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Burgess ticket of the City and Royal Burgh of Aberdeen, 5th July, 1892

MLA citation style
Aberdeen (Scotland),. Burgess Ticket Of The City And Royal Burgh Of Aberdeen, 5Th July, 1892. no date. Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Department; Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Memorial, 1892July .
APA citation style
Aberdeen (Scotland),. (1892). Burgess ticket of the City and Royal Burgh of Aberdeen, 5th July, 1892. Retrieved from https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3Aacamu-acarc_449
Chicago citation style
Aberdeen (Scotland),. “Burgess Ticket Of The City And Royal Burgh Of Aberdeen, 5Th July, 1892”, Carnegie Mellon University - Andrew Carnegie Online Archives, July 5, 1892. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3Aacamu-acarc_449.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.

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Title

Burgess ticket of the City and Royal Burgh of Aberdeen, 5th July, 1892

Subject

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Aberdeen (Scotland)--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Industrialists--Charitable contributions--United States--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Philanthropists--United States--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Library benefactors--United States--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Carnegie libraries--Scotland--Aberdeen--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Carnegie libraries--Scotland--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Carnegie libraries--America--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Public libraries--Scotland--Aberdeen--Endowments--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Public libraries--Scotland--Endowments--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Public libraries--America--Endowments--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Picture frames and framing--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Aberdeen (Scotland)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.

Description

A photograph of a handwritten scrolled burgess ticket from the Lord Provost, Magistrates and Council of Aberdeen, Scotland, admitting and receiving Andrew Carnegie "as a free burgess and guild brother of the City and Royal Burgh of Aberdeen" in recognition of his contribution to the building of public libraries in Scotland and America. Andrew Carnegie and Mrs, Carnegie both contributed to the building of the Aberdeen Library. The ticket includes a decoration, decorative initials, seal, a ribbon and is signed by the town clerk. It is in a decorative wooden frame. Caption title.; On cardboard mount: 34 x 26 cm

Creator

Aberdeen (Scotland)

Publisher

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

Date

1892-07-05

Type

Text

Original Format

image/jpg

Identifier

CA-307
80978679

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.