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The Boston Public Library is a municipal public library system in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1848. [4] The Boston Public Library is also Massachusetts' Library for the Commonwealth [ 5 ] (formerly library of last recourse ), [ 6 ] meaning all adult residents of the state are entitled to borrowing and research privileges, and the library ...
Boston Public Library was founded in 1852. The first Boston Public Library location opened in 1854 in two rooms in the Adams School on Mason Street. Because the Mason Street space was small and poorly lit, a new building opened at 55 Boylston Street in 1858. It cost $365,000 to build and held 70,000 volumes.
The center manages the geographic collections of the Boston Public Library as well as material collected by Norman B. Leventhal during his lifetime, known as the Mapping Boston Collection. Its holdings stretch chronologically from the 15th century to the present, and geographically cover the world, with a focus on Boston and New England.
Boston Public Library: A Centennial History (Harvard University Press, 1956) Wiegand, Wayne A. Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces in the Rural Heartland, 1876–1956 (University of Iowa Press, 2011) Wiegand, Wayne A. A Part of Our Lives: A History of the American Public Library (Oxford University press, 2015).
Conditions of Blakes' circulating library, no.1 Cornhill, 1800 Ad for Suffolk Circulating Library, corner Brattle and Court St., 1822 Ad for Franklin Circulating Library, Court St., 1824 Mercantile Library Association, Merchants Hall, corner Congress and Water St., 1820s-1830s Ad for S.H. Parker's circulating library, Washington St., 1832 Portrait of Elizabeth Peabody, proprietor of foreign ...
According to James Wynne, Barton's library consisted of as many as 16,000 volumes, [7] though the Catalogue of the Barton Collection at the Boston Public Library suggests the collection numbered approximately 12,000 volumes at the time of its accession in 1873. [8] Detail of a letter from Thomas Pennant Barton to Thomas Rodd, dated May 13th, 1844.
He started his library career as a trustee (1867–1868), then superintendent (1868–1877) of the Boston Public Library. As a member of the Boston Brahmins, Winsor found an opportunity to engage in social reform while pursuing intellectual interests. He reflected the Brahmins' strong belief in self-help, uplift, and social progress.
the Boston Public Library, McKim Building, a branch of the Boston Public Library; Boston Athenaeum, one of the oldest independent proprietary libraries in the United States; Boston Library Society (1792-1939) Boston Medical Library, the largest academic medical library in the world. Combined with Harvard's medical collections, it is also known ...