List of libraries in 19th-century New York City

A

• Academy of Mt. St. Vincent library
• Aguilar Free Library
• Aldine Club
• American Bible Society
• American Bible Union
• American Congregational Union
• American Ethnological Society
• American and Foreign Bible Society
• American Geographical and Statistical Society
• American Institute
• American Institute of Mining Engineers Library
• American Literary Association
• American Museum of Natural History library
• American Numismatic and Archaeological Society
• American Seaman's Friend Society
• American Society of Civil Engineers
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Anglo-African Reading Room, Prince St.
• Apprentices and Demilt Library, General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York
• Aschenbroedel Verein Library
• Association of the Bar of the City of New York
• Astor Library
• William H. Atree's circulating library

  B

• Bacon Literary Association
• Bancroft Institute
• Samuel Berrian's circulating library
• Bowery Circulating Library; Caleb Bartlett
• Boys' Free Reading Room
• Broome Street Free Library

  C

• Hocquet Caritat's circulating library
• Cathedral Free Circulating Library
• Catholic Club Library
• Children's library
• City Library
• Clinton Place Female Seminary
• College of Pharmacy of City of New York
• College of Physicians and Surgeons
• College of St. Francis Xavier
• College of Veterinary Surgeons Library
• College Settlement Library
• James Collins' circulating library
• Colored Home and Hospital Library
• Colored Orphan Asylum Library
• Columbia College
• Cooper Institute
• Courtland-Street Library; William Stodart

  D

• De Witt Memorial Free Library

  E

• Ecelectic Medical College Library
• Episcopal Historical Society
• Episcopal Theological Seminary
• Equitable Life Assurance Social Law Library

  F

• Five Points Mission
• Francis' circulating library
• Franklin Library; Mr. Lockwood
• Free Academy
• Free Circulating Library for the Blind

  G

• Gaelic Society
• Genealogical and Biographical Society Library
• General Theological Seminary Library
• German Hospital and Dispensary Library
• A.T. Goodrich's circulating library
• Grammar School no.21, Holbrook Library
• Grolier Club

  H

• Harlem Law Library
• Harlem Library
• Health Department library
• Helmich & Co.'s German circulating library
• Horsfall's French circulating library
• House of Detention for Witnesses library
• House of Refuge

  I

• I.O. of O.F. Library
• Institute for the Deaf and Dumb
• Institution for the Blind
• Irving Literary Union
• Italian Free Reading-Room and Library

  J

• Juvenile Asylum

  K

• Adolph Kirsten's German library

  L

• La Salle Academy library
• Lenox Library
• Liter. Geselleschaft of Morrisania library
• Lorraine library
• Lyceum of Natural History

  M

• Maimonides Library Association
• Manhattan College Library
• Maritime Exchange library
• Masonic Library
• Mechanical Engineers Library
• Mechanics' Institute
• Medical College and Hospital for Women library
• Mercantile Library Association
• Merchants' and Clerks' Library Association
• Metropolis Law School library
• Metropolitan Medical College
• Metropolitan Museum of Art library
• Military Service Inst. library
• Minerva circulating library; W.B. Gilley
• John Montgomery's circulating library
• Mott Memorial Medical and Surg. library
• E. M. Murden's Circulating Library and Dramatic Repository

  N

• New-York Athenaeum
• New York City Library
• New York City Lunatic Asylum
• New York Free Circulating Library
• New York Historical Society
• New York Hospital
• New York Law Institute
• New York Law School library
• New York Medical College
• New York Normal College library
• New York Port Society Library
• New York Public Library
• New-York Sacred Music Society
• New York Society Library
• New York State Colonization Society, Omacatl Society

  O

• Odd Fellows' Library
• Olivet Library
• Joseph Osborn's circulating library

  P

• Parthenon Circulating Library and Reading Room
• Peck Memorial Library
• Players' Club library
• Post grad. med. school and hospital library
• G.B. Powell's Book Store and Circulating Library, 134 Bowery
• Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions
• Printers' Free Library
• Prison Association library
• Produce Exchange library
• Public School, 14th Ward
• Public School Library

  R

• William Radde's German circulating library
• Railroad Men's Building library
• Riverside Free Library
• Rutgers Female Institute

  S

• St. Agnes' Free Library
• St. Barnabas' Free Reading Room
• St. George's Free Circulating Library
• St. John's College library
• St. Luke's Hospital
• St. Mark's Memorial Chapel, free library
• Seamen's library, Pike St.
• Seamen's Friend Society Library
• Spingler Institute, Union Square
• John Stagner's circulating library

  T

• Teacher's College, Bryson Library
• Trow Directory library

  U

• Union Theological Seminary
• University Club Library library
• University of the City of New York
• University Settlement library

  W

• Webster Free Circulating Library
• Washington Heights Free Library, Amsterdam Ave.
• Washington Institute
• Westermann's German circulating library
• T. Whybrew's circulating library
• Helen Williams' circulating library
• Woman's Library, no.19 Clinton Place
• Women's Free Reading-Room and Library, no.16 Clinton Place
• Women's Medical College of New York
• Workingmen's Free Reading-Room and Library

  Y

• YMCA of Greater New York
• YMCA
• YWCA library