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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 ...
The Mercantile Library Association (1820-1952) of Boston was an organization dedicated to operating a subscription library, reading room and lecture series. Members included James T. Fields and Edwin Percy Whipple. [1] Although the association had a relatively long history, its heyday occurred in the mid-19th century, particularly the 1840s and ...
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 ...
The 2nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. [1] Major George H. Gordon [ note 1 ] (later Brigadier General ), a West Point graduate and veteran of the Mexican–American War , organized the unit's recruitment and formation.
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 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.
Benjamin Guild's circulating library, Boston [5] King's Chapel [6] [7] William Martin's Circulating Library, Boston [8] [9] Massachusetts Historical Library, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston [10] Massachusetts Medical Society [11] [12] John Mein's Circulating Library, Boston [13] New England Library, collected by Thomas Prince [14] [15 ...
Public libraries in the American Colonies can be traced back to 1656, when a Boston merchant named Captain Robert Keayne willed his collection of books to the town. [1]Church collections of books used by the public served as early versions of libraries in New England around the 18th century.