Books, Newspapers, and Sociability in the Making of the Portsmouth Athenæum

Baenen discusses the making of the Portsmouth Athenaeum. With more than seven thousand volumes, the Athenaeum was the largest single library in the state and although it was small in comparison to the great libraries of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, local boosters claimed that there were few i...

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