Annual Report, Volumes 11-1337th report, 1889, has atlas of plates (35 cm.) illustrating new building. |
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Página 19 - In trust that the income, but the income only, shall, year by year, be expended in the purchase of books of permanent value, for the use of the free Public Library of the city, and as far as practicable, of such a character as to be of special interest to young men.
Página 11 - Bates would form a very instructive work for young men entering on a business life, but would greatly exceed the limits of this Report. To one important incident of a public nature, allusion may properly be made. The diplomatic intercourse between the governments of the United States and Great Britian, since the peace of 1815, had become encumbered with a multitude of pecuniary claims of the citizens of either country against the government of the other. Many of these were of a complicated character....
Página 16 - I am allowed to pay for the books required, which I am quite willing to do, — leaving to the city to provide the building and take care of the expenses. " The only condition that I ask is, that the building shall be such as to be an ornament to the city, - — that there shall be a room for one hundred to one hundred and fifty persons to sit at readingtables, — that it shall be perfectly free to all, with no other restrictions than may be necessary for the preservation of the books.
Página 31 - ... rule followed in respect to the immediate obtainment of books sought for by any reader, but with which the library was then unfurnished, as that which is in force at Boston. In the 'Rules and Regulations of the Public Library of the City of Boston,' the provision on this point is thus expressed: — "Whenever a book wanted by any one using the Library does not belong to it, such person is particularly requested to enter the title of the book on a card furnished for the purpose, to which the person's...
Página 16 - ... that it shall be perfectly free to all, with no other restrictions than may be necessary for the preservation of the books. What the building may cost, I am unable to estimate, but the books, counting additions during my lifetime, — I estimate at...
Página 17 - I now propose, in addition to the fund of fifty thousand dollars already constituted, to purchase and present to the City a considerable number of books in trust, that the same shall always be accessible, in a convenient and becoming library building, to the inhabitants of Boston generally, under such regulations as may be deemed needful by the persons to whom the government of the institution may, from time to time, be confided.
Página 3 - His Honor Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr., Mayor of the City of Boston : SIR: I have the honor to transmit to you, herewith, the...
Página 15 - October, 1852. DEAR SIR : I am indebted to you for a copy of the Report of the Trustees of the Public Library for the city of Boston, which I have perused with great interest, • being impressed with the importance, to the rising and future generations, of such a Library as is recommended...
Página 16 - I am quite willing to do, — thus leaving to the city to provide the building and take care of the expenses. The only condition I ask is, that the building shall be such as shall be an ornament to the city, that there shall be room for one hundred to one hundred and fifty persons to sit at reading tables...
Página 22 - city has so nobly lavished her choicest gifts, there has been no diminution of interest in the Public Library, but on the other hand progress, at an increasing rate, in all that pertains to its material prosperity and its educational usefulness. INCREASE. During the year, 6,226 books, 2,939 pamphlets, 367 maps and charts, 887 separate papers, 29 engravings, and a lithographic stone, containing designs relating to the life of Franklin, have been added to the Library. Of these, 1,081 books, 2,772 pamphlets,...