Author: Adolf Bernhard Meyer

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781230146638

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...distinguished from a circulating library from which the books may be taken out. In the same year the erection of a temporary building on the site of the testator's residence in the northern part of the city was taken in hand, some rooms were rented for immediate use, and there was appointed a librarian, W. F. Poole, who for fourteen years had occupied a similar position in the public library of Chicago and was one of the leading librarians of America (among other things he founded in 1853 the Index to Periodical Literature which is still continued), and two other employees. Forty thousand dollars was appropriated for books and pamphlets. In the spring of 1888 some 14,000 volumes were installed in the provisional building, and the library was opened to the public. At the beginning of 1890 a removal was made to another provisional building not far from the first one and near the site on which it was intended to build the final structure. This was a one-storied, fireproof a W. L. Newberry, born in 1804; his ancestors came from England to America in 1630. He lived subsequent to 1833 as a banker in Chicago, possessed a fine library, belonged among others to the Chicago Board of Education, and was president of the Historical Society. From 1857, because of his health, he spent every winter in southern France. Not only is he renowned for his own magnificent benefaction which keeps his memory permanently green, but his example induced the foundation of the John Crerar Library in another part of the city (see p. 451). &See The Newberry Library, Chicago. Certificate of Incorporation and Incorporation Act, p. 13 (27 pp.). c Already in 1894 it had increased to $6,000,000, and as a great portion of it is invested in houses and lots it is...

Download or read book Studies of the Museums and Kindred Institutions of New York City, Albany, Buffalo, and Chicago; with Notes on Some European Institutions written by Adolf Bernhard Meyer and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...distinguished from a circulating library from which the books may be taken out. In the same year the erection of a temporary building on the site of the testator's residence in the northern part of the city was taken in hand, some rooms were rented for immediate use, and there was appointed a librarian, W. F. Poole, who for fourteen years had occupied a similar position in the public library of Chicago and was one of the leading librarians of America (among other things he founded in 1853 the Index to Periodical Literature which is still continued), and two other employees. Forty thousand dollars was appropriated for books and pamphlets. In the spring of 1888 some 14,000 volumes were installed in the provisional building, and the library was opened to the public. At the beginning of 1890 a removal was made to another provisional building not far from the first one and near the site on which it was intended to build the final structure. This was a one-storied, fireproof a W. L. Newberry, born in 1804; his ancestors came from England to America in 1630. He lived subsequent to 1833 as a banker in Chicago, possessed a fine library, belonged among others to the Chicago Board of Education, and was president of the Historical Society. From 1857, because of his health, he spent every winter in southern France. Not only is he renowned for his own magnificent benefaction which keeps his memory permanently green, but his example induced the foundation of the John Crerar Library in another part of the city (see p. 451). &See The Newberry Library, Chicago. Certificate of Incorporation and Incorporation Act, p. 13 (27 pp.). c Already in 1894 it had increased to $6,000,000, and as a great portion of it is invested in houses and lots it is...