185,902
Philadelphia Mercantile Library, 183,000
Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Mich., 148,198
University of Pennsylvania Library, Phila., 140,000
Princeton University Library, Princeton, N. J., 135,000
Pennsylvania State Library, Harrisburg, 134,000
Peabody Institute Library, Baltimore, 130,000
Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, O., 129,000
St. Louis Public Library, 125,000
Mechanics and Tradesmen's Library, New York, 115,185
Free Public Library, Worcester, Mass., 115,000
San Francisco Public Library, 108,066
Philadelphia Free Library, 105,000
American Antiquarian Society Library, Worcester, Mass., 105,000
California State Library, Sacramento, 100,032
Massachusetts State Library, Boston, 100,000
New York Society Library, New York, 100,000

Public libraries endowed by private munificence form already a large
class, and these are constantly increasing. Of the public libraries
founded by individual bequest, some of the principal are the Public
Library of New York, the Watkinson Library, at Hartford, the Peabody
Institute Libraries, of Baltimore, and at Danvers and Peabody, Mass., the
Newberry Library and the John Crerar Library at Chicago, the Sutro
Library, San Francisco, the Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore, and the
Carnegie Libraries at Pittsburgh and Allegheny City, Pa. Nearly all of
them are the growth of the last quarter of a century. The more prominent,
in point of well equipped buildings or collections of books, are here
named, including all which number ten thousand volumes each, or upwards,
among the public libraries associated with the founder's name.

New York Public Library (Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations), 450,000
Newberry Library, Chicago, 203,100
Sutro Library, San Francisco, 206,300
Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore, 185,900
Peabody Institute Library, Baltimore, 130,000
Davenport Library, Bath, N. Y., 90,000
Silas Bronson Library, Waterbury, Conn., 52,000
Pratt Institute Free Library, Brooklyn, N. Y.,