Benjamin Franklin's subscription library, "The Library Company of Philadelphia," is the first of its kind in what would become the United States Benjamin Franklin's subscription library, "The Library Company of Philadelphia," is the first of its kind in what would become the United States Before that in 1701, the Anglican Society for the Propagation of the Gospel began collecting books in England to establish church libraries in American Episcopalian Churches. Many churches, which existed before the days of good public libraries, still have church libraries.
Benjamin Franklin founded the first subscription library in America.
Benjamin Franklin lived in Philadelphia and owned a print shop. He also started the first subscription library in Philadelphia. He was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress where the Declaration was written signed and later helped with the Constitution.
The Library Company is America's first successful lending library and oldest cultural institution. It was founded in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin as a subscription library supported by its shareholders, as it is to this day. See: http://www.librarycompany.org/about/index.htm -- Libarian, University of Hawaii at Manoa
The first lending library in America was Philadelphia's Library Company. The city of Philadelphia established the first library in America.
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The first subscription library in Arkansas was founded by the Ladies’ Library Association in Little Rock in 1847. Its purpose was to provide a lending library for its members and promote literary culture in the community.
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In 1971 he became the first president to establish his library on a college campus.
Benjamin Franklin is commonly credited with starting the first lending library in the United States in 1731 in Philadelphia. Franklin and a group of friends created the Library Company of Philadelphia as a subscription library where members paid to borrow books.
Benjamin Franklin's subscription library, "The Library Company of Philadelphia," is the first of its kind in what would become the United States Benjamin Franklin's subscription library, "The Library Company of Philadelphia," is the first of its kind in what would become the United States Before that in 1701, the Anglican Society for the Propagation of the Gospel began collecting books in England to establish church libraries in American Episcopalian Churches. Many churches, which existed before the days of good public libraries, still have church libraries.
It helped establish religious pluralism.
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The Library Company is America's first successful lending library and oldest cultural institution. It was founded in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin as a subscription library supported by its shareholders, as it is to this day. See: http://www.librarycompany.org/about/index.htm -- Libarian, University of Hawaii at Manoa
It helped establish religious pluralism.
It helped establish religious pluralism.