A Chronicle of Men, at Least Two Women, and Money: Sarah C.N. Bogle and the Carnegie Corporation of New York

Accounts of Andrew Carnegie's library philanthropy and his "corporate reincarnation," the Carnegie Corporation of New York, have characterized the "circles of acquaintance" which shaped that giving as solely male. The contributions of two women, Louise Whitfield Carnegie, Andrew Carnegie's wife, and Sarah C. N. Bogle, associate secretary of the American Library Association and colleague of Carnegie Corporation president Frederick P. Keppel, were critical to the work of the corporation. Examples of their influence can be seen in Carnegie gifts to the Church Peace Union, to the Juniata College Library, to library service in the Virgin Islands, and to library education in North America and in France.