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A visit to Roxbury Penal Farm

Collection Name

The First Bookmobile - Washington County Free Library, MD

About

Bookmobile Travels through Washington County

Media Items

Bookwagon outside of penal farm; woman and 4 prisoners look through books
wcbm221s.jpg
ItemID
wcbm221
IDEntry
207
Creator
Unknown
Rights
Washington County Free Library
Date
1931
Collection Location
Washington County Free Library
Original size
10 x 6 cms
Subject
Washington County Free Library
Titcomb, Mary Lemist, 1857-1932
Public libraries--United States
Bookmobiles
Mobile Libraries
Coverage
Washington County (Md.), 1931

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