Early Pictures of the Library

Angenetta Bittner cataloging books in the cold Tudor Hall

 

St. Mary's County Library "Community Branch" Lexington Park, Maryland in the Felix Johnson Building, showing some of shelving problems as Kay Daugherty browses for books.

 

St. Mary's County Commissioner, C. Byron Guy, hands keys of the new bookmobile to Eloise Pickrell, County Librarian in 1951.

 

Eloise N. Pickrell, first County Librarian taken 1951, on the Tudor Hall staircase.

 

The first Childrens Room located in Tudor Hall was upstairs on the second floor. Do you know any of these children in this picture from the early 1950s?

 

Miss Pickrell sharing the Historical Book Collection with a patron in Tudor Hall.

 

Children visiting Tudor Hall at Christmas time 1950s.

 

The card catalog in the downstairs entrance at Tudor Hall. The staircase is called a "Hanging Staircase."

 

Inside the new bookmobile.