. Boston, a guide book . 1807 as the Boston Athe-naeum. Quarters were first found in CongressStreet, then in a Pearl Street mansion housepresented to the institution (1821), and later thisbuilding was built by the corporation. For manyyears the Athenaeum had in connection with itslibrary a valuable art gallery, but the best paint-ings of its collection have been transferred tothe Museum of Fine Arts, Back Bay. It nowpossesses over 240,000 volumes, many of themrare; a large collection of Braun photographsand art works; files of early newspapers; theBemis collection of works on international law
. Boston, a guide book . 1807 as the Boston Athe-naeum. Quarters were first found in CongressStreet, then in a Pearl Street mansion housepresented to the institution (1821), and later thisbuilding was built by the corporation. For manyyears the Athenaeum had in connection with itslibrary a valuable art gallery, but the best paint-ings of its collection have been transferred tothe Museum of Fine Arts, Back Bay. It nowpossesses over 240,000 volumes, many of themrare; a large collection of Braun photographsand art works; files of early newspapers; theBemis collection of works on international law,including state papers, etc., for the increase ofwhich there is a substantial fund; one of the very best sets of UnitedStates documents in the country; the best collection in existence ofbooks published in the South during the Civil War; and a large partof George Washingtons private library, with many works relating tothe first President. The Stuart portrait of Washington now at theArt Museum is owned by the The Athenaeum became early a center of the new literary and artistic life whichwas to make Boston famous in Emersons time. From it came, more or lessdirectly, the old and scholarly North American Review ; and most of the literarysocieties and libraries of to-day in Boston owe their origin entirely or in part tothe influence of the Athenaeum and its founders. The institution is managed bytrustees elected by its 1049 shareholders, known as proprietors. The incomeis. derived from invested funds and from an annual assessment upon each sharein use. Some famous men of New England have been among the proprietors of BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW 47 the Athenaeum, including Daniel Webster, Charles Sumner, Holmes, Parkman,and Prescott. William F. Poole, who originated Pooles Index, was at one timeits librarian. Arthur Theodore Lyman is the present president, and CharlesKnowles Bolton is the librarian. The old-fashioned swell fronts above the bend of Beacon Street,at th
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