Monterey County Free Libraries: Celebrating 100 Years of Service

Celebrating 100 Years of Service

First County Librarian, Anne Hadden, delivering books by donkey to Los Burros (n.d.)

Anne Hadden writing “Picturesque Points in California,” 1925

Library staff on trail transporting books to coastal branches, April 1922

County Librarian’s car used for traveling and transporting books, 1926

Pebble Beach Bookmobile Stop, 1987

Chular Labor Camp Bookmobile Stop, 1979

North Bookmobile with author Beverly Cleary, Nancy Ausonio, and Dallas Schaeffer, County Librarian (left to right), 1995

South County Bookmobile in front of Gonzales Branch Library during library’s remodeling, 2008

South Bookmobile, 2011

Administrative Offices

Library staff, front row, left to right: Esther Ross and Anne Hadden, back row, left to right: Mrs. Miller, Karen Jensen, and Ellen Frink, 1923

Aromas

Aromas Branch Library, 1915

Big Sur

Captain Baker’s residence housed the Big Sur Branch Library (n.d.)

Big Sur Branch Library (n.d.)

Bradley

Bradley Branch Library (n.d.)

Bradley Branch Library (n.d.)

Buena Vista

Buena Vista Branch Library, opened 1998

Carmel Valley

Mathiot Summer Branch Library, near Carmel Valley, 1930

Carmel Valley Branch Library (n.d.)

Castroville

Castroville Branch Library, 1931

Castroville Branch Library, 2006

Gonzales

Gonzales Branch Library, 1993

Greenfield

The first county library, Greenfield Branch Library, operated out of a private home, 1915

Greenfield Branch Library, early 2000’s

King City

King City Branch located in US Forestry Office, 1930

King City Branch Library, 1998

Marina

Marina Branch Library, 1994

Pajaro

Pajaro Branch Library, 1931

Pajaro Branch Library (n.d.)

Parkfield

Parkfield Branch Library was rumored to formerly have been a chicken coop, 1975

Parkfield Branch Library, 1979

Prunedale

Prunedale Branch Library, 1994

San Ardo

San Ardo Branch Library, 1930

San Ardo Branch Library (n.d.)

San Lucas

San Lucas Branch Library, 1930

San Lucas Branch Library, 1994

Seaside

Emerson Branch Library (n.d.)

Seaside Branch Library, 1994

Soledad

The first reading room (1st building on left) was in Soledad, 1915

Dairy Ranch Library near Soledad with Mr. & Mrs. Pura, 1915

Soledad Branch Library, 1999

Sending materials to remote and homebound patrons since 1984

Adult Literacy

Families for Literacy

Early Literacy

Jayanti Addleman, County Librarian, arrives at MCFL's Centennial Celebration

via burro, 2012

Sources:

Historical photographs: L.S. Slevin collection

Modern photographs: Library staff

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