List of libraries in 19th-century New York City
This list includes libraries located in New York, New York, active in the 19th century.[1] Included are public libraries, academic libraries, medical libraries, church libraries, government libraries, circulating libraries, and subscription libraries.
- A
- B
- Bacon Literary Association[5]
- Bancroft Institute[5]
- Samuel Berrian's circulating library[13]
- Bowery Circulating Library; Caleb Bartlett[14]
- Boys' Free Reading Room[15]
- Broome Street Free Library[3]
- C
- Hocquet Caritat's circulating library
- Cathedral Free Circulating Library[16]
- Catholic Club Library[3]
- Children's library[15]
- City Library[3]
- Clinton Place Female Seminary[5]
- College of Pharmacy of City of New York[3]
- College of Physicians and Surgeons[5]
- College of St. Francis Xavier[3][5]
- College of Veterinary Surgeons Library[3]
- College Settlement Library[3]
- James Collins' circulating library[14]
- Colored Home and Hospital Library[3]
- Colored Orphan Asylum Library[3]
- Columbia College[5]
- Cooper Institute[5]
- Courtland-Street Library; William Stodart[17]
- D
- De Witt Memorial Free Library[3]
- E
- Ecelectic Medical College Library[3]
- Episcopal Historical Society[5]
- Episcopal Theological Seminary[5]
- Equitable Life Assurance Social Law Library[3]
- F
- Five Points Mission[15]
- Francis' circulating library[6]
- Franklin Library; Mr. Lockwood[14]
- Free Academy[5]
- Free Circulating Library for the Blind[4]
- G
- Gaelic Society[4]
- Genealogical and Biograpical Society Library[3]
- General Theological Seminary Library[3]
- German Hospital and Dispensary Library[3]
- A.T. Goodrich's circulating library[14]
- Grammar School no.21, Holbrook Library
- Grolier Club (est.1884)
- H
- Harlem Law Library[4]
- Harlem Library[3]
- Health Department library[3]
- Helmich & Co.'s German circulating library[18]
- Horsfall's French circulating library[6]
- House of Detention for Witnesses library[3]
- House of Refuge[5]
- I
- I.O. of O.F. Library[19]
- Institute for the Deaf and Dumb[5]
- Institution for the Blind[3][5]
- Irving Literary Union[5][20]
- Italian Free Reading-Room and Library[15]
- J
- K
- Adolph Kirsten's German library[21]
- L
- M
- Maimonides Library Association[3][22]
- Manhattan College Library[3]
- Maritime Exchange library[4]
- Masonic Library[4]
- Mechanical Engineers Library[3]
- Mechanics' Institute (est.1830)[5][23]
- Medical College and Hospital for Women library[3]
- Mercantile Library Association (est.1820)[5]
- Merchants' and Clerks' Library Association[5]
- Metropolis Law School library[3]
- Metropolitan Medical College[5]
- Metropolitan Museum of Art library[3]
- Military Service Inst. library[3]
- Minerva circulating library; W.B. Gilley[14]
- John Montgomery's circulating library[14]
- Mott Memorial Medical and Surg. library[3]
- E. M. Murden's Circulating Library and Dramatic Repository[14]
- N
- O
- Odd Fellows' Library[4]
- Olivet Library[3]
- Joseph Osborn's circulating library[27]
- P
- Parthenon Circulating Library and Reading Room; S.C. Schenk[14]
- Peck Memorial Library[3]
- Players' Club library[4]
- Post grad. med. school and hospital library[3]
- G.B. Powell's Book Store and Circulating Library, 134 Bowery[28]
- Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions[3][5]
- Printers' Free Library (est.1823)[5]
- Prison Association library[3]
- Produce Exchange library[4]
- Public School, 14th Ward[5]
- Public School (20th Ward) Library[5]
- R
- William Radde's German circulating library[28]
- Railroad Men's Building library[3]
- Riverside Free Library[3]
- Rutgers Female Institute[5]
- S
- St. Agnes' Free Library[3]
- St. Barnabas' Free Reading Room[3]
- St. George's Free Circulating Library[3]
- St. John's College library[3]
- St. Luke's Hospital[5]
- St. Mark's Memorial Chapel, free library[15]
- Seamen's library, Pike St.[15]
- Seamen's Friend Society Library[4][5]
- Spingler Institute (est.1849), Union Square[5]
- John Stagner's circulating library[29]
- T
- Teacher's College, Bryson Library[3]
- Trow Directory library[3]
- U
- W
- Webster Free Circulating Library (est.1894)[3]
- Washington Heights Free Library, Amsterdam Ave.[3][15]
- Washington Institute[5]
- Westermann's German circulating library[6]
- T. Whybrew's circulating library[14]
- Helen Williams' circulating library[28][29]
- Woman's Library, no.19 Clinton Place[3][15]
- Women's Free Reading-Room and Library, no.16 Clinton Place[15]
- Women's Medical College of New York[3]
- Workingmen's Free Reading-Room and Library[15]
- Y
References
- ^ Pre-19th century libraries in New York included, for example, the commercial circulating library of Garrat Noel, bookseller, ca.1760s
- ^ Library Journal, 1887
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk Weston Flint (1893), Statistics of Public Libraries in the United States and Canada, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, OL20512177M
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n King's handbook of New York City. 1893
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax William Jones Rhees (1859), Manual of public libraries, institutions, and societies, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., OCLC 3991453, OL6937678M
- ^ a b c d Norton's Literary and Educational Register for 1854
- ^ Elizabeth McHenry. "'An Association of Kindred Spirits': Black Readers and their Reading Rooms." Institutions of Reading: the Social Life of Libraries in the United States. Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007
- ^ http://www.generalsociety.org/library/default.asp
- ^ Tom Glynn. Books for a reformed republic: the apprentices' library of New York City, 1820-1865. Libraries & Culture 34.4 (Fall 1999)
- ^ Supplement to the Astor Library Catalogue. NY: 1866
- ^ Edwards, Edward (1869), Free town libraries, their formation, management, and history, London: Trübner & co., OL14008658M
- ^ New York City directory for 1842 and 1843
- ^ Longworth's American almanac, New-York register and city directory. 1808
- ^ a b c d e f g h i James Hardie (1827), The description of the city of New York, NY: Samuel Marks, http://books.google.com/books?id=G0M6AAAAMAAJ
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Appleton's Dictionary of New York and its vicinity. 1898
- ^ O'Rourke, M. M. "History of the Cathedral Free Circulating Library of New York City (1887-1905)." Catholic Literary World 25 (1954): 115-19.
- ^ New York Annual Register. 1833
- ^ Advertisement in: E. Porter Belden. New York, past, present, and future: comprising a history of the city of New York, a description of its present condition, and an estimate of its future increase. NY: Putnam, 1849
- ^ Doggett's New York City Directory. 1848
- ^ "Irving Literary Union." New York Times, Dec. 2, 1852
- ^ Doggett's New York City Directory. 1848
- ^ Trow's New York City Directory. 1857
- ^ http://www.generalsociety.org/mi/default.asp
- ^ a b New York Annual Register. 1833
- ^ "Reading for the people." New York Times, March 7, 1890
- ^ http://nyli.org/home.htm
- ^ Longworth's American almanac, New-York register and city directory]. 1808
- ^ a b c A.E. Wright's Boston, New York, Philadelphia & Baltimore, commercial directory. 1840
- ^ a b New York City directory for 1842 and 1843
Further reading
- James Hardie (1827), The description of the city of New York, NY: Samuel Marks, http://books.google.com/books?id=G0M6AAAAMAAJ
- E. Porter Belden. "Literature, Science, and Taste." New York, past, present, and future: comprising a history of the city of New York, a description of its present condition, and an estimate of its future increase. NY: Putnam, 1849
- Libraries in New York City. Norton's Literary and Educational Register for 1854.
- "New York (City): Free Circulating Libraries." American annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year 1886. NY: Appleton & Co., 1889
- "Libraries and Reading Rooms." King's handbook of New York City, 2nd ed. 1893.
- "Libraries of New York." James Grant Wilson. The memorial history of the City of New-York: from its first settlement to the year 1892, Volume 4. New York History Co., 1893
- Statistics of New York Libraries for 1894. State Library Bulletin, June 1895
- "Libraries in New York City." Public Libraries 1:7, Nov. 1896
- "Libraries of the City of New York." Libraries of Greater New York. NY: New York Library Club, 1902
- Hedbavny, L. "Some Leisure-Time Organizations in New York City, 1830-1870: Clubs, Lyceums, and Libraries." Master's thesis, New York University, 1952.
- Harold Augenbraum. New York's Oldest Public Libraries. RBM 1 no2 (2000), 145-60
- T. Glynn. Books in the public sphere: New York libraries and the culture-building enterprise (dissertation). Auburn University, NY.
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