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August 10th, 2011:

Picture of the Week: Wake Forest Summer Stop, 1945

 

Wake County bookmobile in Wake Forest with group of girls, July 1945. From the digital collection, Transforming the Tar Heel State: The Legacy of Public Libraries in North Carolina.

This week’s Picture of the Week is of the Wake County Public Library’s bookmobile making a stop in Wake Forest, North Carolina in the summer of 1945. Perhaps the girls were getting a head start on their summer reading list before school started. Don’t they look cute in their little dresses?

You can view the image here: http://digital.ncdcr.gov/u?/p249901coll36,658

 This image comes from the digital collection Transforming the Tar Heel State: The Legacy of Public Libraries in North Carolina.

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