Photograph Album of
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)

The following are photographs related to the life of Andrew Carnegie, which do not specifically deal with Carnegie Libraries.

Special Note: This project, to display photographs related to the life of Andrew Carnegie, has just begun. More photographs will be added to this page, when they are ready.

Andrew Carnegie Portrait in the Andrew Carnegie Free Library (1)

Andrew Carnegie Photograph and Voice Recording

Photograph of Andrew Carnegie from Carnegie Item October 20, 1899

Andrew Carnegie Portrait at 1895 Dedication of The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Institute

Carnegie Institute, Museums, and Music Hall

Home of Colonel James Anderson (1)

This is the former home of Colonel James Anderson, which is now a personal care home for senior citizens known as "Anderson Manor." Colonel Anderson's private library was opened to the public each Saturday afternoon, 1850-1853; Colonel Anderson served as the librarian. Andrew Carnegie was one of the working boys of Allegheny City, who regularly visited this library.

These are some of the original books from the personal library of Colonel James Anderson. Andrew Carnegie, as a young man, read most of these books. Photograph 5 shows the nameplate of the Anderson Library Institute, the name of Anderson's private library in 1850, prior to his donation of money for the opening of the Mechanics' and Apprentices' Library of Allegheny City in 1853.

On the Monongahela River in Braddock, Pa., Andrew Carnegie's first major steel mill opened on August 22, 1875. Named after the President of the Pennsylvania Railroad(to ensure that Carnegie received the railroad's steel rail business), the Edgar Thomson Works continues to produce steel for the U.S. Steel Group, a unit of the USX Corporation. In this photograph, the Edgar Thomson Works is directly behind Lock and Dam Number 2, on the Monongahela River.

An original Bessemer Converter, now on display at Station Square in Pittsburgh. [Note: This particular Bessemer Converter did not come from a Carnegie Steel or a U.S. Steel plant. However, it does show what a Bessemer Converter looks like.]

This historical marker is near the site, on the Monongahela River, where Pinkerton agents landed during the Homestead steel strike of 1892.

These steel beams, embossed with the name "Carnegie," are two of many donated(as a result of the efforts of well-known Astronomer and Optician, John A. Brashear) by the Carnegie Steel Company to the University of Pittsburgh, in 1905, for the construction of the new Allegheny Observatory in Allegheny City, Pa.(now part of Pittsburgh). The Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh, houses three telescopes, including the fifth largest refractor telescope in the world.

Carnegie Steel Company steel beam: Photo 1 (3)***Photo 2 (1)

Allegheny Observatory(1906 building): Photo 1 (1)***Photo 2

The Pullman Palace Car Company was one of Andrew Carnegie's many businesses. This is the original model used to obtain a patent for the Pullman Parlor Car, in 1878. This model is on display at the popular Miniature Railroad and Village exhibit, in Pittsburgh's Carnegie Science Center.

Dominating the skyline of "Carnegie Tech," Hamerschlag Hall was one of the original buildings of the Carnegie Technical Schools in Pittsburgh. Opened in 1900, Carnegie Mellon University is now a national leader, in education, in the fields of computer science, robotics, engineering, public and private management, and drama.

In 1908, Andrew Carnegie commissioned well-known Astronomer and Optician, John A. Brashear, to build a telescope so that Carnegie Tech students could see Halley's Comet in 1910. A year or two after the comet passed Earth, the telescope's observatory was razed to make-way for construction of the Fine Arts Building for the Carnegie Technical Schools, now Carnegie-Mellon University. After decades of remaining in storage, the Amateur Astronomers' Association of Pittsburgh restored the telescope for use in the Nicholas E. Wagman Observatory in Deer Lakes Park, one of Allegheny County's regional parks northeast of Pittsburgh. This historic telescope is now available for free public viewing of celestial objects, several times a year during the Wagman Observatory's public star parties.

Photograph one shows the 11-inch Brashear Refractor Telescope in its original observatory, on the campus of the Carnegie Technical Schools, circa 1910. Photographs two and three show this telescope, today, in the Nicholas E. Wagman Observatory.

Photo 1 *** Photo 2 *** Photo 3

Photograph Album of Astronomer and Optician John A. Brashear
(friend of Andrew Carnegie)