Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368130552
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Annual Report of the Trustees of the Lenox Library
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368130552
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Annual Report of the Trustees of the Astor Library of the City of New-York
Author: Astor LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Annual Report of the trustees of the Astor Library of the city of New York
Author: Annual Report
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Librarians
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
New York: Art and Cultural Capital of the Gilded Age
Author: Margaret R. LasterPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351027565
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Fueled by a flourishing capitalist economy, undergirded by advancements in architectural design and urban infrastructure, and patronized by growing bourgeois and elite classes, New York’s built environment was dramatically transformed in the 1870s and 1880s. This book argues that this constituted the formative period of New York’s modernization and cosmopolitanism—the product of a vital self-consciousness and a deliberate intent on the part of its elite citizenry to create a world-class cultural metropolis reflecting the city’s economic and political preeminence. The interdisciplinary essays in this book examine New York’s late nineteenth-century evolution not simply as a question of its physical layout but also in terms of its radically new social composition, comprising the individuals, institutions, and organizations that played determining roles in the city’s cultural ascendancy.
Reading Publics
Author: Tom GlynnPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823262650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
On May 11, 1911, the New York Public Library opened its “marble palace for book lovers” on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. This was the city’s first public library in the modern sense, a tax-supported, circulating collection free to every citizen. Since before the Revolution, however, New York’s reading publics had access to a range of “public libraries” as the term was understood by contemporaries. In its most basic sense a public library in the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries simply meant a shared collection of books that was available to the general public and promoted the public good. From the founding in 1754 of the New York Society Library up to 1911, public libraries took a variety of forms. Some of them were free, charitable institutions, while others required a membership or an annual subscription. Some, such as the Biblical Library of the American Bible Society, were highly specialized; others, like the Astor Library, developed extensive, inclusive collections. What all the public libraries of this period had in common, at least ostensibly, was the conviction that good books helped ensure a productive, virtuous, orderly republic—that good reading promoted the public good. Tom Glynn’s vivid, deeply researched history of New York City’s public libraries over the course of more than a century and a half illuminates how the public and private functions of reading changed over time and how shared collections of books could serve both public and private ends. Reading Publics examines how books and reading helped construct social identities and how print functioned within and across groups, including but not limited to socioeconomic classes. The author offers an accessible while scholarly exploration of how republican and liberal values, shifting understandings of “public” and “private,” and the debate over fiction influenced the development and character of New York City’s public libraries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Reading Publics is an important contribution to the social and cultural history of New York City that firmly places the city’s early public libraries within the history of reading and print culture in the United States.
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Author: New York city, Astor librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Library
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Lenox LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Report of the New York Public Library for ...
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Librarians
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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