May 20,1903 he opened his library. Carnegie used the library for many uses such as: parties,social events, children

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    of The Carnegie Library in the early nineteen hundreds. With the creation of this library, the builders not only set out to improve the educational qualities of Bozeman's downtown, but it sought to create a hub for historical qualities in Bozeman, as well as around the world. This historical connection lead the builders all the way to the height of the Greek Empire. The historical connections, both stylistically and contextually, lead my group to do a comparison between The Carnegie Library in

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    Andrew Carnegie : A Hero

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    family that immigrated to America in 1848, Carnegie began working almost immediately. His brilliance and intelligence brought him local fame and eventually brought the attention of the general superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad and he was hired to work for the Railroad company. Through years of working in the Railroads, he was able to become highly successful and managed to become one of the wealthiest men of his time. Towards the end of his life, Carnegie began donating most of his money to several

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    Andrew Carnegie earned millions in America's steel industry and he made great contributions to social causes such as public libraries, education and international peace. He believed very strongly in the value of education. One of the first donations that he made was a very generous donation of $10 million to begin a pension for teachers, and $125 million more for the development of education. He also remembered that there was a very generous man who had allowed him to access his library as a child

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    authors like me use “place” in our work. The building where the panel was held — the Carnegie Library, a gleaming Beaux-Arts structure gifted to the city a century ago by the industrialist Andrew Carnegie — has become the latest sign of Washington’s gentrifying times: Apple recently released plans to convert the building, long a civic space, into a lavish retail store. The city itself — like the Carnegie Library — is getting a brand-new operating system. In the latest update, residents are whiter

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    Although some of these criticisms are well founded, men like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller were, in fact, Captains of Industry because they employed millions and created new ways of doing business. Before all these industrialists can along, America was just another country that had little significance to the world

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    it was of one of my heroes Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie, while being known as a greedy capitalist robber baron, also redeemed himself later in life by setting up a network of over 3000 libraries across the US, England and Scotland Carnegie libraries were everywhere. The ideas were simple. You would give people the hand up not the hand down that comes with education. Now being marketing guy, I wanted to be Carnegie one better. And my goal was to be Carnegie with a

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    Andrew Carnegie November 25, 1835 a captain of Industry was born. In Dunfermline, Scotland Andrew Carnegie lived and moved to Pennsylvania 13 years later. He grew up to become a very well known man specifically for his impact in the steel industry. His conditions for his workers were as well as he thought possible even though at times it was dangerous. After Andrew amassed a fortune in steel he became a philanthropist. After giving his fortune away, you can tell he was a Captain of Industry

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    Imagine having all the money you want and still having a ton left over. Andrew Carnegie was a poor boy who ended up becoming the richest man in america during 1901. He worked himself up in the Pennsylvania Railroad company and would have been successful there but he was unclear on what he wanted to do. So he decided to move to New York City where he met Henry Bessemer. Bessemer taught him how to make steel, so then Carnegie moved back to Pittsburg and set up a steel mill. There he became a steel king

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    Andrew Carnegie never wanted to move to America; with tears he reluctantly walked on the boat and said goodbye his Uncle Lauder and his cousin Dod, and started the 4,000 mile journey to the land of the free, petrified of what was to come. The trip and the new land would bring new opportunities that he would impact his life forever. Carnegie by Peter Krass is one of the best historical books that accurately portrays the events that have occurred over Carnegie’s life. Classrooms all across the United

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