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Andrew Carnegie's cartoon throwing money in air, Life, 1905. According to biographer Burton J. Hendrick: His benefactions amounted to $350,000,000—for he gave away not only his annual income of something more than $12,500,000, but most of the principal as well.
This is a list of cartoonists, visual artists who specialize in drawing cartoons.This list includes only notable cartoonists and is not meant to be exhaustive. Note that the word 'cartoon' only took on its modern sense after its use in Punch magazine in the 1840s - artists working earlier than that are more correctly termed 'caricaturists',
1901 US cartoon from Puck depicting John D. Rockefeller as a business despot. Individuals identified in Josephson's Robber Barons (1934): John Jacob Astor (real estate, fur) – New York; Andrew Carnegie (steel) – Pittsburgh and New York; Jay Cooke (finance) – Philadelphia; Charles Crocker (railroads) – California; Edward L. Doheny (oil ...
Cassie L. Chadwick (10 October 1857 – 10 October 1907) was the most well-known pseudonym used by Canadian con artist Elizabeth Bigley, who defrauded several American banks out of millions of dollars during the late 1800s and early 1900s [5] by claiming to be an illegitimate daughter and heiress of the Scottish-American industrialist Andrew Carnegie.
The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video was named in honor of nineteenth-century American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. [1] It honored the producer of the most outstanding video production for children. [ 1 ]
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A Carnegie library is a library built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. A total of 2,509 Carnegie libraries were built between 1883 and 1929, including some belonging to public and university library systems.
Mora was also a successful portraitist who counted Andrew Carnegie among his subjects. After at least one attempt by another artist, Mora was selected by the Fine Arts Commission to paint a posthumous portrait of President Warren G. Harding. [7] That portrait remains on permanent display in the White House.