Mercantile Library may refer to: *

New York Mercantile Library The Center for Fiction, originally called the New York Mercantile Library, is a not-for-profit organization in New York City, with offices at 15 Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Prior to their move in early 2018, The Center for Fiction ...

(1820), former name of the Center for Fiction, New York City, New York *

Mercantile Library Association (Boston, Massachusetts) The Mercantile Library Association (1820-1952) of Boston was an organization dedicated to operating a subscription library, reading room and lecture series. Members included James T. Fields and Edwin Percy Whipple. Although the association had a re ...

(1820) *

Mercantile Library of Cincinnati The Mercantile Library of Cincinnati is a membership library located in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. The name of the library refers not to the type of items in its collection but to the forty-five merchants and clerks who founded it on April 18, 183 ...

(1835), Cincinnati, Ohio, also known as Young Men's Mercantile Library * St. Louis Mercantile Library (1846), University of Missouri–St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri *

Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco The San Francisco Mercantile Library Association (est. 1852) was a civic group organized in San Francisco, California, to "stimulate a generous rivalry in mental culture, by rendering it the fashion to read and converse on literary topics." Its foun ...

(1852), San Francisco, California, absorbed by San Francisco Mechanics' Institute in 1906 *

Saint Paul Public Library The Saint Paul Public Library is a library system serving the residents of Saint Paul, Minnesota, in the United States. The library system includes a Central Library, twelve branch locations, and a bookmobile. It is a member of the Metropolitan ...

(1857), Saint Paul, Minnesota *

Brooklyn Public Library The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) is the public library system of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is the sixteenth largest public library system in the United States by holding and the seventh by number of visitors. Like the two othe ...

(1857), Brooklyn Public Library Business Library, New York *

Philadelphia Mercantile Library The Mercantile Library Company of Philadelphia was established in 1821.John Thomas Scharf, Thompson Westcott. History of Philadelphia, 1609–1884, v.2. 1884. Staff included John Edmands. In 1989, the Free Library of Philadelphia absorbed the co ...

(1866), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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