Book deposit station in the Post Office at Jamestown (Guilford County)

Title

Book deposit station in the Post Office at Jamestown (Guilford County)

Date

1915

Place

["Jamestown, Guilford County, North Carolina, United States"]

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Title

Book deposit station in the Post Office at Jamestown (Guilford County)

Date

1915

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Abstract

In 1915, the county commissioners appropriated funding for free service to county residents living outside the Greensboro city limits. In addition to opening library use to rural residents and offering telephone and mail service, the library placed stations in various places, including post offices, each with a bookshelf holding fifty books. The postmasters often served as librarians. Greensboro was the first public library south of Maryland to take books to rural residents.

Subject

["Public libraries--North Carolina","Women--North Carolina","Children--North Carolina"]

Place

["Jamestown, Guilford County, North Carolina, United States"]

Time Period

["(1900-1929) North Carolina's industrial revolution and World War One"]

Digital Collections

["Library History","Transforming the Tar Heel State: The Legacy of Public Libraries in North Carolina"]

Physical Characteristics

9.5 x 7.5 inches

Format

["Photographs"]

Hosted By

["State Archives of North Carolina","State Library of North Carolina"]

Identifier

tts_GreePubl_2.tif

Book deposit station in the Post Office at Jamestown (Guilford County)

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