{"id":145,"date":"2014-01-22T10:35:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T15:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfredarchives.wordpress.com\/?p=145"},"modified":"2014-01-22T10:35:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T15:35:37","slug":"carnegie-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/2014\/01\/22\/carnegie-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnegie Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/01\/carnegie-libraryinterior.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-146\" alt=\"Carnegie Library,interior\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/01\/carnegie-libraryinterior.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/01\/carnegie-desk-chair-plant-stand.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-147\" alt=\"Carnegie desk, chair, plant stand\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/01\/carnegie-desk-chair-plant-stand.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nToday&#8217;s Carnegie Hall (the University&#8217;s administration building) may look mostly the same on the outside as it did when it opened in 1913, but it certainly looks much different on the inside! The Archives is fortunate to possess the original oak library circulation desk, chair, and plant stand (as well as few of the library tables). The photo on the left shows librarian Clarence Mitchell in 1922 sitting at the desk.<br \/>\nAlfred University&#8217;s Carnegie Library was built by <a title=\"Andrew Carnegie\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_Carnegie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Carnegie<\/a>. While Carnegie mostly constructed public libraries, he did fund a number of academic ones as well, something many people are not aware of. The University constructed a new library (Herrick Library) in 1957.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Carnegie Hall (the University&#8217;s administration building) may look mostly the same on the outside as it did when it opened in 1913, but it certainly looks much different on the inside! The Archives is fortunate to possess the original &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/2014\/01\/22\/carnegie-library\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,42,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}