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Washington County Free Library

Books come by motor to gladden the hearts of county children

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Many counties are introducing a motorized circulating library service for the rural districts.

Image used in the National Geographic Magazine of October 1923 in a story about the automobile industry.

Children visiting the Bookmobile

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Librarian and children, 1921- 1931. A barefooted boy and girl stand with their family by the bookmobile. The librarian has gloves on and a large hat with flowers on it. Another woman on the right holds a large pile of books.

The family at the bookmobile

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One of the several things to which Hagerstown may well point with pride is the excellent county library which is located there. This excellence consists not so much in the building, equipment or personnel, although these are all that could be desired, as in the fine system of distribution maintained.

You may be driving along the highway far from any town and suddenly come upon a group of people around an automobile truck, into the sides of which shelves are fitted, these shelves filled with books. You ask somebody what it is all about.