Mercantile Library

Mercantile Library may refer to any of several United States libraries:

  • The Center for Fiction, originally the New York Mercantile Library, 1820 New York City, New York
  • Mercantile Library Association (Boston, Massachusetts), est. 1820
  • Mercantile Library of Cincinnati, 1835, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • St. Louis Mercantile Library Association, 1846, University of Missouri–St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
  • Mercantile Library Association of California, ~1852, San Francisco, California Absorbed by San Francisco Mechanics' Institute in 1906.
  • Saint Paul Mercantile Library Association, 1857, Saint Paul, Minnesota
  • Brooklyn Mercantile Library Association, 1857, Brooklyn Public Library Business Library, New York
  • Philadelphia Mercantile Library, 1866, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Galveston Mercantile Library, 1871, Galveston, Texas

Famous quotes containing the words mercantile and/or library:

    “What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous library. Venerable and calm, with all its treasures safe locked within its breast, it sleeps complacently and will, so far as I am concerned, so sleep forever. Never will I wake these echoes, never will I ask for that hospitality again ...”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)