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"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 "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 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

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 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 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