My choice for Labor Day. Older than the information age, certainly, but right on point. From industrialization to information. The statue originally graced the Allegheny Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, PA.
"Built in 1889, it was an island of calm…and the first free library Andrew Carnegie built in the US, close to Slabtown where he worked as a bobbin boy in a textile mill after arriving from Scotland in 1848. Meant to be a ‘working boys’ library, it was the culmination of his dream to honor his mentor Colonel James Anderson, a pioneer iron manufacturer. Pittsburgh, famous as the Steel City, was actually once known as the “Iron City,” due to the industry of Anderson and his fellow ironmongers, but that moniker now exists only as the name of a popular local beer."
Via Simply Jews
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