Title
Librarian with Book Truck.
Coverage
Fairmont, WV:
Publisher
Memphis Press-Scimitar
Date
Undated
Description
Books were especially appreciated in military hospitals at home and overseas. This photograph was taken at Kennedy General Hospital where Sgt. Hilbert Luplow, who was wounded in action in the Italian campaign, selected a book to “while away an otherwise long afternoon.” T/5 Mary Hawkins, who had worked as a librarian at Fairmont State College (in West Virginia) before joining the Women’s Army Corps, made daily rounds with her book truck to serve bedridden patients.
Source
From the Collection of Molly Guptill Manning