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Brooklyn Apprentices' Library

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The Brooklyn Apprentices' Library Association began in the summer of 1823 when a group of Brooklyn citizens, including philanthropist Augustus Graham, met at Stevenson's Tavern for the purposes of establishing a library in the city of Brooklyn. The organization was founded with the purpose of aiding
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who six decades later wrote about his memory of seeing Lafayette place the cornerstone. He also recalled that Lafayette picked him up and kissed him on that day, and was generally enthralled by the general's charismatic good-natured demeanor. Whitman would later work as a librarian at the Brooklyn
88:. In 1843 the Brooklyn Lyceum organization and the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library merged to form the Brooklyn Institute (later known as the Brooklyn Institute of Arts). That organization later founded numerous cultural institutions in Brooklyn, including the 156:
The Eagle and Brooklyn: The Record of the Progress of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Issued in Commemoration of its Semi-Centennial and Occupancy of its New Building: Together With the History of Brooklyn From Its Settlement to the Present
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youths "in becoming useful and respectable members of society." They adopted a charter and began to collect books, funds, and other resources to achieve that aim.
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A building site for the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library was found at the intersection of Cranberry and Henry Streets in
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Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts: Volume I; Family Notes and Autobiography, Brooklyn and New York
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in 1841. In 1843 it merged with that organization to establish the Brooklyn Institute (now the
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In 1841 the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library moved from its original location into the
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Brooklyn!, 3rd Edition: The Ultimate Guide to New York's Most Happening Borough
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among other cultural, scientific, and education programs.
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An engraving of the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library in 1825
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Index


Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn Heights
Brooklyn Lyceum
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Heights
cornerstone
General Lafayette
Independence Day
Walt Whitman
Brooklyn Lyceum
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn Children's Museum
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Yale University Press
ISBN
9780300114652
"Educational Institutions"
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
National Geographic
ISBN
9781426205231


"Brooklyn's "University for the People""
Harper's Weekly
Walt Whitman
"Lafeyette in Brooklyn"
New York University Press

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