Author Archives: Lori Sailors

Children looking for books on the NLC bookmobile parked outside the Pleasant View School, circa 1930-1939.

Interior photo of the Beatrice Carnegie Public Library, circa 1939.

http://nlcblogs.nebraska.gov/nlcblog/files/2014/08/A001-1902.pdf
1902 Nebraska Library Commission Biennial Report

NLC at the State Capitol building, in the background is Edna Bullock, first secretary of the Nebraska Library Commission.

Library in the Omaha Biscuit Factory, 1900-1920.

The first two minutes from the meetings of the Nebraska Traveling Library Commission (NLC), June 27, 1901 and July 15, 1901.

Exterior photo of the Carnegie Grand Island Public Library.  Notice the dirt roads around the building.

Interior photo of the Broken Bow Carnegie Library, circa 1900-1920.

Nebraska Public Library Commission bookmobile parked in front of the Hastings Carnegie Library, 1939.

The traveling library was a program of the Library Commission where they provided books to towns which did not have libraries.  The wooden box holding the screen door open is how the books were transported to the towns.

Interior photo of NLC located at University of Nebraska Campus Social Science Building Office, circa 1926