Search Results - "New York City"

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    Reading publics : New York City's public libraries, 1754-1911 / by Glynn, Tom, 1962-

    Published 2015
    Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Readers, Libraries, and New York City Before 1911 -- Chapter 1: The New York Society Library: Books, Authority, and Publics in Colonial and Early Republican New York -- Chapter 2: Books for a Reformed Republic: The Apprentices' Library in Antebellum New York -- Chapter 3: The Past in Print: History and the Market at the New-York Historical Society Library -- Chapter 4: The Biblical Library of the American Bible Society: Evangelicalism and the Evangelical Corporation Chapter 5: Commerce and Culture: Recreation and Self-Improvement in New York's Subscription Libraries -- Chapter 6: "Men of Leisure and Men of Letters": New York's Public Research Libraries -- Chapter 7: Scholars and Mechanics: Libraries and Higher Learning in Nineteenth-Century New York -- Chapter 8: New York's Free Circulating Libraries: The Mission of the Public Library in the Gilded Age -- Chapter 9: The Founding of the New York Public Library: Public and Private in the Progressive Era -- Conclusion: New York's Public Libraries and the Elusive Reading Publics -- Works Cited -- Notes.…”
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    Reading publics : New York City's public libraries, 1754-1911 / by Glynn, Tom, 1962-

    Published 2015
    Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Readers, Libraries, and New York City Before 1911 -- Chapter 1: The New York Society Library: Books, Authority, and Publics in Colonial and Early Republican New York -- Chapter 2: Books for a Reformed Republic: The Apprentices' Library in Antebellum New York -- Chapter 3: The Past in Print: History and the Market at the New-York Historical Society Library -- Chapter 4: The Biblical Library of the American Bible Society: Evangelicalism and the Evangelical Corporation Chapter 5: Commerce and Culture: Recreation and Self-Improvement in New York's Subscription Libraries -- Chapter 6: "Men of Leisure and Men of Letters": New York's Public Research Libraries -- Chapter 7: Scholars and Mechanics: Libraries and Higher Learning in Nineteenth-Century New York -- Chapter 8: New York's Free Circulating Libraries: The Mission of the Public Library in the Gilded Age -- Chapter 9: The Founding of the New York Public Library: Public and Private in the Progressive Era -- Conclusion: New York's Public Libraries and the Elusive Reading Publics -- Works Cited -- Notes.…”
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    Improved travel and transportation from New York City, 1800-1857

    Published 2000
    “…Improved travel and transportation from New York City 1800-1857-- North America, United States, map…”
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