The Best Fields for Philanthropy | The American Library Association Archives

Poster for the Carnegie Centenary, including advice from Andrew Carnegie and an image of a tree.

Text on the poster reads: Carnegie Centenary, November 25, 1935. The best fields for philanthropy, recommended by Andrew Carnegie: 1. A university. 2. A free public library, provided the community accept and maintain it. 3. Hospitals, medical colleges, laboratories, and other institutions connected with the alleviation of human suffering, especially with the prevention rather than with the cure of human ills. 4. Public parks, provided the community undertakes to maintain, beautify and preserve them inviolate. 5. A hall suitable for meetings and concernts, provided a city will maintain and use it. 6. Swimming-baths, provided a municipality undertakes their management. 7. Churches, provided the support of the churches is upon their own people.

Found in RS 12/3/12, Folder: Carnegie Centenary (November 23, 1935)