Near Dry Run
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Children at the Bookmobile, 1912-1916 at Dry Run, north of Clear Spring.
Washington County Free Library
Bookwagon stop at the Old Road House, National Pike, Indian Springs
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The bookmobile is parked along a road. A whitewashed log cabin is in the picture. The librarian wears a winter coat, the two women looking at the bookmobile shelves do not.
Green Spring Furnace station and custodian
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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.
Selecting a book - Green Spring Furnace book deposit
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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.
Near Lane's Run
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Selecting books near Lane's Run in western Washington County.
By the train tracks at Cohill Station
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The bookmobile stops by the Baltimore and Ohio train tracks at Cohill Station, western Washington County.
Crossing Fairview Mountain
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The 1912 bookmobile struggles up Fairview Mountain.
A difficult journey
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The Bookmobile by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Potomac River.
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 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.