1855
Prints: Boston, Ma.: Places or Streets: G-N
GUSN-198655
"Mr. Champney, the artist, has presented us here with an accurate representation of the present City Library building in Mason Street, showing also the rear of the new Boston Theatre. This library was instituted in 1852, and the reading-room connected with it was opened to the public on the 20th of March, and for the circulation of books for home use on the 2d of May, 1854. The plan of the trustees embraces a reading-room and circulating library. The reading-room is furnished with files of all the leading American, and several of the foreign journals and reviews, while the public have access at all times to works of reference. The library is most admirably classified and catalogued on a system by which the librarian and his assistants can find any book in their possession at a few moments' notice. The plan of the catalogue system adopted here, originated with Dr. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, one of the trustees. There are now over 17,000 volumes in the library, and it is confidently anticipated that fourteen years hence, the number will be increased to 100,000."
libraries (buildings)
reading rooms
theaters (buildings)
streetscapes
exterior views
line engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)
Prints and Engravings Collection number PR301
1 engraving on newsprint
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
GC002.01.MA.3800.006
5 x 9.5 (HxW)(inches)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Champney, Benjamin, 1817-1907 (Artist)
line engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)
Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet, 1810-1874
Boston Public Library
Mason Street (Boston, Mass.)
Good
Item
Prints: Boston, Ma.: Places or Streets: G-N
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