The Aguilar Free Library Society in New York City was started in 1886 to foster the "free circulation of carefully selected literature in the homes of the people of this City, with distributing branches where the Jewish population was dense..." There were four branches in 1901 when the library merged with the New York Public Library. [The Aguilar Branch at 174 East 110th Street is one of the oldest branches of the New York Public Library]. Lydenberg, Henry Miller. History of the New York Public Library. (NY, 1923) p. 241
The Aguilar Free Library Society in New York City was started in 1886 to foster the "free circulation of carefully selected literature in the homes of the people of this City, with distributing branches where the Jewish population was dense..." There were four branches in 1901 when the library merged with the New York Public Library. [The Aguilar Branch at 174 East 110th Street is one of the oldest branches of the New York Public Library]. Lydenberg, Henry Miller. History of the New York Public Library. (NY, 1923) p. 241