Ilah Dunlap Little Memorial Library, University of Georgia, Athens GA

[LIB0164] - Dedicated in 1953. A Brief History of The University of Georgia Libraries

A post card history of Athens, Georgia

Athens (Georgia) A Pictorial History

City reopens historic library, Newnan, Georgia

Thanks to the Times-Herald.com reporting on this story:

On Tuesday, citizens of the city of Newnan came together to celebrate the "rebirth" of the Newnan Carnegie Library. The city has been faithful to the... vision and has restored the building to a place of learning and knowledge -- "a place where people will come to learn the pleasures of reading."

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Andrew Carnegie provided a grant of $10,000, on 1901 December 30, for construction of a Carnegie Library building facing the town square in Newnan, Georgia. A teenager from this Georgia town actually sought this library grant directly from Andrew Carnegie! Given early in the Carnegie Library grant program, this was one of the first Carnegie Library grants in the state of Georgia and was provided to a town which had not previously had a public library. It is also, likely, the oldest surviving Carnegie Library building in the state. The cornerstone for the Library was laid on 1903 August 4. The Carnegie Library opened to the public in 1904. [Excerpted from Historic Carnegie Libraries, http://andrewcarnegie.tripod.com/cfl.html]

Public Library, Savannah, Georgia

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Currently home to The Georgia Historical Society. The Society’s collection includes four million manuscripts, 100,000 photographs, 30,000 architectural drawings, 15,000 rare and non-rare books, and thousands of maps, portraits and artifacts, representing the collective memory of the state of Georgia and relating the stories of the state’s diverse people.

1907 Carnegie Library, Atlanta, Georgia

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Library, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia

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• 1910 - the Andrew Carnegie Library was the college's first library building. A gift of Mr. Carnegie, it was on the southeast corner of the main quad. That building was demolished in 1986, having served first as library then as a student center ("the Hub") after the new library was constructed.

• 1935 - In May, 1935, the college Board of Trustees authorized construction of a new library.

• 1936 - The new library opened in the fall of 1936. Still called the Carnegie Library, it consisted of 4 main floors, a grand reading room, and an attached "stack tower" of 7 floors.

• 1951 - The library was renamed for James Ross McCain, on the occasion of his retirement as the 2nd President of the College. [SOURCE]
  

c1910 Carnegie Library, Atlanta, Georgia

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1950s Ilah Dunlap Little Memorial Library, University of Georgia, ATHENS GA