Anyone who knows a little Waterloo history knows that this community was lucky to get two Carnegie libraries in this town. Because of the conflict between the West and East sides, Andrew Carnegie agreed to give money to build two libraries.
This is only one of the 99 stories in The Carnegie Libraries of Iowa by John M. Witt (027.473 WIT). Between 1892 and 1917, Andrew Carnegie gave away an incredible $1,565,616.00 to build libraries in Iowa. Before the first Carnegie library was constructed in Iowa at Fairfield, Andrew Carnegie had only donated funds for three libraries - all located in Pennsylvania as gifts to his steel factory employees.
The book is full of photographs to compliment the few pages devoted to each library. This will be of big interest to history buffs.
c Waterloo Public Library 2007
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