About This Stamp
This Andrew Carnegie stamp features a portrait of the Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. After working in a cotton factory and telegraph office as a boy, Carnegie went to work with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Carnegie became a “self-made” man by learning about investments and cost management. He left the company to start the Keystone Bridge Company and consolidated his iron and steel assets to create the Carnegie Steel Company. He made his fortune from the steel industry. He was a philanthropist, whose donations helped to establish such places as Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now known as Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, and the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C.