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Excerpt from A List of Serials in the Principal Libraries of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity Philadelphia is the seat of the oldest public library in the United States that founded by Benjamin Franklin, who calls it in his Autobiography, the mother of all North American subscription libraries. Other learned institutions, the American Philosophical Society and the University of Pennsylvania gratefully acknowledge their indebtedness to the same far-sighted, public-spirited genius and still carry'on his plans of benefiting the community by maintaining libraries. According to the Report of the United States Bureau of Education for 1903 Phila delphia had then 120 public, society and school libraries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.