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 ^[1]
• Mercantile Library Association (Boston, Massachusetts), est. 1820
• Mercantile Library of Cincinnati, 1835, Cincinnati, Ohio ^[1][2]
• Mercantile Library Association, Baltimore 1839 ^[3]
• St. Louis Mercantile Library Association, 1846, University of Missouri–St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri^[4]
• Mercantile Library Association of California, ~1852, San Francisco, California ^[5] 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 ^[1][6]
• Galveston Mercantile Library, 1871, Galveston, Texas

See also

• Mercantile
• Library

References

Notes

1. Subscription library
2. also known as Young Men’s Mercantile Library per Henry Watkin
3. http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/36loc/bcity/chron/html/bcitychron18.html
4. http://www.umsl.edu/mercantile/, Wayman Crow, Horace Kephart, Thomas Jefferson Library, Thomas R. Gould, Harriet Hosmer
5. Horace Davis 
6. O'Reilly Theater, John Edmands