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1835 - 1919

Carnegie the “Robber Baron”

• “He saw himself as a hero of working people, yet he crushed their unions. The richest man in the world, he railed against privilege. A generous philanthropist, he slashed the wages of the workers who made him rich.”

• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/sfeature/meet_andrews.html

WAS HE A “ROBBER BARON” ?

http://www.clpgh.org/locations/pennsylvania/carnegie/accoat.html

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/exhibit/carnegie.html

Pittsburgh Steel Factories

PHOTOGRAPHER: [Abram M. Brown.] DATE: 1906. HEADING: Pittsburgh. Smoke Problem. #: A432. From the Collections of the Pennsylvania Department, The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/exhibit/neighborhoods/strip/strip_n27.html

CARNEGIE WORKED IN A FACTORY AS A BOY IN PITTSBURGH

• At the age of thirteen, Andrew Carnegie began his new life in America as a bobbin boy in a cotton factory.

IMMIGRANT WORKERS

• Carnegie was one of millions of children who worked in the factories of America.

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CARNEGIE’S JOBS AS A BOY

• “At fifteen he took a job as a messenger boy for a telegraph company. It was heaven compared to his job down in the dark cellar of the steam engine room. In his next job, at seventeen, he became a telegrapher, making good money, $25 per month.”

• http://www.usdreams.com/Carnegie14.html

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Young Knitters in London Hosiery Mill, London, Tennessee

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Indiana Glass Works Photographs by Lewis B. Hines

Young Cigar Makers in Tampa, Florida

• Photo by:• Lewis W.

Hine

• http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html

Boys in the packing room at the Brown Mfg. Co. Evansville, Ind.

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/packing.jpg

The Strength of the New Stock

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/exhibit/stell11.html

At the Base of the Blast FurnacePittsburgh Portraits by Joseph Stella

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/exhibit/stell28.html

In the Light of a Five-Ton Ingot

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/exhibit/stell3.html

Immigrant out of Work

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/exhibit/stell9.html

Slav in Bread Line

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/exhibit/stell27.html

Tired Out

•http://www.carnegielibrary.org/exhibit/stell22.html

CARNEGIE’S DREAM TO BECOME WEALTHY BY AGE 30 COMES TRUE

http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/01.htm

Ahh, The Life of the Rich Man…Skibo, 1899

• http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/19.htm

Skibo Masons Pose

• http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/29.htm

Skibo in 1900

• http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/28.htm

Skibo Castle 1900

• http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/88.htm

REFLECTION

• Running around the walls of the room were the slogans that had inspired him throughout his life: "Let There Be Light," "The Kingdom of Heaven Is Within You," "The Gods Send Thread For The Web Begun," "All Is Well Since All Grows Better," and "Thine Own Reproach Alone Do Fear.“

• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/gallery/carnegieman.html

Front Hall of Skibo Castle

• http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/91.htm

Dining Room

http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/96.htm

Library

http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/100.htm

Gun Room

http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/103.htm

Mrs. Carnegie’s Sitting Room

http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/104.htm

Mrs. Carnegie’s Bedroom

http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/107.htm

Swimming Pool 1906

http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/75.htm

Carnegie Home in New York

http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/87.htm

Carnegie Gardners Skiebo Castle

Skibo Castle Workers

http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/80.htm

Laying Foundation of Church

http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/77.htm

Andrew Carnegie Golfing

• http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/39.htm

Andrew Carnegie Successful Businessman

• http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/07.htm

Shooting Party 1899

• http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/72.htm

Louise Whitfield Carnegie

• http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/06.htm

Andrew Carnegie and Wife Louise

• http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/08.htm

Margaret Carnegie

http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/43.htm

http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/42.htm

Margaret Carnegie

http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/44.htm

Margaret Carnegie & Rannoch

http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/47.htm

http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/50.htm

Louise and Daughter Margaret

• http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/55.htm

Andrew Carnegie and Wife Louise

• http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/Andrew/10.htm

Caption: Andrew Carnegie saying farewell to Pittsburgh. Mr. Carnegie and wife [Louise] leaving East Liberty Station in 1914 on last visit to this city. Notes: Photographer: Frank E. Bingaman. Date: 30 October 1914.

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Caption: Andrew Carnegie saying farewell to Pittsburgh.

Andrew Carnegie, accompanied by Arthur Arton Hamerschlag, first

director, reviewing students of the Carnegie Technical Schools. http://www.carnegielibrary.org/exhibit/neighborhoods/oakland/oak_n275.html

• PHOTOGRAPHER: Frank E. Bingaman. DATE: HEADING: Pittsburgh. Carnegie, Andrew. #: B377. From the Collections of the Pennsylvania Department, The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

WAS CARNEGIE A “ROBBER BARON”?

• Carnegie founded 2,509 libraries in the English-speaking world, including ones in Michigan, New York, Ohio, Vermont, and Washington, D.C. He also established several trusts and helped found Carnegie Mellon University. At the time of his death in 1919, Carnegie had given away over $350 million.

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