This document contains the 1861 annual report for the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association and the 1861 tenth annual report of the Board of Directors of the Mercantile Library Hall Company. The cover is labeled ninth report, but the tenth is within. It discusses the bust of Thomas Hart Benton, the portrait of Alexander von Humboldt by George Caleb Bingham, and various other affairs of the
This document contains the thirty-fourth annual report of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association for the year 1879. It was published following the annual meeting in January of 1880.
The Saint Louis Lyceum was a public forum for lectures and debates in early St. Louis. It was founded in 1838 in the spirit of the Lyceum Movement, a national effort towards self-improvement and community led education for adults. It maintained and built upon the library of the city's first subscription library, the St. Louis Library Association, which was founded in the early 1820s. The
This document contains the thirteenth annual report of the board of directors of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association and the eighth annual report of the board of directors of the Mercantile Library Hall Company. It was compiled in January of 1859 for the year 1858.
This document contains the sixth annual report of the Mercantile Library Association and the first annual report of the Mercantile Library Hall Company. These reports were published in 1852 and cover the business of those two organizations for the year 1851.
This document contains the seventh annual report of the Mercantile Library Association in English and German as well as the second annual report of the Mercantile Library Hall Company.
This document contains the twentieth annual report of board of directors of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association and a report on the fifteenth annual meeting of the Mercantile Library Hall company. It was compiled in January of 1866 about the events of the year 1865.
This document contains the 1858 annual report for the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association and the 1858 seventh annual report of the Board of Directors of the Mercantile Library Hall Company. There is also a fragment of Auguste Chouteau's Journal of the founding of St. Louis translated from the French by J. Givin Brown and J. Wilmer Stith.
This document contains the twenty sixth annual report of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association for the year 1871. It was published the following January of 1872.
This document contains the ninth annual report of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association and the fourth annual report of the Mercantile Library Hall Company for the year 1854. It was published the following January of 1855 along with the inaugural address of the Reverend William Homes at the opening of the library's new building.
This document contains the eighth annual report of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association and the third annual report of the Mercantile Library Hall Company for the year 1853. It was published following annual meetings in January of 1854.
This document contains the twenty-first annual report of the board of directors of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association and a report on the sixteenth annual meeting of the Mercantile Library Hall Company. It was compiled in January of 1867 and covers the events of the year 1866.
This document contains the twenty-eighth annual report of the board of directors of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association. It was assembled in January of 1874 regarding the events of the year 1873.