Membership card for the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle; the oldest, continuous book club/home reading course in America. It was founded in 1878 by Bishop John Heyl Vincent and has graduated a class from the four-year reading course every year since 1882. It is run by the Chautauqua Institution.
Digitized by the Metropolitan New York Library Council as part of the Culture In Transit project, funded by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Item number 145
Extent
1 student card ; 12.5cm x 8.5cm
Related Resource
General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, Industry and Culture Collection