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Medal, Carnegie Hero Fund for Sweden, founded 1911, endowment $230,000

MLA citation style
Carnegiestiftelsen,. Medal, Carnegie Hero Fund For Sweden, Founded 1911, Endowment $230,000. no date. Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Department, 1911.
APA citation style
Carnegiestiftelsen,. (1911). Medal, Carnegie Hero Fund for Sweden, founded 1911, endowment $230,000. Retrieved from https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3Aacamu-acarc_661
Chicago citation style
Carnegiestiftelsen,. “Medal, Carnegie Hero Fund For Sweden, Founded 1911, Endowment $230,000”, Carnegie Mellon University - Andrew Carnegie Online Archives, 1911. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3Aacamu-acarc_661.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.

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Title

Medal, Carnegie Hero Fund for Sweden, founded 1911, endowment $230,000

Subject

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Pictorial works.
Carnegiestiftelsen--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Industrialists--Charitable contributions--United States--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Industrialists--United States--Pictorial works.
Philanthropists--United States--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Philanthropists--United States--Pictorial works.
Endowments--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Endowments--Sweden--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Heroes--Medals--Pictorial works.
Heroes--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Heroes--Sweden--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Heroes--Sweden--Medals--Pictorial works.
Courage--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Medals--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Medals--Pictorial works.
Medals--Sweden--Pictorial works.
Portrait medallions--Pictorial works.
Portrait medallions--Sweden--Pictorial works.
Sweden--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.

Description

Two photographs of a medal, showing both sides of the medal issued by the Carnegiestiftelsen, the Swedish equivalent of the Carnegie Hero Fund Trust. The front side of the medal is a portrait of Andrew Carnegie with the inscription: " Carnegiestiftelsen, grundad, 1911". The reverse side shows two figures, a man caring a child, there is a serpent intertwined around the mans feet and reaching to attack his left side. The name Erik Lindberg is engraved by the man's right side. On cardboard mount: 26 x 35 cm

Creator

Carnegiestiftelsen

Publisher

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Department

Date

1911

Type

Photograph; Image

Original Format

image/jpg

Identifier

CA-457
143409737

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.