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.
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.
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 showing Black Rock in the distance. The book wagon visited schools to provide books and paintings.
The book wagon visited the farms throughout western Washington County.
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 stops at the house near Indian Springs.
Joshua Taylor, the janitor at the Washington County Free Library, became the driver of the book wagon between 1905 and 1910.
The bookwagon 1905-1910.
The first wagon, when finished with shelves on the outside and a place for storage of cases in the center resembled somewhat a cross between a grocer's delivery wagon and the tin peddlers cart of by gone New England days. Filled with an attractive collection of books and drawn by two horses, with Mr. Thomas the janitor both holding the reins and dispensing the books, it started on its travels in April 1905.
...(From On the trail of the book wagon, by Mary Titcomb.)
The family visits the book wagon.