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| Title: | History of the Wakefield Library [art original] |
| Authors: | Dillaway, Hope McCloskey |
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| Publisher: | Wakefield, MA : The author, |
| Abstract: | "HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY OF THE TOWN OF WAKEFIELD - Painted by Hope McCloskey Dillaway in 1970 - The old Ecclesiastical Library was at first kept in the parsonage of Rev. Reuben Emerson (1) and later in the rear store area of the Homestead (2) on the north corner of Main and Salem Streets, which belonged to Lilley Eaton II (3). There also were housed the later Social, Franklin, Phrenological, and Mechanics Libraries, each of which was promoted by various town leaders, among whom were Franklin Poole (4), and one who served as librarian, Abel F. Hutchinson (5). Two who had an interest in promoting an Agricultural Library were James Eustis (6) and Samuel Kingman (7). Then in accordance with the new Massachusetts edict in 1856, the Town Public Library was organized, located on the first floor of the Old Town House (8) on Church Street where it crossed what is now the Common. This location served well until conditions became crowded. So in 1872 the Library was again moved, this time to a section of the first floor of the new building, the 1868 Town Hall (9), a gift to the town from Cyrus Wakefield (10). Among the hardworking citizens who made up the original committee to establish the Town Library were Benjamin F. Tweed (11), James Oliver (12), George O. Carpenter (13), and Lilley Eaton III (14). Several also served on the first Boards of Trustees, as did Edward Mansfield (15), upon the site of whose home was later to be erected that which fulfilled the ultimate dream, a special library building made possibly largely by the generosity of friends, and given the name of The Lucius Beebe Memorial Library (16) to commemorate the services and generosity of that member of the original Board of Trustees, Lucius Beebe (17). Others working with him in the same capacity will also be long remembered: James M. Evans (18), Ebenezer Wiley (19), Paul H. Sweetser (20), and John S. Eaton (21)." -- Text from back of painting. |
| Description: | Framed art original
1 art original : oil ; 91 x 122 cm., in frame 105 x 136 cm. |
| URI: | http://is.noblenet.org/images/wak/dillawaykey.bmp
http://hdl.handle.net/10262/570 |
| Appears in Collections: | Lucius Beebe Memorial Library Artwork Collection
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