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Philanthropists
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry 
 An online archive of more than 400 items and over 100 sound recordings relating to Emile Berliner. Berliner "was responsible for the development of the microphone and the flat recording disc and gramophone player." He was also interested in the pasteurization of milk and other public-health issues, and was a composer, poet, and philanthropist. The collection is searchable and browsable. From the American Memory project of the Library of Congress, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/berlhtml/berlhome.html Topics: Beverages, Fish, Meat, & Dairy, Industries, Music, Notable People Last updated Oct 4, 2004 History of Andrew Carnegie and Carnegie Libraries
In addition to biographical and historical resources and links on Carnegie and the Carnegie libraries, this site has information on other philanthropic projects of the nineteenth century American industrialist. http://andrewcarnegie.tripod.com/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type, Notable People Last updated Dec 23, 2006 Honolulu Academy of Arts
This museum, founded in 1927, is located near downtown Honolulu and Waikiki, Hawaii. The site features images of items from the museum's permanent collections in the areas of Asian and Western art as well as items from Hawaii, Oceania, Africa, and the Americas. It also includes information about and images of philanthropist Doris Duke's Islamic-inspired home called "Shangri La." http://www.honoluluacademy.org/cmshaa/academy/index.aspx Topics: Museums, Museums by Place: United States, Notable People Last updated Aug 19, 2008 Invention and Enterprise: Ezra Cornell, A Nineteenth Century Life
This site is a biographical exhibition and timeline of philanthropist Ezra Cornell. Includes letters, diaries, photographs, documents, and publications of the founder of the Western Union Telegraph Company and Cornell University. A presentation of the Cornell University Library. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Ezra-exhibit/ Topics: Correspondence, Nonfiction by Genre, Notable People, Technology Last updated Oct 2, 2004 The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie
This collection focuses on the life and times of Andrew Carnegie. Includes biographical information, a look at the railroad and steel industries of the time, and what it took to get a grant from Carnegie for one of the 2,811 libraries he funded over 33 years. Part of the American Experience series from PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type, Notable People Last updated Oct 2, 2004 |
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