This list includes libraries located in New York City active in the 19th century. [1] Included are public libraries, academic libraries, medical libraries, church libraries, government libraries, circulating libraries, and subscription libraries.
A
- Academy of Mt. St. Vincent library [3]
- Aguilar Free Library (est.1886) [3]
- Aldine Club [4]
- American Bible Society [3] [5]
- American Bible Union [5]
- American Congregational Union [6]
- American Ethnological Society [5]
- American and Foreign Bible Society [5]
- American Geographical and Statistical Society [3] [5]
- American Institute (est.1828) [3] [5]
- American Institute of Mining Engineers Library [3]
- American Literary Association [5]
- American Museum of Natural History library [3]
- American Numismatic and Archaeological Society [4]
- American Seaman's Friend Society [3]
- American Society of Civil Engineers [4]
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers [4]
- Anglo-African Reading Room, Prince St. (est.1859) [7]
- Apprentices and Demilt Library, General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York [5] [8] [9]
- Aschenbroedel Verein Library [3]
- Association of the Bar of the City of New York [3]
- Astor Library [5] [10] [11]
- William H. Atree's circulating library [12]
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 Biographical 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
- Juvenile Asylum [5]
K
- Adolph Kirsten's German library [21]
L
- La Salle Academy library [3]
- Lenox Library (est.1871)
- Liter. Geselleschaft of Morrisania library [3]
- Lorraine library [15]
- Lyceum of Natural History [5]
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
- New-York Athenaeum (est.1824) [5] [24]
- New York City Library [5]
- New York City Lunatic Asylum [5]
- New York Free Circulating Library [3] [25]
- New York Historical Society [5]
- New York Hospital [3] [5]
- New York Law Institute [5] [26]
- New York Law School library [3]
- New York Medical College [5]
- New York Normal College library [3]
- New York Port Society Library [4]
- New York Public Library (est.1895)
- New-York Sacred Music Society (est.1823) [24]
- New York Society Library
- New York State Colonization Society, Omacatl Society [5]
O
P
- Parthenon Circulating Library and Reading Room [14] [28]
- 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 [29]
- 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 [29]
- 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 [30]
T
U
- Union Theological Seminary [5]
- University Club Library library [3]
- University of the City of New York [5]
- University Settlement library (est.1892) [3]
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 [29] [30]
- 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
- YMCA of Greater New York [5]
- YMCA [5]
- YWCA library (est.1870) [3]
See also
References
- ^ Pre-19th century libraries in New York included, for example, the commercial circulating library of Garrat Noel, bookseller, c. 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, OL 20512177M
- ^ 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, OL 6937678M
- ^ 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
- ^ "The General Society || Library". Archived from the original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2010-12-22.
- ^ 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., OL 14008658M
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ "Mechanics' Institute". The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. Archived from the original on March 3, 2013. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
- ^ a b New York Annual Register. 1833
- ^ "Reading for the people." New York Times, March 7, 1890
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- ^ Catalogue of the Parthenon Circulating Library and Reading Rooms. New York: Charles S. Francis. 1834.
- ^ 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
- 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.
External links
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- New York Public Library. Photo of Aguilar Free Circulating Library East Broadway, Reference Room
- New York Public Library. Photo of New York Free Circulating Library, Branch no. 1, 1899
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