Annual Report, Volumes 1-5437th report, 1889, has atlas of plates (35 cm.) illustrating new building. |
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1903 subscription Agricultural Experiment Station American Arts Association Bates Hall bequest Bond Books and Periodicals Boston Four Bowditch Branch Library branches and stations broadside Bureau cards catalogue Central Library Charles Charles E Charlestown Charlotte Harris circulation City of Boston collection Copley square Custodian Delivery Station Department deposit Dorchester Dorchester Branch East Boston Edward Examining Committee Expense fiction Four per cent Franklin Free Public Library George George H gift Henry Henry W income Institute Invested issued Jamaica Plain James Janitor January 31 John Joseph lecture Librarian LL.D London loss manuscripts Mary Mass Massachusetts Miss mittee newspapers number of volumes Philadelphia photographs printed Prof purchase of books Reading Room Resigned Roslindale Roxbury branch Samuel schools Society South Boston South Boston Branch Statistics Sunday Thomas Thomas H Ticknor tion total number trust funds Trustees Vols West Roxbury William William H xlix xlvi xlviii York City
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Page 68 - MEAD, to constitute the CHARLES MEAD PUBLIC LIBRARY TRUST FUND for the promotion of the objects of the Public Library, in such manner as the government of said library shall deem best, and so far as the government shall deem consistent with the objects of the library to be used for the benefit of the South Boston Branch Library. Received in 1896.
Page 23 - The Gospels of the fower Euangelistes translated in the olde Saxons tyme out of Latin into the vulgare toung of the Saxons...
Page 53 - 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.
Page 77 - Invested in one certificate of City of Boston Six per cent. Stock, for $10,000 00 The interest on this fund is to be used exclusively for the purchase of books for said Library. Also a bequest by the same gentleman, in his will, dated 28th September, 1849.
Page 18 - General Congress, be instructed to propose to that respectable body, TO DECLARE THE UNITED COLONIES FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, absolved from all allegiance to or dependence upon the crown or Parliament of Great Britain...
Page 19 - The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other rites and ceremonies, as revised and proposed to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church...
Page 52 - The following clause from his will explains its purpose : "To hold and apply the income and so much of the principal as they may choose, to the purchase of special books of reference to be kept and used only at the Charlestown branch of said Public Library.
Page 20 - Christian Religion. 1. By leading them to see the Divine Authority of the Scriptures. 2. By the Scriptures, the Divine Truths necessary to Eternal Salvation. Undertaken at the Motion, and published by the order of the Commissioners of the United Colonies.
Page 19 - A Liturgy, collected principally from the Book of Common Prayer, for the use of the First Episcopal Church in Boston ; together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David, fine clean copy, uncut Boston, Peter Edes, 1785, 8
Page 74 - The income only of this fund is to be, each and every year, expended in the purchase of such books of permanent value and authority as may be found most needful and most useful.