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Page 15
... increase for the year of 8,685 , a larger number than has been added , by the ordinary means of increase , in any other year since its establishment . The Upper or Bates Hall now con- tains almost 124,000 volumes ; the Lower Hall ...
... increase for the year of 8,685 , a larger number than has been added , by the ordinary means of increase , in any other year since its establishment . The Upper or Bates Hall now con- tains almost 124,000 volumes ; the Lower Hall ...
Page 17
... increase its already munificent annual grant to the Library , for the purpose of supplying these deficiencies , but ... increased to such an extent as to enable it soon to overtake and perhaps pass the Library of Con- gress . It also ...
... increase its already munificent annual grant to the Library , for the purpose of supplying these deficiencies , but ... increased to such an extent as to enable it soon to overtake and perhaps pass the Library of Con- gress . It also ...
Page 20
... increase of books is , in some departments , already encroaching on the classifications of books ; and even . if all classification be abandoned , the shelves of the Library will , in a comparatively short period , be filled . The ...
... increase of books is , in some departments , already encroaching on the classifications of books ; and even . if all classification be abandoned , the shelves of the Library will , in a comparatively short period , be filled . The ...
Page 21
... increased accommodations for the Library . CIRCULATION . The circulation of the Library during the year was 218,677 , showing an increase as compared with 1868 of about 43,000 , of which 34,000 were in the Lower Hall and 9,000 in the ...
... increased accommodations for the Library . CIRCULATION . The circulation of the Library during the year was 218,677 , showing an increase as compared with 1868 of about 43,000 , of which 34,000 were in the Lower Hall and 9,000 in the ...
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... increase of some fifteen thousand dollars a year , the time is not far distant when that city will possess a public library which shall be a credit to it . Still further on , at St. Louis , a new vigor is infused into what was a public ...
... increase of some fifteen thousand dollars a year , the time is not far distant when that city will possess a public library which shall be a credit to it . Still further on , at St. Louis , a new vigor is infused into what was a public ...
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100 A parcel 25 feet 50 feet avenue Back Bay Beacon street bounded as follows bridge building Castle street cent channel Charles River City of Boston committee commonwealth containing eight hundred containing nine hundred containing one thousand containing seven hundred containing six hundred described as taken dollars Dover street East Boston eastwardly Edward Tuckerman Eliot street Emerald street filling flats foot formerly belonging formerly of George formerly of Henry formerly of James formerly of John formerly of Mary formerly of William heirs of Edward Indiana place land belonging legislature less Lucas street measuring twenty feet Middlesex street Northeast northeastwardly by land Northwest parcel of land park Sarah SHATTUCK side South Boston Southeast southwest square feet Suffolk street tidal basins Tremont street trustees twenty and feet wardly by land Washington street West Boston bridge westwardly by land wharf