Pitt County Bookmobile

Published Sep 25, 2012 by

ECU Contributor

Filed under:

East Carolina Manuscript Collection
Imported
negatives (photographic)
newspapers
photographs

Source: Daily Reflector Image Collection (East Carolina Manuscript Collection #741.10.e.14)

Staff person: Matt Reynolds

Description:
This is an image of Pitt County’s second bookmobile from the spring of 1956. Essentially operating as mobile libraries, bookmobiles were used to deliver books and other materials to areas that did not have traditional library buildings. These programs were especially effective in granting access to rural and housebound people. This particular bookmobile was manufactured by the Gerstenslager Company.