Monday, October 28, 2013

The Bookmobile

The Library On Wheels Of Yesteryear
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Long before Amazon was bringing books to your doorstep, there was the Bookmobile. A travelling library often used to provide books to villages and city suburbs that had no library buildings, the bookmobile went from a simple horse-drawn cart in the 19th century to large customised vehicles that became part of American culture and reached their height of popularity in the mid-twentieth century.

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