Carnegie Library, 402 East Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, OK Item Info
- Title:
- Carnegie Library, 402 East Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, OK
- Creator:
- Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
- Date Created:
- Not available
- Description:
- Significance: This Second Renaissance Revival structure was the scene of numerous historic events: the inauguration of both the last of the territorial governors and the first Governor of Statehood Oklahoma. The second Carnegie library in Oklahoma, it grew from the efforts of the organizers of one of the earliest libraries in Oklahoma, to which it is successor. It is remarkable for the number of ways in which it diverges from Andrew Carnegie's ideas of what a library building should be.
- Subjects:
- reading philanthropy libraries brick buildings storage stone buildings (sandstone) galleries & museums
- Location:
- Oklahoma, guthrie, logan county,
- Source:
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Source Identifier:
- ok0012
- Type:
- image/jpg
- Format:
- Image
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Carnegie Library, 402 East Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, OK", DigLib Demo Collection, University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI)
- Reference Link:
- https://morskyjezek.github.io/cb-test-turbo-octo-sniffle/cb-test-turbo-octo-sniffle/items/nc_028.html
Rights
- Rights:
- No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html