Spanking new in 1931: New York State’s first school district bookmobile was operated by Delmar Public Library.
(Bethlehem Public Library archives)
At the Community United Methodist Church in Slingerlands
(undated, courtesy Ann VanDervort)
Moby Dick and friends in 1945
(Bethlehem Public Library archives)
Moby Dick and friends in 1945
(Bethlehem Public Library archives)
Moby Dick and friends in 1945
(Bethlehem Public Library archives)
The Bookmobile Goes to Moscow: on the Finn Lines pier in Brooklyn with l. to. r. bookmobile builder Thomas F. Moroney, library board president Theodore Wenzl, John Mackenzie Cory of the American Library Association, and Thomas J. McLaughlin, head of the Combined Book Exhibit delegation
(Publisher’s Weekly 5.25.59, photo by Robert Berenson)
Muscovites crowd into the Delmar Public Library bookmobile at the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow
(Bethlehem Public Library archives)
Mobile diplomacy: 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow
(Bethlehem Public Library archives)
Babe the Blue Ox in the field, circa 1960
(Bethlehem Public Library archives)
Library custodian Paul Goodfellow and Babe on their last week together
(Spotlight 1.1.76)
The library’s first van typified a general change in mobile library services.
(Spotlight 4.1.76)