The Boston Athenaeum
Subtitle: bicentennial essays
By: edited by Richard Wendorf.
Contributors: Wendorf, Richard.
Publisher: Boston Athenaeum; Distributed by University Press of New England
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston; Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780934552769
Subjects: Boston Athenaeum -- History; Subscription libraries -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History
Description: "The Boston Athenaeum is an important and unusual cultural institution. The largest membership library in North America, the Athenaeum also boasts an extensive collection of rare books and manuscripts as well as one of the most significant art collections at any American library. The twelve essays in this bicentennial publication address some of the most important events, issues, and initiatives during the Library's two hundred-year history."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Athenaeum origins / Richard Wendorf; title: America's most influential library? / Kenneth E. Carpenter; title: The role of women at the Boston Athenaeum / Barbara Adams Hebard; title: Nineteenth-century British tourists in search of culture in Boston / David B. Dearinger; title: Whose library? / Katherine Wolff; title: Prints and photographs at the Boston Athenaeum / Sally Pierce; title: Building an architectural collection / Catherina Slautterback; title: The Boston Athenaeum and the creation of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts / Hina Hirayama; title: Scruples and restricted access at the Boston Athenaeum / Mary Warnement; title: Conservation at the Boston Athenaeum / James Reid-Cunningham; title: Building the Boston Athenaeum's book arts collection / Stanley Ellis Cushing; title: The Calderwood writing initiative at the Boston Athenaeum / John Brereton.