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- Postcard, "Public Library, Broadway and Line Streets, Camden, N.J.," circa 1939 - Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) amassed an immense fortune from railroads, oil, and steel. He devoted his later years to philanthropy. Between 1886 and 1919, Carnegie donated more than $40 million to build 1,679 new libraries in communities of all sizes across America. This Classical Revival-style library building, funded by a Carnegie grant, opened in 1905 in Camden, New Jersey.
- circa 1939
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Postcard, "Public Library, Broadway and Line Streets, Camden, N.J.," circa 1939
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) amassed an immense fortune from railroads, oil, and steel. He devoted his later years to philanthropy. Between 1886 and 1919, Carnegie donated more than $40 million to build 1,679 new libraries in communities of all sizes across America. This Classical Revival-style library building, funded by a Carnegie grant, opened in 1905 in Camden, New Jersey.