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A.W.Elson & Co, Boston |
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English: Nicholas Marie Alexandre Vattemare. Advocate of the establishment of a public library in Boston. Born in Paris near the close of the eighteenth century. In early life, a student of surgery with some army practice in that profession. Of wide European reputation as a ventriloquist and minor theatrical performer. After 1827 devoted his time and private fortune to the promotion of a system of international exchange of books, and in this connection advocated the establishment of free public libraries and museums in all countries. |
| Depicted people | Alexandre Vattemare |
| Date | 1910s |
| Collection | Archive.org |
| Source/Photographer | Horace Greeley Wadlin, The Public Library of the city of Boston : a history, Boston : Printed at the Library and published by the Trustees, 1911. |
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