List of libraries in 19th-century Boston

This list includes libraries located in Boston, Massachusetts, active in the 19th century. Included are reading-rooms, circulating libraries, subscription libraries, public libraries, academic libraries, medical libraries, children's libraries, church libraries, and government libraries.

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 library, West St., 19th century
Boston Public Library, Boylston St., mid-19th century
Boston Public Library, Boylston St., mid-19th century
Boston Athenaeum, Beacon St., 1850s
West Church, Lynde St., West End, mid-19th century
Catalogue of S. Urbino's foreign circulating library, 19th century (American Antiquarian Society)
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Horticultural Hall, Tremont St., mid-19th century
Library in house of George Ticknor and his daughter Anna Ticknor, Park St., Boston, ca.1890s
"Book railway" used in Boston Public Library, 1895. Made by Lamson Consolidated Store Service Company, of Boston
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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 William Jones Rhees (1859), Manual of public libraries, institutions, and societies, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., OCLC 3991453, OL 6937678M
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 Massachusetts Census: 1875. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Boston Directory ... 1848.
  4. Boston Directory. 1813
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Boston almanac and business directory: 1878
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Boston Almanac and Directory ... 1876.
  7. Catalogue of W.P. & L. Blake's circulating library at the Boston Book-Store, no.1, Cornhill (Boston: William P. and Lemuel Blake, 1800)
  8. Also called the "Circulating and Consulting Library for the Officers and Employees of the Boston and Albany Railroad Company;" cf. "Railroad Libraries." Journal of social science: containing the Transactions of the American Association, no.2. 1870
  9. Boston Mirror, Dec. 17, 1808
  10. Boston Patriot, March 31, 1810
  11. 1 2 Boston Directory. 1810
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Charles K. Bolton (Feb 1907). "Circulating Libraries in Boston, 1765-1865". Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts 11. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
  13. Boston Directory. 1858
  14. 1 2 3 Boston Directory. 1850
  15. Boston Directory. 1805
  16. Boston Directory. 1818
  17. Catalog of Books in the Columbian Social Library. Boston: 1818
  18. Bowen's Picture of Boston, 3rd ed. 1838.
  19. 1 2 3 David Kaser (1980), A book for a sixpence, Pittsburgh: Beta Phi Mu, ISBN 0-910230-14-5, OL 4402878M, 0910230145
  20. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Boston Directory ... 1868.
  21. Columbian Centinel, Feb. 12, 1823
  22. Boston Almanac. 1847
  23. "Mariner's House, North Square." Dearborn's Reminiscences of Boston. Boston: N. Dearborn, 1851
  24. Goodrich. The family tourist. 1848
  25. ca.1820 advertisement in: American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1
  26. Boston Directory. 1852
  27. Catalogue of the library of Rev. Thomas Prince: former pastor of Old South Church. Presented by him to the Old South Church and Society. Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1846
  28. Independent Chronicle, May 17, 1802; cf. Bolton
  29. Boston Daily Advertiser, July 17, 1822
  30. Boston Daily Advertiser, Aug. 23, 1815
  31. Catalog of the Washington Circulating Library, Boston. 1817
  32. Catalog of the Washington Circulating Library, Boston. 1833

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