Long before Amazon, Audible, and other digital book distributors, bookmobiles were bringing literature to peoples' doorsteps. Their mission was to provide the written word to remote villages and city suburbs that had no libraries. We invite you to remember these almost forgotten four-wheelers of the past.
The first bookmobile is believed to have appeared in Warrington, England in the late 1850s. It was a horse-drawn cart, and lent about 12,000 books during its first year of service. Later, mobile libraries were installed inside vehicles and reached the height of their popularity in the mid-20th century when they had become a part of Americal life.
Although bookmobiles are still operated in some parts of the world by libraries, schools, activists, and other organizations, they are widely thought to be an outdated service due to high costs, advanced technology and impracticality.
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#1 An Opened Bookmobile, 1925
Numismatic Bibliomania Society
#2 The First Bookmobile Of The Public Library Of Cincinnati, 1927
Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County
#3 A Mobile Library In Kurdistan, Iran, 1970
#4 Inside A Bookmobile, 1960s
#5 One Of The Library Bookmobiles, C. 1948.
Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County
#6 A Bookmobile In Indonesia, Early 20th Century.
#7 The Bookmobile In Columbia Park, C. 1940
Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County
#8 Bookmobile
#9 Book Caravan In Iowa, C.1927
#10 Multnomah County Library, 1926
#11 Greensboro, North Carolina, 1936
#12 An Impatient Queue For A Dutch Bookmobile
#13 The Library’s Bookmobile On Compton Road, C.1933
Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County
#14 Three Of The Bookmobile Staff, C.1930
Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County
#15 Craig Medvigny (left) And David Sutton Enjoying A Book; Eleanor Mann Substitute Traveling Branch Librarian, C. 1920s
#16 Mrs. Josie Sanders, Richard Sanders, Jerome Sanders And Two Younger Children. C1950s
#17 A Horse-drawn Cart In Washington In The 1900s. It Was One Of The First American Bookmobiles, Built In 1905, But Was Hit And Destroyed By A Train In 1910
#18 A Bookmobile In Indonesia, Early 20th Century.
#19 A Mobile Library In Canterbury
#20 A Boston Public Library Bookmobile, 1963
#21 A Bus With A View, 1967
#22 Utah State Library Bookmobile On The Road Circa 1970
#23 The Library's Bookmobile
Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County
#24 Children Gathering At The Bookmobile, C. 1912
#25 Children Gathering At The Kern County Free Library Bookmobile At Aztec School, 1947
#26 A Very Fine Bookmobile Owned By The New Castle County Free Library
Anne Arundel Country Public Library
#27 Rockville Fair, Maryland, 1928
#28 A Circulating Library In A Streetcar In Munich, Germany
#29 Bookmobile At Anne Arundel County Fair, 1973
#30 Sanpete County Bookmobile
#31 Summer Rural Service, 1936
#32 Bookmobile
#33 The Book Caravan, One Of The First Traveling Bookshops, 1920.
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