List of Carnegie libraries in Wyoming
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The following list of Carnegie libraries in Wyoming provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Wyoming, where 16 libraries were built from 16 grants (totaling $257,500) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1899 to 1917.
Carnegie libraries
Library | City or town |
Image | Date granted[1] |
Grant amount[1] |
Location | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Basin | Basin | Jun 29, 1908 | $17,500 | |||
2 | Buffalo | Buffalo | Jan 14, 1909 | $12,500 | |||
3 | Casper | Casper | Feb 13, 1906 | $13,000 | |||
4 | Cheyenne | Cheyenne | Dec 27, 1899 | $50,000 | |||
5 | Cody | Cody | Apr 13, 1914 | $15,000 | |||
6 | Douglas | Douglas | Jul 20, 1908 | $10,000 | |||
7 | Evanston | Evanston | Feb 20, 1903 | $11,000 | |||
8 | Green River | Green River | Dec 8, 1905 | $20,000 | |||
9 | Lander | Lander | Nov 27, 1906 | $15,000 | |||
10 | Laramie | Laramie | Jan 2, 1903 | $20,000 | |||
11 | Lusk | Lusk | May 8, 1914 | $11,000 | |||
12 | Newcastle | Newcastle | Feb 20, 1911 | $12,500 | |||
13 | Rock Springs | Rock Springs | Dec 13, 1907 | $12,500 | |||
14 | Sheridan | Sheridan | Mar 18, 1904 | $12,500 | |||
15 | Thermopolis | Thermopolis | Apr 3, 1917 | $12,500 | |||
16 | Wheatland | Wheatland | May 15, 1916 | $12,500 |
Notes
References
- Anderson, Florence (1963). Carnegie Corporation Library Program 1911–1961. New York: Carnegie Corporation. OCLC 1282382.
- Bobinski, George S. (1969). Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development. Chicago: American Library Association. ISBN 0838900224.
- Jones, Theodore (1997). Carnegie Libraries Across America. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0471144223.
- Miller, Durand R. (1943). Carnegie Grants for Library Buildings, 1890-1917. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York. OCLC 2603611.
Note: The above references, while all authoritative, are not entirely mutually consistent. Some details of this list may have been drawn from one of the references without support from the others. Reader discretion is advised.