Tom Glynn: 1 book
Reading Publics
New York City's Public Libraries, 1754-1911
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
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...
