Download or read book Annual Report Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Annual Report written by Carnegie Institute and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes report of the director of fine arts, of the director of the Museum, and of the director of the Technical schools.

Download or read book Annual Report written by Carnegie Museum and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Director written by Carnegie Museum and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Director for the Year Ending written by Carnegie Museum and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Unheralded Triumph written by Jon C. Teaford and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1984. In 1888 the British observer James Bryce declared "the government of cities" to be "the one conspicuous failure of the United States." During the following two decades, urban reformers would repeat Bryce's words with ritualistic regularity; nearly a century later, his comment continues to set the tone for most assessments of nineteenth-century city government. Yet by the end of the century, as Jon Teaford argues in this important reappraisal, American cities boasted the most abundant water supplies, brightest street lights, grandest parks, largest public libraries, and most efficient systems of transportation in the world. Far from being a "conspicuous failure," municipal governments of the late nineteenth century had successfully met challenges of an unprecedented magnitude and complexity. The Unheralded Triumph draws together the histories of the most important cities of the Gilded Age—especially New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Baltimore—to chart the expansion of services and the improvement of urban environments between 1870 and 1900. It examines the ways in which cities were transformed, in a period of rapid population growth and increased social unrest, into places suitable for living. Teaford demonstrates how, during the last decades of the nineteenth century, municipal governments adapted to societal change with the aid of generally compliant state legislatures. These were the years that saw the professionalization of city government and the political accommodation of the diverse ethnic, economic, and social elements that compose America's heterogeneous urban society. Teaford acknowledges that the expansion of urban services dangerously strained city budgets and that graft, embezzlement, overcharging, and payroll-padding presented serious problems throughout the period. The dissatisfaction with city governments arose, however, not so much from any failure to achieve concrete results as from the conflicts between those hostile groups accommodated within the newly created system: "For persons of principle and gentlemen who prized honor, it seemed a failure yet American municipal government left as a legacy such achievements as Central Park, the new Croton Aqueduct, and the Brooklyn Bridge, monuments of public enterprise that offered new pleasures and conveniences for millions of urban citizens."

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Download or read book Philanthropy and Light written by Oriel Prizeman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Gropius associated standardisation with promoting civilisation in 1935, yet Andrew Carnegie’s influence on the proliferation of pattern book public library plans internationally predated these observations by 50 years. Through the first twenty years of his programme, he supported the erection of almost three thousand public buildings across Britain and America. Though better acknowledged in the US than the UK, this philanthropic contribution radically extended the scope of public provision and remains incomparable in its scale and scope in both nations. Frequently engraved with the self-deifying slogan Let there be Light , open access to navigate these new interior public spaces after work coincided with the first provision of electric light. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, professional groups had sought to specify minimum standards of natural light and air for schools and hospitals. However, the commercial quantification of electricity accelerated the development of a readily comparable vocabulary to prescribe adequate quantities of light for all tasks regardless of their location or orientation. Seeking to gauge the extent of universal values, this book concentrates on the design and performance of a handful of early Carnegie library buildings in Britain and America, identifying their response to contemporary design theory, but also by contrast to their respective local environmental contexts. It examines whether their standards of provision were equitable and if these privately financed public buildings were the first roots of generically standardised public environments to be shared transatlantically. The book also argues that the public library building type can provide a datum for acknowledging the twentieth century legacy of shared international environmental standards for public spaces more broadly.

Download or read book Annual Report of the Director to the Board of Trustees for the Year written by Field Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Bulletin of the Public Library Providence R I Successor to the Co perative Bulletin of the Providence Libraries written by Providence Public Library (R.I.) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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