Library Book Van Smashed in a Railroad Wreck
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Library Book Van
Smashed in a Railroad Wreck-
Mr. Thomas Escapes Serious Injury
The First Bookwagon 1905-1910
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The book wagon painting by G. A. Rudy
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This painting of the bookmobile depicts a visit to a home near Indian Springs, in western Washington County.
The wagon waits outside a log house
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The horses stand with the book wagon outside a log house built in the German vernacular design. The location is unknown, though the photograph was pasted on the same page in Miss Chrissinger's album, as the Hixon house near Hancock. The Chrissinger album was donated to the Library by Rosalie Layman.
Bookwagon at Oliver homestead
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The book wagon visits the Oliver home. Three women, a child and a dog stand by the book wagon, besides a large white-painted house.
Along the C and O Canal near Dam 6
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The book wagon moves along high above the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, Potomac River and Western Maryland Railroad in Western Washington County.
Black Rock School
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Black Rock School showing Black Rock in the distance. The book wagon visited schools to provide books and paintings.
Cohill Fruit Farm, four miles above Hancock
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The book wagon visited the farms throughout western Washington County.
Old road house near Sideling Mountain on National Pike
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Note on reverse of the large version the Library owns reads:
"Now we know. This was the storekeepers house at Indian Springs. This picture was taken 1907-1908? The house burned in 1912??? The store is still in operation."
Bookwagon near Indian Springs
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Bookwagon stops at the house near Indian Springs.
Dwelling on Rock Forge Mill
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Joshua Taylor, the janitor at the Washington County Free Library, became the driver of the book wagon between 1905 and 1910.