Records, 1865-1980.

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Records, 1865-1980.

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Early records include books of membership certificates of the Brooklyn Library and the Mercantile Library Association, 1858-1900; circulation statistics of the Brooklyn Library, 1885-1903; accession book with a repair budget, 1918, of the Brooklyn Library; account book, 1850-1851; user statistics, 1904; "Case of Frank Dillon," 1909, concerning book thefts; also miscellaneous bills, fire insurance policies, reports, book lists, and Public Library exams, 1923-1938. Correspondence including a letter from Charles A. Cutter at the Boston Athenaeum, 1888, and several from the Brooklyn Engineers Club, 1899, concerning the use of a library room, and correspondence regarding personnel appointments.

12.4 cubic ft.

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New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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Brooklyn public library

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Collecting area: Brooklyn history. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155457439 The Brooklyn Ephemera Collection contains a wide variety of material, mainly memorabilia, donated to the Brooklyn Public Library in the 1960s during a program conducted by the Library to encourage local interest in the history of Brooklyn. Since most of the items are unrelated, the chief value of the collection is to provide a kaleidescopic glimpse of t...

Mercantile Library Association (Brooklyn, N.Y.)

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Boston Athenaeum

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The Boston Athenaeum was founded in 1807. Its present building on Beacon Hill, erected from 1847 to 1849, houses a library and an art collection. From the description of Boston Athenaeum records, 1854-1855. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557016 ...

Brooklyn Engineers' Club

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Engineering has been inextricably linked to New York State since the early 19th century, as it was the birthplace of professional engineering in the United States. The U.S. Military Academy at West Point, located 50 miles north of New York City along the Hudson River, offered civil engineering as an academic subject when it was founded in 1802. In 1835, Rensselaer Institute (now Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), also located along the Hudson River in Troy, N.Y., granted the first c...

Cutter, Charles A. (Charles Ammi), 1837-1903

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Boston Athenaeum librarian and library systematizer. From the description of Letters received, 1880-1883. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 166325294 Athenaeum librarian, 1869-1892. From the description of Letters : from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 1878. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 41479582 ...