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.
- A
- Adjutant-General's Library[1]
- Almshouse Library[2]
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences Library[1][2]
- American Baptist Union Library[2]
- American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Library,[1][2] Mission House, Pemberton Square
- American Institute of Instruction Library[1][2]
- American Peace Society Library[2]
- American Statistical Association Library[1][2]
- American Unitarian Association[1]
- Mary Ashley, no.124 Charles St.[3]
- Asylum and Farm School Library[2]
- B
- Backup's Circulating Library[2]
- Luke Baker's circulating library, no.69 Court St.[4]
- Berkeley Circulating Library[5]
- Bigelow School Library[2]
- Bixby's Circulating Library;[2] L.W. Bixby, Washington St.[6]
- William Pinson Blake and Lemuel Blake, circulating library at the Boston Book-Store, no.1, Cornhill[7]
- Board of Trade Library[1][2]
- Boston and Albany Railroad Library (est.1868)[8]
- Boston Art Club Library[2]
- Boston Athenaeum
- Boston Circulating Library, no.3 School St.; E. Penniman Jr.;[9] no.5 Cornhill-Square[10]
- Boston City Hospital Library[2]
- Boston College Library[2]
- Boston Library Society[2]
- Boston Lunatic Hospital Library[2]
- Boston Medical Library (1805-1826)[11]
- Boston Medical Library (est. 1875)
- Boston Public Library
- Boston Society for Medical Improvement[1]
- Boston Society of Natural History Library[1][2]
- Boston Society of the New Jerusalem Church Library[2]
- Boston Theological Library[2][11]
- Boston Turnverein Library[2]
- Boston University
- Boston Young Men's Christian Union Library,[2] no.20 Boylston[6]
- Bowditch Library[1]
- Bowdoin Literary Association[1]
- Boylston Library[12]
- Brattle Square Church Library[2]
- Broadway Circulating Library[2]
- Bromfield Street Church Library[2]
- Eliza Brown, circulating library[13]
- Bulfinch Place Chapel Library[2]
- Burnham & Bros., no.60 Cornhill;[14] Thomas Burnham, Perry Burnham[12]
- Kezia Butler, no.82 Newbury Street[12][15]
- C
- Campbell's Circulating Library[2]
- Carney Hospital Library[2]
- Carter's Circulating Library[2][12]
- Callender's Library, School St.; also known as the Shakespeare Library; Charles Callender, H.G. Callender[3][12][16]
- Charlestown High School Library[2]
- Christ Church Library[2]
- Christian Unity Library[2]
- Church Home for Orphans Library[2]
- Church of the Advent Library[2]
- City Point Circulating Library[2]
- Clarendon Library, Clarendon St.[6]
- W.B. Clarke's circulating library[12]
- Columbian Circulating Library, no.43 Cornhill
- Columbian Social Library (est.1813), Boylston Hall[17][18]
- Comer's Commercial College[1]
- Congregational Library,[2] corner of Beacon and Somerset[1][6]
- Consumptives' Home Library[2]
- D
- Deaf Mute Library Association[2]
- Democratic reading room, corner Congress St. and Congress Sq.[3]
- Dorchester Athenaeum Library[2]
- Dramatic Fund Association[1]
- J.H. Duclos & Bro., no.57 Warren St.[6]
- E
- F
- Caroline Fanning[19]
- Farrer's Circulating Library[2]
- First Christian Church Library[2]
- First Universalist Church Library[2]
- Frederick Fletcher, no.55 Meridian, East Boston[20]
- Franklin Circulating Library, no.69 Court St.[21]
- Franklin Typographical Society Library[1][2]
- G
- Gate of Heaven Church Library[2]
- Library of the General Court[1]
- General Theological Library (est.1860);[2][12] no.12 West St.[6]
- Gill's Circulating Library[2]
- Good Samaritan Church Library[2]
- Grand Lodge of Masons Library[2]
- Grant & Brown, no.873 Washington St.[6]
- Guild Library of Church of the Advent[2]
- H
- Halliday's Circulating Library, West St.[2][5]
- Hancock Library, 42 Hancock; A. Boyden[22]
- Handel and Haydn Library[1]
- Harvard Chapel Library[2]
- Harvard Musical Library[2]
- Medical College of Harvard University Library[2]
- C.W. Holbrook's circulating library; no.88 Dover[6]
- Holy Trinity Church Library[2]
- Home for Aged Women Library[2]
- House of Correction Library[2]
- House of Industry Library[2]
- House of Reformation Library[2]
- J
- K
- L
- Ladies Circulating Library, Washington St.; N. Nutting, proprietor[19]
- Lawrence Association Library[2]
- R.L. Learned's circulating library, Tremont St.[5]
- Lincoln School Library[2]
- Lindsay's Circulating Library;[2] George W. Lindsey, Washington St.[20]
- Liscomb's Circulating Library[2]
- Loring's Circulating Library;[2] Loring's Select Library, Washington St.;[20] A.K. Loring[12]
- A.F. Low's circulating library, Meridian St.[5]
- Lowe's Circulating Library[2]
- M
- Marine Board of Underwriters' Library[2]
- Mariners' Exchange reading room, no.1 Lewis[20]
- Mariner's House, North Square[23]
- Thomas Marsh's circulating library, Beach St.[5]
- Massachusetts College of Pharmacy[1]
- Massachusetts Historical Society
- Massachusetts Horticultural Society Library[2]
- Massachusetts Hospital[1]
- Massachusetts New Church Union Library[2]
- Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-minded Youth[1]
- Massachusetts Society for Promotion of Agriculture[1]
- Massachusetts State Library
- Massachusetts State Prison Library[2]
- Massachusetts Teachers' Association[1]
- Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society Library[2]
- Mayhew and Baker's Juvenile Circulating Library, no.208 Washington St.[12]
- McGrath's Circulating Library[2]
- Mechanic Apprentices Library Association[2]
- J.O. Mendum's circulating library, Tremont St.[5]
- Mercantile Library Association Library[2]
- Merchants Exchange reading room, Merchants Exchange building, State St.;[24] "basement, Old State House"[20]
- Merrill's Circulating Library;[2] C.H. Merrill, no.1575 Washington St.[6]
- Methodist Episcopal Church Library[2]
- Catherine Moore's circulating library, no.436 Washington St.[3][14]
- Mount Vernon Church Library[2]
- Mount Vernon School for Young Ladies[1]
- Munroe & Francis, juvenile library, no.4 Cornhill[25]
- Musical Society Library[1][2]
- N
- New England Conservatory of Music Library[2]
- New England Female Medical College[1]
- New England Historic Genealogical Society[2]
- New England Hospital Library[2]
- New England Methodist Historical Society[1]
- Norcross School Library[2]
- North End Circulating Library, no.123 Hanover St.; Thomas Hiller Jr.[3][26]
- Notre Dame Academy Library[2]
- O
- Odd Fellows' Library[2]
- Old Colony Chapel Library[2]
- Osgood's Circulating Library[2]
- P
- Paine's Circulating Library[2]
- Samuel H. Parker's circulating library
- H.B. Payne & Co.'s circulating library[5]
- Elizabeth Peabody's foreign circulating library, no.13 West St.[3]
- William Pelham's circulating library, no.59 Cornhill
- Penitent Female Refuge Society Library[2]
- F.W. Perkins' circulating library[5]
- Library of Perkins Institution for the Blind[1][2]
- Pioneer Circulating Library[2]
- Prince Library[27]
- Q
- Quinn's Circulating Library[2]
- R
- Lydia Reed[19]
- Republican Institution[1]
- Republican Reading Room, Bromfield St.[20]
- E.R. Rich & Son; no.477 West Broadway[6]
- Roxbury Athenaeum Library[2]
- Roxbury High School Library[2]
- S
- Sage's Circulating Library;[2] William Sage, no.371 Tremont[6]
- Sailors Home Library[2]
- School of Technology Library[2]
- Second Methodist Church Library[2]
- W.F. & M.H. Shattuck, no.106 Main[6]
- Shawmut Avenue Baptist Church Library[2]
- Shawmut Mission Library[2]
- Social Law Library[2]
- Society to Encourage Studies at Home
- South End Circulating Library[2]
- Mary Sprague's circulating library, no.9 Milk St.[12][28]
- St. Francis de Sales Church Library[2]
- St. Joseph Circulating Library[2]
- St. Mary's Young Men's Sodality Library[2]
- St. Stephen's Church Library[2]
- State Agricultural Library[2]
- Stoughton Street Church Library[2]
- Suffolk Circulating Library; corner of Court and Brattle St.; N.S. Simpkins, J. Simpkins[29]
- Sumner library, no.6 Winthrop block, East Boston[20]
T
- Teuthorn's Circulating Library;[2] Julius Teuthorn, no.10 Beach[6]
- George Ticknor's private library, no.8 Park St.
- Toll-Gate Circulating Library,[2] no.665 East Broadway[5][6]
- D.A. Tompkins, no.127 Hanover St.[14]
- Treadwell Library, Massachusetts General Hospital[2]
- U
- Union Circulating Library, no.4 Cornhill, corner of Water St.;[30] William Blagrove
- Union Mission Church Library[2]
- Unitarian Association Library[2]
- S.R. Urbino, foreign circulating library
- V
- W
- Walker's Circulating Library[2]
- J.B. Walker, no.1392 Tremont[6]
- Thomas O. Walker, no.68 Cornhill[3][5][12]
- Warren Street Chapel Library[2]
- Washington Circulating Library, no.38 Newbury St.[31]
- Washington Circulating Library, no.11 School St.[32]
- Washingtonian Home Library[2]
- West Boston Library, Cambridge St.[12]
- West Church Library[2]
- West Roxbury Free library, Centre St.[6]
- West Roxbury High School Library[2]
- Whig reading room, no.144 Washington St.[3]
- Winkley & Boyd's Central library[20]
- Workingmen's Reading Room
- Y
- Boston Young Men's Christian Association Library (YMCA),[2] Tremont Temple[1][20]
- Young Men's Christian Union[1]
- Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), no.68 Warrenton[6]
- Young Men's Working Association Library[2]
- Z
- Zion Church Library[2]
References
- ^ 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 William Jones Rhees (1859), Manual of public libraries, institutions, and societies, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., OCLC 3991453, OL 6937678M
- ^ 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 bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr cs ct cu cv cw cx cy cz da db dc dd de df dg dh di dj dk dl dm dn do dp dq dr ds dt du dv dw Massachusetts Census: 1875. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Boston Directory ... 1848.
- ^ Boston Directory. 1813
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Boston almanac and business directory: 1878
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Boston Almanac and Directory ... 1876.
- ^ Catalogue of W.P. & L. Blake's circulating library at the Boston Book-Store, no.1, Cornhill (Boston: William P. and Lemuel Blake, 1800)
- ^ 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
- ^ Boston Mirror, Dec. 17, 1808
- ^ Boston Patriot, March 31, 1810
- ^ a b Boston Directory. 1810
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Charles K. Bolton (Feb 1907). "Circulating Libraries in Boston, 1765-1865". Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. 11. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
- ^ Boston Directory. 1858
- ^ a b c Boston Directory. 1850
- ^ Boston Directory. 1805
- ^ Boston Directory. 1818
- ^ Catalog of Books in the Columbian Social Library. Boston: 1818
- ^ Bowen's Picture of Boston, 3rd ed. 1838.
- ^ a b c David Kaser (1980), A book for a sixpence, Pittsburgh: Beta Phi Mu, ISBN 0-910230-14-5, OL 4402878M, 0910230145
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Boston Directory ... 1868.
- ^ Columbian Centinel, Feb. 12, 1823
- ^ Boston Almanac. 1847
- ^ "Mariner's House, North Square." Dearborn's Reminiscences of Boston. Boston: N. Dearborn, 1851
- ^ Goodrich. The family tourist. 1848
- ^ ca.1820 advertisement in: American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1
- ^ Boston Directory. 1852
- ^ 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
- ^ Independent Chronicle, May 17, 1802; cf. Bolton
- ^ Boston Daily Advertiser, July 17, 1822
- ^ Boston Daily Advertiser, Aug. 23, 1815
- ^ Catalog of the Washington Circulating Library, Boston. 1817
- ^ Catalog of the Washington Circulating Library, Boston. 1833
Further reading
- Bacon's dictionary of Boston. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. 1886.
- Charles K. Bolton (April 1909). "Social Libraries in Boston". Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.
- Jesse Hauk Shera (1949), Foundations of the public library, Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, OCLC 575422
External links
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- Princeton University. Davies Project. American Libraries before 1876.