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The Face of America: Quiet, Please. Outside, Manhattan hums in the nervous orbit of its daily rounds. Inside, grave and silent scholars purue the explanation of life, the mysteries of science and philosophies of man. Here a student may nibble eternally on an inconsumable larder of knowledge, like a mouse at a mountain of cheese, though a passer-by may come in who simply likes to read. Stone lions guard the gates of this building at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street, warning such frivolous idlers as may enter to wear, at least, an air of ernest purpose. For here they join the company of the literate, where intellectualism is a joy and not a joke. Sister Michael Mary, for example, and her companion, Sister Anna Mercedes (foreground), are intellectuals. They are teachers at Cathedral High School who are working for advanced degrees. Among their benefactors, along with kings, saints and martyrs, are included three millionaires, named Lenox, Astor and Tilden, whose legacies were merged in 1895 to form the nucleus of the New York Public Library. The result has been the United States' largest municipal public-library system, consisting of 6,397,973 volumes and pamphlets. Photograph by Farrell Grehan. ..... 1959 Saturday Evening Post Picture, A5204A.


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The Face of America: Quiet, Please. Outside, Manhattan hums in the nervous orbit of its daily rounds. Inside, grave and silent scholars purue the explanation of life, the mysteries of science and philosophies of man. Here a student may nibble eternally on an inconsumable larder of knowledge, like a mouse at a mountain of cheese, though a passer-by may come in who simply likes to read. Stone lions guard the gates of this building at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street, warning such frivolous idlers as may enter to wear, at least, an air of ernest purpose. For here they join the company of the literate, where intellectualism is a joy and not a joke. Sister Michael Mary, for example, and her companion, Sister Anna Mercedes (foreground), are intellectuals. They are teachers at Cathedral High School who are working for advanced degrees. Among their benefactors, along with kings, saints and martyrs, are included three millionaires, named Lenox, Astor and Tilden, whose legacies were merged in 1895 to form the nucleus of the New York Public Library. The result has been the United States' largest municipal public-library system, consisting of 6,397,973 volumes and pamphlets. Photograph by Farrell Grehan. ..... 1959 Saturday Evening Post Picture, A5204A.
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