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)

    “With sighs more lunar than bronchial,
    Howbeit eluding fallopian diagnosis,
    She simpers into the tribal library and reads
    That Keats died of tuberculosis . . .”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)