Reader submits her entry for the Enchanted Forest Reading Club in the Forbes Library Children's Department, September 1966. Photograph from the Daily Hampshire Gazette photo archive in Special Collections.

Children at “Dolls Reception” at Forbes Library, January 5, 1929. In the twenties and thirties, an annual Dolls Reception was held at the library in the weeks after Christmas to which children would bring their own treasured dolls. 

"The trinity" Cyanotype of early Forbes staff, ca. 1895-1905.

Forbes Library, photo by Walter Corbin

Children reading after school at Forbes Library, 1920s. The Children's Room was on the 2nd floor in what is now the Arts & Music CD and DVD area.

Photo from Forbes Library Special Collections of 100 years ago today during the Armistice Celebration on Nov. 12, 1918.