1940s library

An exhausted student gives up, 1940s. © Vassar College, Archives & Special Collections Ref. # Ph.f10.4

Woody Allen and Romy Schneider in the library scene from the goofy, racy What’s New, Pussycat? The only fight scene ever instigated by the Collected Poems of Shelley? “Sorry, I saw Shel…

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Students studying in the library inside Burpee Hall in the 1940s. Photograph taken by William Rittase.

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Long before Amazon, Audible, and other digital book distributors, bookmobiles were bringing literature to peoples' doorsteps. Their mission was to provide remote villages and city suburbs that had no libraries with books to read. We invite you to remember these almost forgotten four-wheelers of the past.