Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the Mercantile Library Association
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Excerpt from Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the Mercantile Library Association: Of the City of New-York, at the Academy of Music, Nov; 9th, 1870 Such was our birth as an Association. The first few years of life were uneventful, save in the obstacles and difficulties which inevitably attach to the earlier stages of all human under takings, and which, in our experience, seemed to prevail in exceptional force. In point of fact, the five years introductory to our career were in no proper sense a question of progress. They were simply and singly a hardly contested struggle for existence. Fortunately for us - more happily for society - the first and greatest crisis was safely passed; the period of convalescence began to assert itself, and in 1826, in the month of June, the Library was moved to more eligible and commodious rooms, in the building then owned and occupied by the Harper Bros., in Cliff Street. Here a new feature was added in the form of a Reading Room, unpretentious enough with its complement of four weekly papers and seven magazines; but, nevertheless, a valued and valuable accession. From this date - 1826 - really begins the progress of the organization. Books accumulate more certainly; papers and magazines increase more sensibly; members, the support and sustenance of the enterprise, multiply with encouraging rapidity, and a few years later on, the merchants of New-York contribute with a generous willingness to place the Library in a building of its own. This was the first Clinton Hall, completed and formally dedicated to our service in November of 1830 ;built for us; exclusively appropriated to our use; but providently held in trust by a Board of Trustees, composed of older and more experienced men, elected by and representing the subscribers to the building; a duly organized body under the name of the Clinton Hall Association. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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