Female Librarians Delivering Books on Horseback

This article sure caught my eye. Female Librarians on Horseback Delivering Books, circa 1930s. Article from HistoryDaily.org. Love that the WPA created the Pack Horse Library Initiative to help Americans become more literate so they'd have a better chance of finding employment.

From HistoryDaily:

In the 1930s, many people living in isolated communities had very little access to jobs, let alone a good education for their children. In Kentucky, they had isolated mountain communities which could only get their books and reading material from one source… librarians on horseback.  
 
President Franklin Roosevelt was trying to figure out a way to resolve the Great Depression of the 1930s. His Works Progress Administration created the Pack Horse Library Initiative to help Americans become more literate so that they’d have a better chance of finding employment.
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HT: Taffy Cannon