Edward Kinsell sits on the front porch of his "Cozy Corner" home located between Clear Spring and Green Spring Furnace. The book depository for the Washington County Free Library can be seen on the porch.
According to the Annual Report of 1906, Mr. Kinsell was sent 150 books for the Green Spring Furnace Deposit Station.
The book deposit station at Green Spring Furnace was a wooden case placed outside a house. Some readers needed to step on a box to reach the books.
Selecting books near Lane's Run in western Washington County.
The bookmobile stops by the Baltimore and Ohio train tracks at Cohill Station, western Washington County.
The 1912 bookmobile struggles up Fairview Mountain.
The Bookmobile by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Potomac River.
Black Rock School showing Black Rock in the distance. The book wagon visited schools to provide books and paintings.
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."
The book wagon visits Grimm's Blacksmith Shop in Cearfoss.
Three means of transportation in western Washington County - the book wagon on the heights, the Western Maryland Railroad and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. The Potomac River is on the far right of the picture.