An interested passenger

The passenger is Samuel Haverford Ranck, Librarian, Grand Rapids Library, 1904-1941. Source - Gordon Olson, Grand Rapids City Historian. In his annual report for 1914-15, the following information is found:

"The annual meeting of the American Library Association was held in Washington this year, May 25-29...." [1914, the annual report covers a fiscal year that began on April 1, 1914 and ended on March 31, 1915]

"At its close the Librarian [Ranck] visited the Washington County Free Library at Hagerstown, Md., and spent a day on the automobile wagon which distributes books from house to house to the people in the country. A set of excellent photographs of this work were secured."