Andrew Carnegie (American National Biography)

Scholarship
Joseph Frazier Wall, "Carnegie, Andrew," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/10/10-00264.html.
Carnegie made significant contributions in his three major areas of interest. As an industrialist, he emphasized the importance of cost of production over the value of profits, he pushed for verticality within his company structure, and he welcomed technological innovation. As a philanthropist, he attempted a scientific analysis of the art of giving, pioneered in the development of the modern philanthropic foundation, and placed education and free inquiry as primary fields of importance in creating a better society.
American National Biography Online

Andrew Carnegie, Immigration (American National Biography)

Scholarship
Joseph Frazier Wall, "Carnegie, Andrew," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/10/10-00264.html.
On 17 May 1848 the Carnegies departed from Glasgow on the small sailing vessel Wiscasset. After an arduous ten-week journey, they reached Pittsburgh. They were provided with two rooms rent-free in a house that sister Annie owned on a back alley in Allegheny, across the river from Pittsburgh. One glance at their new home must have convinced even the determined Margaret that she had indeed "spoiled the horn," for here was slum poverty that exceeded anything she had ever seen in Scotland. But there could be no retreat.
American National Biography Online

James Matthew Barrie

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New York Public Library
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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, March 12, 2010.
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Sir James M. Barrie
Source citation
Billy Rose Theatre Collection, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Source note
Original image at NYPLDigitalGallery

J.M. Barrie, author of "Peter Pan," born in Scotland

James Matthew Barrie was born in Kerriemuir in Scotland to a linen weaver family and was educated at Edinburgh University.  He worked for a time as a journalist and then published several novels.  He turned to writing for the theater and authored Quality Street and The Admirable Crichton before producing his most enduring work, Peter Pan, Or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up.  He was knighted in 1914 and died in 1937.  (By John Osborne) 
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Royal Navy capture American-built slave ship "Sunny South" off Mozambique

The American-built ship Sunny South had sailed from New York to Havana, refitted and renamed the Manuela, and then sailed for the African coast.  She was pursued and captured by the British warship Brisk and found to have hundreds of slaves aboard. The ship was confiscated and later wrecked. (By John Osborne)
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Royal Navy capture slaver "Sunny South" off Mozambique, August 10, 1860, zoomable image

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David Gillespie, Dickinson College
Notes
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, March 12, 2010.
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engraving
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No
Permission to use?
Public
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Capture of the Sunny South, slave ship, with 702 negroes on board, by the British war steamer Brisk, in the Mozambique channel on the 10th of August, 1860 -- see page 106.
Source citation
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, January 5, 1861, 109.
Source note
Print originally appeared in the London Illustrated News. 

Andrew Carnegie, circa 1905, detail

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Library of Congress
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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, March 12, 2010.
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print
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No
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
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Public
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Andrew Carnegie
Source citation
Frances Benjamin Johnson Collection, Library of Congress

Andrew Carnegie, circa 1905

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Library of Congress
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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, March 12, 2010.
Image type
print
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Permission to use?
Public
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Andrew Carnegie
Source citation
Frances Benjamin Johnson Collection, Library of Congress
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