Providence Library Company records (Arch-001)

Providence Library Company institutional records include two register books (1753-1865), catalogs (1753-1818), book lists (1759, 1799), two minute books (1774-1836), various miscellaneous papers, bills and receipts (1815-1820s), charter and by-laws (1818), a notebook of proprietors' lists (1818), and circulation records (1815-1828). The materials dating 1899 are typescript copies from original documents of the Providence Library Company dating 1768 (Rules), 1798 (Act of Incorporation), and 1817 (Act of Incorporation amendments).