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  3. Carved wood casket, ornamented with silver medallions, containing the freedom of the City of Cork, Ireland, 21st October, 1903

Carved wood casket, ornamented with silver medallions, containing the freedom of the City of Cork, Ireland, 21st October, 1903

MLA citation style
Cork (Ireland). Council,. Carved Wood Casket, Ornamented With Silver Medallions, Containing The Freedom Of The City Of Cork, Ireland, 21St October, 1903. no date. Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Department; Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Memorial, 1903Oct .
APA citation style
Cork (Ireland). Council,. (1903). Carved wood casket, ornamented with silver medallions, containing the freedom of the City of Cork, Ireland, 21st October, 1903. Retrieved from https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3Aacamu-acarc_202
Chicago citation style
Cork (Ireland). Council,. “Carved Wood Casket, Ornamented With Silver Medallions, Containing The Freedom Of The City Of Cork, Ireland, 21St October, 1903”, Carnegie Mellon University - Andrew Carnegie Online Archives, October 21, 1903. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3Aacamu-acarc_202.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.

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Title

Carved wood casket, ornamented with silver medallions, containing the freedom of the City of Cork, Ireland, 21st October, 1903

Subject

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Cork (Ireland). Council.
Industrialists--Charitable contributions--United States--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Philanthropists--United States--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Library benefactors--United States--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Carnegie libraries--Ireland--Cork--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Public libraries--Ireland--Cork--Endowments--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Wooden boxes--Pictorial works.
Ornamental boxes--Pictorial works.
Cork (Ireland)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Cork (Ireland)--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.

Description

A photograph of the front view of a decorative wooden casket for a burgess ticket from the "Council of the County Borough of Cork", Ireland, thanking Andrew Carnegie for his gift of £10,000 towards a "Free Public Library." The casket is decorated with silver medallions that depict parts of a castle, two silver castle towers at the top of the box, a silver plaque honoring Andrew Carnegie from the City of Cork, Ireland, silver hinges and decorative silver ornamentation around the keyhole to the container. A scene with buildings is carved in the wood in the middle of the box and other decorative wood carvings are present on the box. Caption title.; On cardboard mount: 26 x 34 cm

Creator

Cork (Ireland). Council

Publisher

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

Date

1903-10-21

Type

Photograph; Image

Original Format

image/jpg

Identifier

CA-171
71757297

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.