Celebrating the Library Spirit: A Look Back at the Carnegie Libraries in Oklahoma

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Creator: Finchum, Tanya D.; Finchum, G. Allen
Title: Celebrating the Library Spirit: A Look Back at the Carnegie Libraries in Oklahoma
Is Part Of: Chronicles of Oklahoma
Has Version: https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2016848/m1/19/
Abstract: Article describes the construction of twenty-four libraries in Oklahoma funded by Andrew Carnegie in the early 1900s. Tanya D. Finchum and G. Allen Finchum provide a detailed look at these libraries and their continuing contribution.
Date: 2001
pages: 454-475
issue: 4
volume: 79
Subject: Education; Libraries; Asphalt; Brick; Building; Stone; Ardmore Carnegie Library; Built-up tar and gravel; Carnegie Library; Cast concrete molding; Clerestory windows; Cordell Carnegie Library; Hobart Public Library; Limestone; Masonry dome; Open eaves; Ornamental brickwork; Parapet; Sandstone; Tahlequah Carnegie Library; McCaw & Bellis; Renaissance Revival; Dentils; Colonial Revival; Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival; Kreipke, A. C.; Classical Revival; Compound arches; Corbeled brickwork; Bennett, J.H.; McNase, W.M.; Creasey, J.R.; Campbell, A.O.; Ceramic tile; Cordell Carnegie Public Library; Crowell, A.A.; Curvilinear gables; Decorative concrete molding; Ornamental ironwork; Smith and Moore; Smith, J.W.; Smith, S. Wemyss; Vandenburg, J.H.
Temporal Coverage: 1904; 1907; 1912; 1922; 1905
Spatial Coverage: Kiowa County, Oklahoma; Washita County, Oklahoma; Logan County, Oklahoma; Cherokee County, Oklahoma; Carter County, Oklahoma; Comanche County, Oklahoma; Canadian County, Oklahoma; Hobart, Oklahoma; Cordell, Oklahoma; El Reno, Oklahoma; Tahlequah, Oklahoma; Guthrie, Oklahoma; Ardmore, Oklahoma; Lawton, Oklahoma
Identifier: V7SFC56I

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