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Photograph of staff & volunteers at a social gathering in the summer of 1982.

Front row, from left: Flora Nydam, Anita Sikma, Susan West, Adrienne Price, Shelly dePeuter, Brenda de Best
Back row, from left: Nellie Dewhurst, Phyllis Bell, Madge Beexton, unlegible on back of photograph, Bill Melbourne, Marilyn Reynolds

Photograph of Ida Day Smith, daughter of Professor W.H. Day and librarian of Bradford Public Library in 1936. She was also the daughter of Ethel Day, who took over the librarianship in 1936. Ida Day was the sole librarian after Mary Brown, and worked in a second floor room of T.W.W. Evans' law office. Once she married Raymond Smith in October of 1936, the couple moved away and Ida's mother, Ethel, took over the librarianship duties.

A sketch of the Bradford Public Library by D. Wadsworth. Dated June 1985.

"Professor W.M. Drummond and Professor Norman High, of the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, were guest speakers at the general meeting of the Simcoe County Library Co-Operative, held in Barrie on October 7th. Stressing the fact that reading brings inspiration, information, and a broadening of our appreciation of life, as well as, in some cases, more economic security, the speakers discussed the particular importance of reading in a democracy." ...

Photograph of the Simcoe County Library's bookmobile, which transported books to and from Bradford Public Library and staff members, Eve, Gertie & Jane.

Annette Francis, Gertrude Melbourne and Nadia Morrow at a library booth set up for the Bradford Salad Festival.

Gertrude Melbourne at a library booth set up for the Bradford Salad Festival.

Annette Francis and Nadia Morrow at a library booth set up for the Bradford Salad Festival.

Adrienne Price at a library booth set up for the Bradford Salad Festival.

A newspaper article about the creation of the Gwen Taylor Memorial Library as a community library in Newtown Robinson. The library was conceived after the Newton Robinson branch of the Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library was closed.

"The Gwen Taylor Memorial Library is an example of what a community can achieve, when it pulls together. The community library in Newton Robinson was opened by residents of the hamlet, after the local branch of the Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library was closed by the Library Board..."