In the mountains near Sideling Hill
The bookmobile in use between 1921 and 1931, pictured near Sideling Hill.
The bookmobile in use between 1921 and 1931, pictured near Sideling Hill.
The family selects their books.
A grandmother and the family visit the bookmobile.
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]
The 1912 bookmobile visits south county.
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.
A group gathers at the bookmobile in the 1930s.
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.
Miss Chrissinger shows books to farm children.
Children selecting books in the bookmobile in the 1960s.