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Andrew Carnegie's philanthropy. Puck magazine cartoon by Louis Dalrymple, 1903. Carnegie spent his last years as a philanthropist. From 1901 forward, public attention ...
Carnegie portrait (detail) in the National Portrait Gallery [1] "Wealth", [2] more commonly known as "The Gospel of Wealth", [3] is an essay written by Andrew Carnegie in June [4] of 1889 [5] that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.
A Carnegie library is a library built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. A total of 2,509 Carnegie libraries were built between 1883 and 1929, including some belonging to public and university library systems.
At the beginning of the 20th Century, Andrew Carnegie was a philanthropist who gave away nearly $350 million — about 90 percent of a fortune he had acquired during the 19th century through ...
Inderjeet Parmar, Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. Patricia L Rosenfield, A world of giving: Carnegie Corporation of New York-- a Century of International Philanthropy. New York: PublicAffairs, 2014.
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) was the most influential leader of philanthropy on a national (rather than local) scale. After selling his giant steel company in the 1890s he devoted himself to establishing philanthropic organizations, and making direct contributions to many educational cultural and research institutions.
Andrew Carnegie. The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, also known as Carnegie Hero Fund, was established to recognize persons who perform extraordinary acts of heroism in civilian life in the United States and Canada, and to provide financial assistance for those disabled and the dependents of those killed saving or attempting to save others.
Andrew Carnegie's philanthropy. Puck magazine cartoon by Louis Dalrymple, 1903. Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) was the most influential leader of philanthropy on a national (rather than local) scale. After selling his steel company in 1901 he devoted himself to establishing philanthropic organizations and to making direct contributions to many ...