Public libraries--United States

For several months in 1931 the bookmobile visited the Roxbury Penal Farm until the prison established their own library.

The bookmobile 1957-1969.

The Studebaker was sold for $320 and replaced by a GMC with automatic transmission, power steering, power brakes, and a 206 HP, V-8 engine. The body was manufactured by Gerstenslager of Wooster, OH. The unit cost $12,895 and had a capacity for 2,800 books. The green and white GMC served Washington County until the late 1960's.

Children leaving the Sharpsburg deposit station with their books. The Library was an outgrowth of a deposit collection established in earlier years.

The women at the back of the bookmobile hold books, while a group of four boys in knickerbockers stands by the door of the vehicle.

Reverse : 1916 Koehler Bookmobile "on the road". Mountain Locke is on the C and O canal near Dargan.

The bookmobile parked outside the Washington County Free Library on Summit Avenue, Hagerstown. This was the original library building and was in use until the 1960s.

Beulah K. Eyerly is seated next to the driver. She was an Assistant Librarian from 1912.

The bookmobile visits a home near Mondell's, close to Sharpsburg.

In the mountains beyond Smithsburg. The 1912-1916 bookmobile stops at the house with a white picket fence. A family, dressed in their winter clothes, is selecting books.

Doubs Mill at Beaver Creek had a deposit book station in the mill office. Louis P. Doub was in charge of the deposit station.

The Nally family farm was "Below the Neck", near Williamsport. The three young men look at the books in the vehicle, while their mother stands by in her bonnet and apron. The bookmobile appears to be parked near a barn.

The bookmobile stops near Maugansville. A woman in a white bonnet and a boy in knickerbockers look at the wagon shelves.