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Gold, silver and bronze medals, Carnegie Hero Fund for United States, established April 15, 1904

MLA citation style
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission,. Gold, Silver And Bronze Medals, Carnegie Hero Fund For United States, Established April 15, 1904. no date. Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Department, 1904.
APA citation style
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission,. (1904). Gold, silver and bronze medals, Carnegie Hero Fund for United States, established April 15, 1904. Retrieved from https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3Aacamu-acarc_664
Chicago citation style
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission,. “Gold, Silver And Bronze Medals, Carnegie Hero Fund For United States, Established April 15, 1904”, Carnegie Mellon University - Andrew Carnegie Online Archives, 1904. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3Aacamu-acarc_664.
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Title

Gold, silver and bronze medals, Carnegie Hero Fund for United States, established April 15, 1904

Subject

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Miscellanea--Medals--Pictorial works.
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Pictorial works.
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission--Endowments--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Industrialists--Charitable contributions--United States--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Industrialists--United States--Medals--Pictorial works.
Industrialists--United States--Pictorial works.
Philanthropists--United States--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Philanthropists--United States--Medals--Pictorial works.
Philanthropists--United States--Pictorial works.
Endowments--United States--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Heroes--United States--Medals--Pictorial works.
Heroes--United States--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Medals--United States--Pictorial works.
Medals--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.
Portrait medallions--United States--Pictorial works.
United States--Miscellanea--Pictorial works.

Description

Two photographs of medals in gold, silver and bronze, showing both sides of each medal issued by the Carnegie Hero Fund for the United States. The front sides of each medal features a portrait of Andrew Carnegie with the inscriptions: "Carnegie Hero Fund" and "Established April 15, 1904". The reverse sides of each medal features a blank plaque with the words: "Awarded to" and: "Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends". The reverse sides of each medal rests in a velvet lined case with an engraved plaque that reads: "To Andrew Carnegie from Carnegie Hero Fund Commission." On cardboard mount: 26 x 35 cm

Creator

Carnegie Hero Fund Commission

Publisher

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Department

Date

1904

Type

Photograph; Image

Original Format

image/jpg

Identifier

CA-459
143925008

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.