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The Library in American Culture - Apostles of Culture: the Public Librarian and American Society, 1876–1920, by Dee Garrison. New York: Free Press, 1979. - Reform and Reaction: the Big City Public Library in American Life, by Rosemary Ruhig Du Mont. Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1977. 153 + xiii.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Polly Welts Kaufman
Polly Welts Kaufman*
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University of Massachusetts/Boston
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , Spring 1983 , pp. 83 - 89
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Copyright © 1983 by History of Education Society 

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Notes

1. Dain, Phyllis, The New York Public Library: a History of its Founding and Early Years (New York, 1972), p. xiii.Google Scholar

2. Du Mont, , Reform and Reaction, p. 139.Google Scholar

3. Ibid, p. 42.Google Scholar

4. Garrison, , Apostles of Culture, pp. xii–xiii, 34.Google Scholar

5. Ibid, pp. xv, 224.Google Scholar

6. City of Boston, , Documents of the City of Boston, 1852 (Boston, 1853), No. 37, p. 17.Google Scholar

7. Garrison, , Apostles of Culture, p. 189.Google Scholar

8. Ibid, p. 59.Google Scholar

9. Ibid, p. 174.Google Scholar

10. Ibid, 173; Weiss, Janice, “Educating for Clerical Work,” Journal of Social History, 14 (Spring 1981): 413.Google Scholar

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