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located in
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active in the 19th century. Included are
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,
academic libraries An academic library is a library that is attached to a higher education institution and serves two complementary purposes: to support the curriculum and the research of the university faculty and students. It is unknown how many academic librar ...
,
medical libraries A health or medical library is designed to assist physicians, health professionals, students, patients, consumers, medical researchers, and information specialists in finding health and scientific information to improve, update, assess, or evalu ...
, church libraries, government libraries,
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, and subscription libraries.


A

* Academy of Mt. St. Vincent library * Aguilar Free Library (est.1886) * Aldine ClubKing's handbook of New York City. 1893 * American Bible Society * American Bible Union *
American Congregational Union The American Congregational Union was formed in 1853 to promote Congregationalism in the United States Congregationalism in the United States consists of Protestant churches in the Reformed tradition that have a congregational form of church go ...
Norton's Literary and Educational Register for 1854 *
American Ethnological Society The American Ethnological Society (AES) is the oldest professional anthropological association in the United States. History of the American Ethnological Society Albert Gallatin and John Russell Bartlett founded the American Ethnological Societ ...
* American and Foreign Bible Society * American Geographical and Statistical Society * American Institute (est.1828) * American Institute of Mining Engineers Library * American Literary Association * American Museum of Natural History library * American Numismatic and Archaeological Society * American Seaman's Friend Society * American Society of Civil Engineers * American Society of Mechanical Engineers * Anglo-African Reading Room, Prince St. (est.1859) * Apprentices and Demilt Library,
General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York, was founded on November 17, 1785, by 22 men who gathered in Walter Heyer's public-house at No. 75 King Street (now Pine Street), one block from Wall Street, in Lower Manha ...
* Aschenbroedel Verein Library * Association of the Bar of the City of New York * Astor Library * William H. Atree's circulating library


B

* Bacon Literary Association * Bancroft Institute * Samuel Berrian's circulating library * Bowery Circulating Library; Caleb Bartlett * Boys' Free Reading RoomAppleton's Dictionary of New York and its vicinity
1898 * Broome Street Free Library


C

* Hocquet Caritat's circulating library * Cathedral Free Circulating Library * Catholic Club Library * Children's library * City Library * Clinton Place Female Seminary * College of Pharmacy of City of New York * College of Physicians and Surgeons * College of St. Francis Xavier * College of Veterinary Surgeons Library * College Settlement Library * James Collins' circulating library * Colored Home and Hospital Library * Colored Orphan Asylum Library * Columbia College * Cooper Institute * Courtland-Street Library; William Stodart


D

* De Witt Memorial Free Library


E

* Ecelectic Medical College Library * Episcopal Historical Society * Episcopal Theological Seminary * Equitable Life Assurance Social Law Library


F

* Five Points Mission * Francis' circulating library * Franklin Library; Mr. Lockwood * Free Academy * Free Circulating Library for the Blind


G

* Gaelic Society * Genealogical and Biographical Society Library * General Theological Seminary Library * German Hospital and Dispensary Library * A.T. Goodrich's circulating library * Grammar School no.21, Holbrook Library *
Grolier Club The Grolier Club is a private club and society of bibliophiles in New York City. Founded in January 1884, it is the oldest existing bibliophilic club in North America. The club is named after Jean Grolier de Servières, Viscount d'Aguisy, Tre ...
(est.1884)


H

* Harlem Law Library * Harlem Library * Health Department library * Helmich & Co.'s German circulating library * Horsfall's French circulating library * House of Detention for Witnesses library * House of Refuge


I

* I.O. of O.F. Library * Institute for the Deaf and Dumb * Institution for the Blind * Irving Literary Union * Italian Free Reading-Room and Library


J

* Juvenile Asylum


K

* Adolph Kirsten's German library


L

* La Salle Academy library * Lenox Library (est.1871) * Liter. Geselleschaft of Morrisania library * Lorraine library *
Lyceum of Natural History The New York Academy of Sciences (originally the Lyceum of Natural History) was founded in January 1817 as the Lyceum of Natural History. It is the fourth oldest scientific society in the United States. An independent, nonprofit organization wit ...


M

* Maimonides Library Association * Manhattan College Library * Maritime Exchange library * Masonic Library * Mechanical Engineers Library * Mechanics' Institute (est.1830) * Medical College and Hospital for Women library * Mercantile Library Association (est.1820) * Merchants' and Clerks' Library Association * Metropolis Law School library * Metropolitan Medical College *
Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...
library * Military Service Inst. library * Minerva circulating library; W.B. Gilley * John Montgomery's circulating library * Mott Memorial Medical and Surg. library * E. M. Murden's Circulating Library and Dramatic Repository


N

* New-York Athenaeum (est.1824)New York Annual Register. 1833 * New York City Library * New York City Lunatic Asylum *
New York Free Circulating Library The New York Free Circulating Library (NYFCL) was founded in 1879 and incorporated in 1880. Its aim was to supply free reading material and reading rooms to the people of New York City. Over its lifetime, it expanded from a single location to elev ...
*
New York Historical Society The New-York Historical Society is an American history museum and library in New York City, along Central Park West between 76th and 77th Streets, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The society was founded in 1804 as New York's first museum. ...
* New York Hospital * New York Law Institute * New York Law School library *
New York Medical College New York Medical College (NYMC or New York Med) is a private medical school in Valhalla, New York. Founded in 1860, it is a member of the Touro College and University System. NYMC offers advanced degrees through its three schools: the School o ...
* New York Normal College library * New York Port Society Library *
New York Public Library The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second largest public library in the United States (behind the Library of Congress ...
(est.1895) * New-York Sacred Music Society (est.1823) *
New York Society Library The New York Society Library (NYSL) is the oldest cultural institution in New York City. It was founded in 1754 by the New York Society as a subscription library. During the time when New York was the capital of the United States, it was the de ...
* New York State Colonization Society, Omacatl Society


O

* Odd Fellows' Library * Olivet Library * Joseph Osborn's circulating library


P

* Parthenon Circulating Library and Reading Room * Peck Memorial Library *
Players' Club The Players (often inaccurately called The Players Club) is a private social club founded in New York City by the noted 19th-century Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth. In 1888, Booth purchased an 1847 mansion at 16 Gramercy Park, reserved an ...
library * Post grad. med. school and hospital library * G.B. Powell's Book Store and Circulating Library, 134 BoweryA.E. Wright's Boston, New York, Philadelphia & Baltimore, commercial directory. 1840 * Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions * Printers' Free Library (est.1823) * Prison Association library * Produce Exchange library * Public School, 14th Ward * Public School (20th Ward) Library


R

* William Radde's German circulating library * Railroad Men's Building library * Riverside Free Library * Rutgers Female Institute


S

* St. Agnes' Free Library * St. Barnabas' Free Reading Room * St. George's Free Circulating Library * St. John's College library * St. Luke's Hospital * St. Mark's Memorial Chapel, free library * Seamen's library, Pike St. * Seamen's Friend Society Library * Spingler Institute (est.1849), Union Square * John Stagner's circulating libraryNew York City directory for 1842 and 1843


T

* Teacher's College, Bryson Library * Trow Directory library


U

* Union Theological Seminary * University Club Library library *
University of the City of New York New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...
* University Settlement library (est.1892)


W

* Webster Free Circulating Library (est.1894) * Washington Heights Free Library, Amsterdam Ave. * Washington Institute * Westermann's German circulating library * T. Whybrew's circulating library * Helen Williams' circulating library * Woman's Library, no.19 Clinton Place * Women's Free Reading-Room and Library, no.16 Clinton Place * Women's Medical College of New York * Workingmen's Free Reading-Room and Library


Y

*
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* YMCA * YWCA library (est.1870)


See also

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List of New York Public Library Branches The New York Public Library system includes libraries in Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island. This page is organized by borough, and alphabetically. The boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens are supported by their own separate library systems. Res ...


References


Further reading

* * 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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