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Casket, Edinburgh, Scotland, reverse side

MLA citation style
Casket, Edinburgh, Scotland, Reverse Side. no date. Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Department; Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Memorial, no date.
APA citation style
Casket, Edinburgh, Scotland, reverse side. (no date). Casket, Edinburgh, Scotland, reverse side. Retrieved from https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3Aacamu-acarc_168
Chicago citation style
“Casket, Edinburgh, Scotland, Reverse Side”, Carnegie Mellon University - Andrew Carnegie Online Archives, no date. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3Aacamu-acarc_168.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.

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Title

Casket, Edinburgh, Scotland, reverse side

Subject

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Hope, Thomas, Sir, d. 1646--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Edinburgh (Scotland). Public Library--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
New York (N.Y.)--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Industrialists--Charitable contributions--United States--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Philanthropists--United States--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Library benefactors--United States--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Public libraries--Scotland--Edinburgh--Endowments--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Carnegie libraries--Scotland--Edinburgh--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Wooden boxes--Pictorial works.
Ornamental boxes--Pictorial works.
Edinburgh (Scotland)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Edinburgh (Scotland)--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.

Description

A photograph of the reverse view of an oak casket given to Andrew Carnegie by the City of New York. The casket had once been owned by Sir Thomas Hope of Edinburgh, Scotland, whose house later became the site of a public library donated by Andrew Carnegie. The purpose of the casket was to hold a burgess ticket. Caption title.; Produced in conjunction with: Casket made of oak from the house of Sir Thomas Hope, ornamented with silver, burgess ticket sent from New York to Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Scotland-- 8th July, 1887.; On cardboard mount: 26 x 34 cm

Publisher

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

Type

Photograph; Image

Original Format

image/jpg

Identifier

CA-193
71375022

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.