Date, Showing the Progress of the Movement To Secure A Branch Free library For Germantown, Philadelphia: 1894-1896.
Entry/Object ID
2014.28.1134
Description
Hard cover, 101pp.
Date, Showing the Progress of the Movement To Secure A Branch Free library For Germantown, Philadelphia: 1894-1896. Hard cover, 101pp.
While this book has a hard cover, it is essentially a scrapbook, comoposed of white, lined journal pages encased in a hard cover. It contains the author's signature penmanship and use of newspaper clippings, etc. It details community efforts to secure a branch of the Philadelphia Free Library in Germantown.
A bookplate found inside the Front Cover indicates this book was a gift to The Site and Relic Society of Germantown (now known as The Germantown Historical Society) from The Free Library of Philadelphia in April, 1910.