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American Seamen's Friend Society Ship Libraries

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 6, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 23.

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American Seamen's Friend Society Ship Libraries

For many years the American Seamen’s Friend Society has been furnishing libraries of about 40 volumes each, securely packed in strong wooden cases, to vessels of all nationalities entering and leaving New York. These libraries are intended for sailors, and no charges for their use, or restrictions as to care, are enforced. The society has now about 6,000 of these libraries on vessels scattered throughout the globe. The society claims that it owns and thus distributes 300,000 volumes, which are accessible to about 250,000 seamen.