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  3. Burgess ticket of the Royal Burgh of Arbroath, Scotland, 13th September, 1915

Burgess ticket of the Royal Burgh of Arbroath, Scotland, 13th September, 1915

MLA citation style
Burgess Ticket Of The Royal Burgh Of Arbroath, Scotland, 13Th September, 1915. no date. Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Department; Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Memorial, 1915Sept .
APA citation style
Burgess ticket of the Royal Burgh of Arbroath, Scotland, 13th September, 1915. (1915). Burgess ticket of the Royal Burgh of Arbroath, Scotland, 13th September, 1915. Retrieved from https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3Aacamu-acarc_151
Chicago citation style
“Burgess Ticket Of The Royal Burgh Of Arbroath, Scotland, 13Th September, 1915”, Carnegie Mellon University - Andrew Carnegie Online Archives, September 13, 1915. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3Aacamu-acarc_151.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.

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Title

Burgess ticket of the Royal Burgh of Arbroath, Scotland, 13th September, 1915

Subject

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Arbroath (Scotland)--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Industrialists--Charitable contributions--United States--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Philanthropists--United States--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Public baths--Scotland--Arbroath--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Public buildings--Scotland--Arbroath--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Public libraries--Scotland--Arbroath--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Arbroath (Scotland)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.

Description

A photograph of a handwritten burgess ticket from the Provost, Magistrates and Councilors of the Royal Burgh of Aberbrothock, Scotland, conferring upon Andrew Carnegie the "honorary freedom of the Burgh." This honor was given to him for his gift of public baths and his encouragement that resulted in the establishment of a free public library. Includes decorations and decorative borders, vignette, initials, seal and signatures. Caption title.; On cardboard mount: 26 x 35 cm

Publisher

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Department; Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Memorial

Date

1915-09-13

Type

Text

Original Format

image/jpg

Identifier

CA-154
71355559

Language

English

Relation

Andrew Carnegie Benefactions Collection

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Contact

For further information about the collection or a specific item please visit the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries website at https://digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu/portal/help.jsp

Contributing Institution

Carnegie Mellon University

Sponsorship

This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.