Branch County Library
Black-and-white photograph of a librarian reading to seven children outside of the Algansee Unit of the Branch County Library. The librarian is Doris Dove (later Williams), the first librarian at the Algansee Branch through a grant for rural areas from the Kellogg Foundation. View includes a suitcase in front of their feet labeled "Branch County Library". The group is seated on book bench labeled "Chew Mail Pouch Treat yourself to the best." Behind the group is a store shop window with advertisements for Eskimo pies, frozen valomilk candy, chocolate, gum, Coco-Cola bottles, and a Detroit Tigers baseball schedule with a tiger mascot. Doris Dove is wearing a plaid dress and the children are wearing summer clothing. Doris Dove was a librarian at Algansee Unit until 1966, when her sister Hazel Wilkinson (nee Dove) was hired.