A collection of photographs from private collections, digitized by the Greenville County Library System.
In 1932, the WPA built “So Big” on a vacant lot on Augusta Road. After the diminutive building, the bookmobile served the area until 1975 when the library rented a storefront next to Pickwick Pharmacy. In 2004 the Ramsey Family Branch Library replaced the rented space.
In 1961, citizens persuaded the Library to stock books in two unused rooms of Mauldin town hall. A visit to this little collection from Arthur Magill resulted in the gift of a building, which opened in 1962. The branch moved to the new W. Jack Greer Library in August 29, 1999.
Greenville’s library opened in 1921 under the leadership of Thomas F. Parker in a storage room on E. Coffee St. Over the years the Main library has been housed in the Jervey Jordan building, old Park School building, College Street building, and, in 2002, moved to its current location.
Beginning in 1927 the bookmobile began visiting Travelers Rest each week, but by 1961 more was needed so a branch opened on the second floor of the Saving & Loan building on Main Street. In 1971, the library moved to a larger storefront until September 1996 when the new Sargent Branch opened on Center Street.
The Simpsonville branch opened in 1926 located in the front part of a furniture store on South Main Street. In 1940 the library moved into a building funded by the WPA, which was later remodeled. In 1997, the current Hendricks branch opened to the public.
The Greenville County Library opened the Berea branch in 1971 in a store front on Cedar Lane Road. It soon began circulating more book than any other branch and soon needed more space. The branch later moved to Highway 25 Bypass and opened April 1998.
The bookmobile served the westside regularly until 1975 when the West Branch opened in a storefront at the corner of Easley Bridge Rd. and West Washington Ave. The current Anderson Road branch opened October 2003.
William D. Workman, Jr. (1914-1990) was a well-known South Carolina journalist, author, newspaper editor, and talented photographer. His career as a newspaperman made him a household name throughout the state. A strong believer in states’ rights and the virtues of the Southern culture, Workman authored The Case for the South (1960), a statement of the South’s position …
The South Carolina State Library and the South Carolina Digital Library present the South Carolina State Library Photograph Collection, a collection of historical and contemporary images from the 1940s-1970s relating to library services. The photographs are from the archives of the South Carolina State Library and many were taken by State Library field agents. Portrayed …