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ItemID
wcbm067
IDEntry
219
Creator
Unknown
Rights
Washington County Free Library
Date
1914
Collection Location
Washington County Free Library
Original size
8 x 10 cms
Coverage
Washington County (Md.), 1914
Body

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."

Notes

Photograph album identifies the passenger as Mr. Charles H. Ranck- Lib. Grand Rapids, Mich.