Rome, Georgia, Carnegie Library

Rome, Georgia, Carnegie Library

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Public Library, Savannah, Georgia

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Public Library,Savannah, Georgia

[LIB6613] - The history of the Live Oak Public Libraries can be traced back to the turn of the century in Savannah. Established in 1903, the Savannah Public Library consisted of a 23,000 volume collection housed in one room of the Georgia Historical Society. Ten years later the Carnegie Library opened on East Henry Street to serve Savannah’s black community. Surrounded by late-Victorian homes and adjacent to a small city park modeled on the squares in historic downtown Savannah the main library building on Bull Street opened for use in 1916. The library was built at a cost of $104,041.78 with a Carnegie grant. Its neoclassical design was provided by architect H. W. Witcover, who also designed Savannah’s City Hall. In 1936, WPA programs provided for the addition of a small wing filled with book stacks and a mural depicting a scene from the Robin Hood story in the children’s room. [From the website]

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Woodworth Library, Fort Gordon, Georgia

[LIB2752] - Woodworth Library is main library of Fort Gordon, and is named in honor of Capt. Clark N. Woodworth, killed in action in Viet Nam. Fort Gordon, located in eastern Georgia 12 miles from Augusta, encompasses 55,600 acres and contains the U.S. Army School Training Center. [From the back of the card]

Bradley Memorial Library, Columbus, Georgia

[LIB1705] Built on the spacious estate of its namesake, the late W.C. Bradley, and dedicated in 1950. [From the back of the card]

About the current Columbus Public Library

The Columbus Public Library opened January 2005 with much fanfare. Designed by world renown architectural firm Robert A. M. Stern, Associates, the two and a half story building is 100,000 square feet in size. The first floor is dedicated to children's and teens services, best selling books and new releases, and meeting rooms. On the first floor are the Aflac Children's Room and the Aflac Children's Story Room.

The second floor houses the adult circulation materials, the Genealogy and Local History Department and the W. C. Bradley Memorial Reading Room (Reference Department). [Website]

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

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

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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