@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {2034},
      author = {Knafl, Anne and Spiegel, Nancy},
      title = {The Old University of Chicago in the New: The Library},
      address = {2019-10-11},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {The Old University of Chicago was incorporated in 1856.  The first classes were held on September 9, 1858. In their  annual catalogue for 1859-60, the University reports their  Library has 2,000 volumes. (1) Over the next twenty-seven  years, the University grew its collection to approximately  7,000 volumes. When the original University closed in 1886,  trustee John A. Reichelt purchased the entire collection  with the intention of gifting it back to the University  once reincorporated. In the interim, the books were held by  the Baptist Union Theological Seminary. These 7,000 volumes  formed the basis of the library of the University when it  was reestablished in Hyde Park in 1890. They represent a  physical connection between the Old University of Chicago  in Bronzeville and the “New” University of Chicago that  exists today.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2034},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.2034},
}