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• Joseph L. Harrison, Librarian 1912-1950 and founder of what is now the Coolidge Museum
  

  

• Forbes

  

• Forbes Library under construction

  
  Forbes Library under construction

• Forbes Library Landscape

  

• Anna Gertrude Brewster

  
  First woman Trustee

• Summer Bookmobile, 1963

  
  Summer Bookmobile, 1963

• First photocopier with Mary Ann Sullivan and Librarian Stanley Greenberg

  
  First photocopier with Mary Ann Sullivan and Librarian Stanley Greenberg. Photograph from the Daily Hampshire Gazette September, 1963.

• Friends of Forbes Library members Christine Nolan and Kari Knapp receiving the Trustees Award.

  
  Friends of Forbes Library members Christine Nolan and Kari Knapp receiving the Trustees Award with Director Janet Moulding and Trustee Russell Carrier. 2012.

• Gertrude Smith

  
  In 1982 she was given the first Trustees Award to honor a community member who has given exceptional volunteer service to Forbes Library.

• Dorena Wasik at Circulation Desk

  
  Dorena Wasik at circulation desk, 1983. Photograph by Lionel Delevingne.

• Anna Gertrude Brewster and Henrietta Schmitter with New Phonograph Collection

  
  Anna Gertrude Brewster and Henrietta Schmitter with new phonograph collection, 1952.

• Audio-visual Lab

  
  Audio-visual lab, 1973. Serena Smith on right.

• Elise Bernier-Feeley with Spiral Staircase

  
  Elise Bernier-Feeley with spiral staircase. 1983. Photograph by Lionel Delevingne.

• Staff, 2005

  
  Staff, 2005

• Staff, 2005

  
  Staff, 2005

• Staff, 2008

  
  Staff, 2008

• Writers in Residence Diana Gordon, Susan Stinson, Naila Moreira

  
  Writers in Residence Diana Gordon, Susan Stinson, Naila Moreira, 2015. Photograph by Jeep Wheat.

• “Dolls Reception” at Forbes Library, January 5, 1929.

  
  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…

• Forbes Library Armistice Celebration on Nov. 12, 1918.

  
  Photo from Forbes Library Special Collections of Armistice Celebration on Nov. 12, 1918.

• Forbes Library Children

  
  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.