Favorite Libraries of 1954 Readers
| Neilson Library, Smith College |
100 years old in 2009! |
| Boston Athenaeum |
an old, amazing, beautiful private library on Beacon Street..open for tours |
| Concord Free Public Library |
rotunda has large seated Emerson; writings of Town's transcendentalists, e.g. Thoreau, Channing, the Alcotts, Hawthorne, Fuller |
| New York Social Library |
another private library frequented by '54ers |
| Southport Island Library, Maine |
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| Westport, CT Library |
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| St. Johnsbury, VT Athenaeum |
handsome Victorian bldg. with art gallery and a huge Bierstadt! |
| Baker Library, Dartmouth College |
Orozco Murals, and comfy chairs |
| The Harvard Libraries. [plural] |
Too many libraries I've loved all over the world. If I had to chose only one, it would be this (Joan Lebold Cohen) |
| George Peabody Library in Baltimore |
The last "single great hall" public library standing in the US |
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