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Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh:
History 1895 - 1969
Preface
This history of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
was
compiled for staff use. It is hoped that it will (1) give staff members
some idea of the steps by which the Library has reached its present stage
of development--through two world wars, the Great Depression, and several
recessions, and (2) aid in locating names, dates and other historical
data.
The Library's printed annual reports are less comprehensive than an
historian would wish, but they were used almost exclusively for facts,
with only occasional recourse to correspondence and other original
sources.
--Ralph Munn.
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