Entrée principale:

Jones, Theodore, 1957-

Titre et auteur:

Carnegie libraries across America : a public legacy / Theodore Jones.

Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : Preservation Press ; New York : John Wiley, ©1997.

Description:

xii, 181 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-170) and index.
Andrew Carnegie: Private Fortune and Public Life -- Building a Public Library System -- The Library Program: Carnegie, Bertram, and Community Grants -- Responding to Carnegie's Library Grants -- The Architecture of Carnegie Libraries -- Life in a Carnegie Library Building -- Carnegie Libraries One Hundred Years Later.
Current Copyright Fee: GBP32.00 0.
Dust jacket.

Résumé:

Between 1893 and the early 1920's the Carnegie "free library" program endowed the construction of 1,688 public libraries in 1,419 communities across America--half of all the public libraries in the nation.

Ressources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0471144223 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780471144229 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Sujet:

Carnegie libraries United States History.
Library buildings United States History.
Bibliothèques Carnegie États-Unis Histoire.
Bibliothèques (Édifices) États-Unis Histoire.
Carnegie libraries.
Library buildings.
United States.
Carnegie libraries -- United States -- History
Library buildings -- United States -- History

Classification/genre:

History.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 132133
Cote: ID Z731.J75; ID:97-B265
Statut: Disponible