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Description
The caption reads, "Lithgow Library, Augusta, Maine." The Library was built with a financial gift from Llewellyn Lithgow, an Augusta merchant, and Andrew Carnegie in 1896. The building stone used was gray Norridgewock granite, locally quarried.
The Tichnor Brothers printing company published this type of postcard circa 1930-1945.
About This Item
- Title: Lithgow Library, Augusta, ca. 1935
- Creator: Tichnor Bros., Inc.
- Creation Date: circa 1935
- Subject Date: circa 1935
- Location: Augusta, Kennebec County, ME
- Media: Linen texture postcard
- Dimensions: 9 cm x 14 cm
- Collection: The Tichnor Brothers Collection
- Object Type: Text and Image
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- Lithgow Library (Augusta, Me.)--Postcards
- Libraries--Maine--Augusta
- Postcards--Maine
- Carnegie libraries--Maine--Augusta
- Lithgow, Llewellyn--Commemoration
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