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Celebrating America’s Public Libraries
Titles vary. 2000-2003.

Celebrating America’s Public Libraries is a series of prints commissioned by SIRS Publishing Inc. of Boca Raton, and created by artist Joe Davis. Funds for framing of the prints were donated by the Parkland Woman’s Club. The libraries depicted in our collection include:

	Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, originally constructed in 1889, and was the model for thousands of other Andrew Carnegie-funded libraries in the United States.
	Brumback Library in Van Wert, Ohio was the first tax-supported public county library in the United States. The cornerstone was laid in 1899 , and it was named after John Brumback who provided substantial support so that all county residents could have free access.
	Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky, shows librarians who traveled via mule or horse to rural areas from the Great Depression era of 1935 to 1943 when the Works Progress Administration withdrew funding. The collections included books, magazines, newspapers, and recipes and were carried in string bags or pillowcases as well as saddlebags.
	Philadelphia Library Company building, founded in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin, was the first lending library in America. It is now the country’s oldest cultural institution and has one of the largest collections of 18th century English books in North America.
	Peterborough Town Library, New Hampshire is the oldest free library in the world supported by taxation. It was incorporated in 1833 and its building opened in 1893.
	Ottendorfer Branch of the New York Public Library, 1884, was the first free public library in New York City. The original collection was half in German and half in English, reflecting the heritage of the founders.
	Bookmobiles, traveling libraries usually on horse-drawn carts, began in 1905 in Hagerstown, Maryland. This print was inspired by a photograph of a ‘boatmobile’ in Bayou de Large in Louisiana.
	Dr. Eugene Clark Library located in Lockhart, Texas, is the first city library and the oldest continually operating library in Texas. It was built in 1899, and funded by the estate of Dr. Clark who specified that it would include space for performances of lectures and concerts as well as providing books.