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Guide to researching history of New York City Buildings It is quite common for a home owner to be curious about a new building that they have acquired or plan to acquire. Additionally several people tend to research about the building they are working or living in. Some people also often set off on a quest to gain knowledge about other buildings and monuments. The main areas of interest of such people is to find more information about the previous owners and more details about the history of the

joining Rose Associates. Fred was also extremely active in New York City’s non-profit community, serving as Vice-Chair of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and a Trustee of Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, Rockefeller University, the New York Public Library, and the New York Philharmonic (list not complete). He was also well known as a philanthropist, who according to his obituary in the New York Time “gave away more than $95 million” during his lifetime.

The article, “What Will Become of the Library” by Michael Agresta evolve around the idea of libraries in the digital world. Libraries throughout the countries are changing with time and technology. This article began by saying the libraries throughout the country and as well as abroad, government has stop/ lowered their funding for public libraries. In United Kingdom alone, more than 200 public libraries were shuttered. Also, some libraries are removing their heavy stacks of books/ paper and replacing

The public library movement in America obtained energy in the most recent years of the nineteenth century, supported by a mixture of political, social, financial, and scholarly powers. Fundamental necessities are taken care of and mechanical bases set up, groups swung to setting up those organizations that would profit the citizen while distinguishing their towns as lively and growing. The library was advanced as a proceeding means of methods for good training that could avert, or possibly decrease

United States. When steam machinery for weaving came into use, Carnegie’s father sold his looms and household goods, sailing to America with his wife and two sons. At this time, Andrew was twelve, and his brother, Thomas, was five. Arriving into New York on August

architectural styles and use of public space throughout Pratt Institute expresses both the function of the university and its relation to Clinton Hill and to changes occurring in New York City. Pratt’s original campus consisted of three brick Romanesque Revival styled buildings that were built adjacent to one another, the Main Building, the East Hall Building, and the Student Union, and Pratt Institute Library, which along with the Rose Garden, were available for public usage. Characterized by its extravagant

The Education System in the United States Diane Ravitch, Senior Research Scholar at New York University, has written several books and hundreds of articles pertaining to the education system in the United States. In one of her articles printed by Education Week, she says that "most fourth-graders who live in U.S. cities can't read and understand a simple children's book, and most eighth-graders can't use arithmetic to solve a practical problem." This is a reason behind testing schools and its

graphic design was not widely taught to young people but this didn’t stop Michael. With his love of his love of art, music, and drawing Bierut’s first began designing album covers. Wanted to learn more Michael took to the library a poured over the only two design books the library had at the time. At this point he was hooked on graphic design he then went on to study graphic design at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. During his time at University of

related to their new found freedom. Following the post-Civil War Reconstruction period, white supremacy resurfaced in the South (A&E Television, 2015). Beginning in the early 1900s through 1970 there was a mass exodus of African American 's from the South to the North in America. Although some African American 's were known to have moved from the South as early as 1850, there were two major waves during the 1900s (A&E, 2015; Gates, Jr., 2013). The Great Migration brought new opportunities to

Andrew Carnegie Essay written by aliciareagan@neo.tamu.edu A man of Scotland, a distinguished citizen of the United States, and a philanthropist devoted to the betterment of the world around him, Andrew Carnegie became famous at the turn of the twentieth century and became a real life rags to riches story. Born in Dunfermline, Scotland, on November 25, 1835, Andrew Carnegie entered the world in poverty. The son of a hand weaver, Carnegie received his only formal education during the short time between