Lottery tickets, 1811.

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Lottery tickets, 1811.

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Sheet of five printed tickets, nos. 3251-3255, for the Lexington Library Lottery, authorized by the State of Kentucky, and printed by T. Smith.

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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...