Enlightenment · North America · Culture
1731
Franklin Founds the Library Company
June 25, 1731
In Philadelphia, Franklin persuaded fifty members of his Junto to pool shillings and order books from London. The Library Company became the first subscription library in the colonies. Knowledge was becoming a civic asset, circulated and returned, not hoarded. American reading habits had taken a shape they would not lose.
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