This list includes libraries located in New York City active in the 19th century.Pre-19th century libraries in New York included, for example, the commercial circulating library of Garrat Noel, bookseller, c. 1760s Included are public libraries, academic libraries, medical libraries, church libraries, government libraries, circulating libraries, and subscription libraries.

A Academy of Mt. St. Vincent library Aguilar Free Library (est.1886) Aldine ClubKing's handbook of New York City. 1893 American Bible Society American Bible Union American Congregational UnionNorton's Literary and Educational Register for 1854 American Ethnological Society American and Foreign Bible Society American Geographical and Statistical Society American Institute (est.1828) American Institute of Mining Engineers Library American Literary Association American Museum of Natural History library American Numismatic and Archaeological Society American Seaman's Friend Society American Society of Civil Engineers American Society of Mechanical Engineers Anglo-African Reading Room, Prince St. (est.1859)Elizabeth McHenry. "'An Association of Kindred Spirits': Black Readers and their Reading Rooms." Institutions of Reading: the Social Life of Libraries in the United States. Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007 Apprentices and Demilt Library, General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New YorkTom Glynn. Books for a reformed republic: the apprentices' library of New York City, 1820-1865. Libraries & Culture 34.4 (Fall 1999) Aschenbroedel Verein Library Association of the Bar of the City of New York Astor LibrarySupplement to the Astor Library Catalogue. NY: 1866 William H. Atree's circulating libraryNew York City directory for 1842 and 1843

B Bacon Literary Association Bancroft Institute Samuel Berrian's circulating libraryLongworth's American almanac, New-York register and city directory. 1808 Bowery Circulating Library; Caleb Bartlett Boys' Free Reading RoomAppleton's Dictionary of New York and its vicinity. 1898 Broome Street Free Library

C Hocquet Caritat's circulating library Cathedral Free Circulating LibraryO'Rourke, M. M. "History of the Cathedral Free Circulating Library of New York City (1887-1905)." Catholic Literary World 25 (1954): 115-19. Catholic Club Library Children's library City Library Clinton Place Female Seminary College of Pharmacy of City of New York College of Physicians and Surgeons College of St. Francis Xavier College of Veterinary Surgeons Library College Settlement Library James Collins' circulating library Colored Home and Hospital Library Colored Orphan Asylum Library Columbia College Cooper Institute Courtland-Street Library; William StodartNew York Annual Register. 1833

D

De Witt Memorial Free Library

E

Ecelectic Medical College Library Episcopal Historical Society Episcopal Theological Seminary Equitable Life Assurance Social Law Library

F

Five Points Mission Francis' circulating library Franklin Library; Mr. Lockwood Free Academy Free Circulating Library for the Blind

G

Gaelic Society Genealogical and Biographical Society Library General Theological Seminary Library German Hospital and Dispensary Library A.T. Goodrich's circulating library Grammar School no.21, Holbrook Library Grolier Club (est.1884)

H

Harlem Law Library Harlem Library Health Department library Helmich & Co.'s German circulating libraryAdvertisement in: E. Porter Belden. New York, past, present, and future: comprising a history of the city of New York, a description of its present condition, and an estimate of its future increase. NY: Putnam, 1849 Horsfall's French circulating library House of Detention for Witnesses library House of Refuge

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I.O. of O.F. LibraryDoggett's New York City Directory. 1848 Institute for the Deaf and Dumb Institution for the Blind Irving Literary Union"Irving Literary Union." New York Times, Dec. 2, 1852 Italian Free Reading-Room and Library

J

Juvenile Asylum

K

Adolph Kirsten's German libraryDoggett's New York City Directory. 1848

L

La Salle Academy library Lenox Library (est.1871) Liter. Geselleschaft of Morrisania library Lorraine library Lyceum of Natural History

M

Maimonides Library AssociationTrow's New York City Directory. 1857 Manhattan College Library Maritime Exchange library Masonic Library Mechanical Engineers Library Mechanics' Institute (est.1830) Medical College and Hospital for Women library Mercantile Library Association (est.1820) Merchants' and Clerks' Library Association Metropolis Law School library Metropolitan Medical College Metropolitan Museum of Art library Military Service Inst. library Minerva circulating library; W.B. Gilley John Montgomery's circulating library Mott Memorial Medical and Surg. library E. M. Murden's Circulating Library and Dramatic Repository

N

New-York Athenaeum (est.1824)New York Annual Register. 1833 New York City Library New York City Lunatic Asylum New York Free Circulating Library"Reading for the people." New York Times, March 7, 1890 New York Historical Society New York Hospital New York Law Institute New York Law School library New York Medical College New York Normal College library New York Port Society Library New York Public Library (est.1895) New-York Sacred Music Society (est.1823) New York Society Library New York State Colonization Society, Omacatl Society

O

Odd Fellows' Library Olivet Library Joseph Osborn's circulating libraryLongworth's American almanac, New-York register and city directory]. 1808

P

Parthenon Circulating Library and Reading Room Peck Memorial Library Players' Club library Post grad. med. school and hospital library G.B. Powell's Book Store and Circulating Library, 134 BoweryA.E. Wright's Boston, New York, Philadelphia & Baltimore, commercial directory. 1840 Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions Printers' Free Library (est.1823) Prison Association library Produce Exchange library Public School, 14th Ward Public School (20th Ward) Library

R

William Radde's German circulating library Railroad Men's Building library Riverside Free Library Rutgers Female Institute

S

St. Agnes' Free Library St. Barnabas' Free Reading Room St. George's Free Circulating Library St. John's College library St. Luke's Hospital St. Mark's Memorial Chapel, free library Seamen's library, Pike St. Seamen's Friend Society Library Spingler Institute (est.1849), Union Square John Stagner's circulating libraryNew York City directory for 1842 and 1843

T

Teacher's College, Bryson Library Trow Directory library

U

Union Theological Seminary University Club Library University of the City of New York University Settlement library (est.1892)

W

Webster Free Circulating Library (est.1894) Washington Heights Free Library, Amsterdam Ave. Washington Institute Westermann's German circulating library T. Whybrew's circulating library Helen Williams' circulating library Woman's Library, no.19 Clinton Place Women's Free Reading-Room and Library, no.16 Clinton Place Women's Medical College of New York Workingmen's Free Reading-Room and Library

Y

YMCA of Greater New York YMCA YWCA library (est.1870)

See also Books in the United States Culture of New York City List of New York Public Library Branches Media in New York City

References

Further reading

E. Porter Belden. "Literature, Science, and Taste." New York, past, present, and future: comprising a history of the city of New York, a description of its present condition, and an estimate of its future increase. NY: Putnam, 1849 Libraries in New York City. Norton's Literary and Educational Register for 1854. "New York (City): Free Circulating Libraries." American annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year 1886. NY: Appleton & Co., 1889 "Libraries and Reading Rooms." King's handbook of New York City, 2nd ed. 1893. "Libraries of New York." James Grant Wilson. The memorial history of the City of New-York: from its first settlement to the year 1892, Volume 4. New York History Co., 1893 Statistics of New York Libraries for 1894. State Library Bulletin, June 1895 "Libraries in New York City." Public Libraries 1:7, Nov. 1896 "Libraries of the City of New York." Libraries of Greater New York. NY: New York Library Club, 1902 Hedbavny, L. "Some Leisure-Time Organizations in New York City, 1830-1870: Clubs, Lyceums, and Libraries." Master's thesis, New York University, 1952. Harold Augenbraum. New York's Oldest Public Libraries. RBM 1 no2 (2000), 145-60 T. Glynn. Books in the public sphere: New York libraries and the culture-building enterprise (dissertation). Auburn University, NY.

External links

Princeton University. Davies Project. American Libraries before 1876. New York Public Library. Photo of Aguilar Free Circulating Library East Broadway, Reference Room New York Public Library. Photo of New York Free Circulating Library, Branch no. 1, 1899