The 1916-1921 bookmobile is pulled out of the mud... somewhere between Trego and Sample's Manor, in southern Washington County. Another photograph shows a horse doing the work to pull it out.
His first view of the bookwagon.
The Keedysville deposit station was in Roy Line's store for a number of years.
A small collection of books was housed in the general store and open one day a week with a local custodian.
This bookmobile was in use 1912 to 1916.
In March of 1912 an IHC Autobuggy with body by Thomas White was delivered by the International Harvester Company. It had a specially constructed top with shelves for 300 books and storage room for four deposit station cases.
Ladies reading in the Boonsboro Reading Room. This was an outgrowth of the deposit station established there. Certain volumes which had belonged to Major Pierce were donated and a Library Association with Harvey S. Bomberger as President was formed.
(From 50th anniversary booklet)
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.