Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco
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Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco
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The San Francisco Mercantile Library Association was a civic group organized in San Francisco, California, to "stimulate a generous rivalry in mental culture, by rendering it the fashion to read and converse on literary topics." Its founders J.B. Crockett, F.A. Woodworth, and F.C. Ewer aspired to "make our infant city as distinguished for literature and science as it already is for its commerce and wealth." By 1854 the group had collected for its library some 3,000 volumes. The library grew to 1
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2020-03-11T15:06:28Z
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