Sacramento Room Digital Collections

- Children stand outside Sacramento City Library bookmobile
- 1948
- Children gather at the Traveling Branch of the Sacramento City Library. This bookmobile was designed by City Librarian Grace Taylor Dean, constructed from a war surplus trailer chassis, and built by Mr. Semas, a mechanic at the Corporation Yard. It...
- Sacramento City Library bookmobile charge desk
- 1961
- Nelson King helps children check out books at the bookmobile charge desk
- Pioneer bookmobile
- 1976
- Men in western costume pose next to the Bicentennial-themed Sacramento Public Library Pioneer bookmobile. This mobile library was in operation from 1975 through the late 1980s.
- Wonder Wagon bookmobile at festival
- 2000
- The Sacramento Public Library's Wonder Wagon bookmobile sits parked at a Sacramento festival. The Wonder Wagon project was funded by the Sacramento Public Library Foundation in 1997 to deliver books and technology to area residents unable to visit...
- Glen Fugitt decorates bookmobile
- 1972
- Glen Fugitt decorates the Sacramento Public Library bookmobile for the North Highlands Moonwalk Parade.
- Linda Howe next to Wanderer bookmobile
- 1982
- Linda Howe loads an EIKI film projector onto the Sacramento Public Library's Wanderer bookmobile (ca. 1982).
- Flannigan trailer bookmobile
- 1963
- Children enter one of two Flannigan trailer units purchased for the Sacramento City Library in 1963 to serve as bookmobiles.
- Costumed children in front of bookmobile
- 1970
- Children dressed in Summer Reading costumes (the theme was Circus of Books) pose in front of the Sacramento Public Library's Traveling Branch (ca. 1970).