The Peterborough Mechanics' Institute fonds
Contributors: Peterborough Public Library
Published: 1868
Language: eng
Notes: The Peterborough Mechanics' Institute, later the Peterborough Public Library, began as a subscription library and reading room operated by the local Mechanics Institute. The Institute provided evening classes, lectures, and library facilities to support the technical education and spiritual growth of working-class men, skilled labourers and artisans.

Minutes of meetings; proposals for programs, courses, lectures; acquisition data and records of the Institute's operation; financial information, and correspondence; ephemera such as lecture advertisements, 19th-century bookseller' catalogues, and assorted circulars, invoices, etc.

Finding aid available.