Act Of Incorporation And By Laws Of The Brooklyn City Library

Author : Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364086940
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book The Act of Incorporation, the By-Laws and a Brief History of the Brooklyn Institute, 1888 (Classic Reprint) written by Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Act of Incorporation, the by-Laws and a Brief History of the Brooklyn Institute, 1888 In the Summer of 1823 several gentlemen, among whom was Augustus Graham, met at Stevenson's Tavern for the purpose of establishing for the appren tices of Brooklyn a Free Library. They adopted a constitution and issued to the citizens of Brooklyn a circular, in which they solicited donations of books and money with which to effect their purpose. On November 2oth, 1824, they were incorporated by the Legislature of the State under the name of The Brook lyn Apprentices Library Association, and on July 4th, 1825, the corner-stone of the first building owned by the Association was laid by General Lafayette, at the junction of Henry and Cranberry streets. The first lecture delivered in the completed structure was by Professor Dana. As early as 1835 the Association had outgrown its original quarters, and the property being sold to the city the Institution was removed to its present site on Washington street, then the centre of the wealth and culture of our young city. 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.