The Founders’ first library was a schoolroom in what is now the Masonic Temple on the corner of Kenwood Avenue and Adams Street.
(1950, photo credit Dillenback; courtesy Ann VanDervort)
An early fundraiser for a fledgling library: music and a lantern-slide lecture in 1914
(Bethlehem Public Library archives)
The cast of What Became of Parker: a farce-comedy in four acts, penned in 1898 by Maurice Hageman. The play was staged by the Progress Club in 1916 as a fundraiser for the new library building. All the parts were played by women.
(Bethlehem Public Library archives)
Delmar Public Library’s first “official” librarian Eula Hallam, c. 1933
(Bethlehem Public Library archives)
Progress Club members Mrs. Murray Klingaman and Mrs. Anthony Proto relax during an antiques exhibition held in the library community room in 1961. The event was a fundraiser for the third and final extension of the library building at Hawthorne and Adams.
(Bethlehem Public Library archives)
Delmar Progress Club float, 1976 Bethlehem Memorial Day Parade
(Bethlehem Public Library archives)