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Astor Library

former public library in New York, United States; merged into the New York Public Library
Organization public_library Q4811069

Facts

13 properties

Identity

Instance of
public library, research library[4]

Status and dates

Inception
January 18, 1849[8]
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date
May 23, 1895[9]

Location

Country
United States[3]
Location
The Public Theater building[6]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 40.729°, -73.992°[10]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Manhattan[2]

People

Founder
John Jacob Astor I[5]
More facts +5
Archives at
New York Public Library Main Branch[7]
Described by source
The American Cyclopædia, The New Student's Reference Work[11][12]
Imported from
wholeness_audit_2026-05-02
Merged into
New York Public Library[14]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject New York Public Library[13]
🏷️ Also known as
en Astor Library he אסטור ja アスター・ライブラリ ja アスター・ライブラリー ja アスター図書館 tr Astor Kütüphanesi
🔖 Identifiers · 10
ISNI
0000000107073171
VIAF cluster ID
144.8M (144.8M–7282167807320.2B, n=3)
Library of Congress authority ID
n87850820
GND ID
84305-2
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Astor Library, N.Y, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views crop.jpg ↗
NL CR AUT ID
ko2002111717
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007425774605171
Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts name ID
7440
Vatican Library VcBA ID
494/39730
Yale LUX ID
group/045bd3b8-7adb-44c0-9070-8f23d298ae1e

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Summary

Astor Library is a public library[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . nypl.org. nypl.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . archives.nypl.org. Retrieved . archives.nypl.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . nypl.org. nypl.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . nypl.org. nypl.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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