Repository description, 1800-[ongoing].

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Repository description, 1800-[ongoing].

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Materials include records (ca. 1800-1906) of the Lexington Library Company; miscellaneous public library records (ca. 1900-1988); printed papers and manuscripts of various Lexingtonians, including Ida Withers Harrison and Samuel D. McCullough; several letters of author James Lane Allen; records (1897-1916) of the Caledonian Society of Lexington; a collection of photographs relating to historic Lexington and the city's development; and miscellaneous other materials concerning local history.

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Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives, Kentucky Guide Project Office

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Lexington Public Library (Lexington, Ky.)

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The Lexington Library Company (sometimes Association), was incorporated by the Kentucky state legislature in 1800. The company was formed of shareholders purchasing five-dollar shares and was the result of efforts begun in the mid-1790s to establish a collection to be used by Transylvania Seminary students. By 1800, however, the library's function was to serve the reading needs of its shareholders only. A "free" public library was authorized by the legislature in 1898 an...