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A "birdhouse library," a miniature source for books in which citizens are encouraged to leave books they've finished and help themselves to those that interest them. Cheyenne, Wyoming

A "birdhouse library," a miniature source for books in which citizens ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This one is in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Such give-and-take containers are common in towns and cities across the United States. Credit line: ... More

A "birdhouse library." A a small, birdhouse-shaped free container into which books can be donated and freely taken. This one stands in front of a private residence in downtown Portland, Maine

A "birdhouse library." A a small, birdhouse-shaped free container into...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-11). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the... More

A "birdhouse library," one of several take-one, leave-one outreach boxes of the municipal library around Colorado Springs, Colorado

A "birdhouse library," one of several take-one, leave-one outreach box...

Photo shows a "Little Free Library." Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Libr... More

A "little free library," also often called a "birdhouse library," in the little town of Cashmere, Washington

A "little free library," also often called a "birdhouse library," in t...

These creatively designed containers serve as a give-and-take depository for books into which people are encouraged to freely place and take books. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the ... More

A "birdhouse" free library in the Pendarvis neighborhood of Mineral Point, Wisconsin

A "birdhouse" free library in the Pendarvis neighborhood of Mineral Po...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Birdhouse libraries are cute receptacles in which town residents and visitors are encouraged to both leave and take books to enjoy. Cr... More

A cute "birdhouse library" in Waveland, Mississippi

A cute "birdhouse library" in Waveland, Mississippi

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. These are receptacles for donated books to be left and/or taken by community members, usually in locations some distance from the near... More

A "birdhouse" library stand outside a pub in Ridgway, Colorado. These little houses hold books offered free for the taking, with the expectation that users will also occasionally leave other books

A "birdhouse" library stand outside a pub in Ridgway, Colorado. These ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

A "birdhouse library" in Madison, Wisconsin's capital city

A "birdhouse library" in Madison, Wisconsin's capital city

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. A birdhouse library is a decorative receptacle for the free "take some, leave some" exchange of books. Credit line: Photographs in the... More

A free, "birdhouse library," in which users are encouraged to take and leave reading materials in Como, Mississippi

A free, "birdhouse library," in which users are encouraged to take and...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

What is sometimes called a "birdhouse library," is a free library at which people are welcome to take and leave books, at the camp store of Indiana Dunes State Park, encompassing 2,182 acres of beaches, sand dunes, and marshes along Lake Michigan in Porter County, Indiana

What is sometimes called a "birdhouse library," is a free library at w...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

A "birdhouse library" carved in the Swiss tradition in New Glarus, Wisconsin, a town largely settled by Swiss settlers that now (2016) calls itself "America's Little Switzerland"

A "birdhouse library" carved in the Swiss tradition in New Glarus, Wis...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Birdhouse libraries are cute receptacles in which town residents and visitors are encouraged to both leave and take books to enjoy. Cr... More

"Birdhouse library," a small receptacle in which people can freely take and leave books, at Greensboro, North Carolina's Tanger Family Bicentennial Garden

"Birdhouse library," a small receptacle in which people can freely tak...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

A bird-house, or free take-one, bring-one lending library location, in Bartow, in eastern Georgia

A bird-house, or free take-one, bring-one lending library location, in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-5). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

A free give-and-take "birdhouse library" in downtown Chickamauga, a town in far-northwestern Georgia, made famous for the Battle of Chickamauga, fought nearby in the American Civil War of the 1860s

A free give-and-take "birdhouse library" in downtown Chickamauga, a to...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-5). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Even a sculpted gila monster appears to be into reading near a Little Free Library (also known as a "birdhouse library") in the modest Dunbar Spring neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona

Even a sculpted gila monster appears to be into reading near a Little ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Little Free Libraries, now found in thousands of American neighborhoods, are book repositories where anyone and everyone is invited to... More