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Title: Children stand outside Sacramento City Library bookmobile
Creator: McCurry Foto Co
Date Created and/or Issued: 1948
Contributing Institution: Sacramento Public Library
Collection: Sacramento Room Photographs
Rights Information: This image may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.). Copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction and use of this image are available from the Sacramento Public Library.
Description: Children gather at the Traveling Branch of the Sacramento City Library. This bookmobile was designed by City Librarian Grace Taylor Dean, constructed from a war surplus trailer chassis, and built by Mr. Semas, a mechanic at the Corporation Yard. It was the only trailer bookmobile in California when it began its operation in 1948, and was retired in November 1963.
Type: image
Identifier: http://sacroom.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15248coll1/id/2968
Subject: Children
Libraries
Source: Sacramento Room Photograph Collection

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