Collection Name
Collection Name
About
About
The First Bookwagon 1905-1910
Washington County Bookmobile over the years
Media Items
Media Items
Media Items
ItemID
wcbm270
IDEntry
469
Creator
Unknown
Rights
Washington County Free Library
Date
1905-1906
Collection Location
Washington County Free Library
Original size
8 x 11cms
Coverage
Washington County (Md.), 1905-1910
Body
The bookwagon 1905-1910.
The first wagon, when finished with shelves on the outside and a place for storage of cases in the center resembled somewhat a cross between a grocer's delivery wagon and the tin peddlers cart of by gone New England days. Filled with an attractive collection of books and drawn by two horses, with Mr. Thomas the janitor both holding the reins and dispensing the books, it started on its travels in April 1905.
...(From On the trail of the book wagon, by Mary Titcomb.)
Notes
Included in Annual report, 1905-1906. This photograph was part of Miss Chrissinger's collection, donated to the library by Rosalie Layman. The title is from Miss Chrissinger's album.