Hand Book to the New York Public Library: Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations1905 - 71 pages |
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40 Lafayette Place accessible Alexander Hamilton Amsterdam Avenue ANDREW CARNEGIE application blank Astor building Astor collection Astor library author entry Bible Board Books printed Bryant Park card catalogue cards of admission Carnegie cata Circulation Department coat-room Cogswell consolidation copy corporation current periodicals December delivery desk Director Drexel East entrance hall executed to order exhibition floor is given FLOOR WEST Ford collection Free Library free reference shelves fund history and genealogy index catalogue James Lenox John John Durand John Jacob Astor John Steell Lenox building Lenox gallery Lenox library librarian in charge library building literature logue main hall main reading room manuscripts maps marble bust marked ment music collection paintings pamphlets print room printed catalogues public documents readers relating second floor selection shelf department south hall stack Stuart STUART COLLECTION subject entries Sundays tion travelling libraries trustees various Washington Heights western end York Public Library
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Page 54 - Division (Room 319) should make a written application to the Director of the Library, specifying name, address, profession or occupation, and the purpose for which admission is desired. Such application should be made, if possible, at least two days in advance and must be accompanied by a written recommendation from some person of known position. In special cases, which do not admit of delay, the...
Page 59 - ... opportunity to secure, at a minimum cost, such a public library system as shall be in keeping with the importance, dignity and magnitude of the City. ... If the City of New York will furnish a proper site and provide the means to erect thereon a suitable building for the...
Page 58 - It is plain that the City of New York should have a broad and comprehensive Library System, adequate to furnish recreation and instruction to all. It is equally plain that while the means at the command of this Corporation are entirely inadequate to undertake the whole work, nevertheless its existing organization and the resources at its command offer to the public an opportunity to secure at a minimum cost such a Public Library System as shall be in keeping with the importance, dignity and magnitude...
Page 41 - Anonymous works are to be entered under the first word of the title, not an article or preposition. Cross-references may be made from all...
Page 68 - For books kept over time a fine of one cent for each day is incurred. Such books, if not returned promptly, will be sent for AT THE COST OF THE BORROWER, who cannot take -another book until all charges are paid.
Page 61 - Library is to be accessible at all reasonable hours and times for general use, free of expense to persons resorting thereto, subject only to such control and regulations as the trustees may from time to time exercise and establish for general convenience.
Page 52 - ARTS. The New York Public Library has about 25,000 volumes on art It is strong in the older works, in the " galleries," in biography of artists, applied and decorative art. The collection of prints amounts to 66,000 pieces. It also has about 25,000 volumes of principal Interest in connection with the history and illustration of ancient and modern art In all its phases, as well as catalogues of the works of individual artists, biographies of artists, sets of " galleries," works on the subject of applied...
Page 46 - Chauncey Ford and his brother, Paul Leicester Ford ; by gifts from Alexander Maitland, and by other related ways. The Ford Collection was rich in contemporary writings for and against the Constitution of 1788, works relating to the first years of the Republic and the later struggles over internal improvements, the United States Bank, and the slavery controversies, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the tariff. The Tilden library contains a good selection of the important general works on American...
Page 5 - Article two of the agreement of consolidation provided that "the said new corporation shall establish and maintain a free public library and reading-room in the City of New York, with such branches as may be deemed advisable.
Page 5 - The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, was formed by the consolidation, on the 23d of May, 1895, of the three corporations, "The Trustees of the Astor Library...