“Smallest library, now closed, Hartland Four Corners, VT 1994″ is part of the book “The Public Library” by photographer Robert Dawson. Images are presented in striking juxtapositions, including some taken during Dawson’s vacations in the Upper Valley. A 2009 photograph of the “nation’s smallest library,” assembled in Hartland Four Corners in 1944 out of two rooms from a sawmill office, sits across from the angled, mirrored matrix of Central Library in Seattle, an 11-story glass-and-steel building that opened in 2004. (The tiny Hartland library, deemed structurally unsound, has since been demolished.)
Smallest Library
Extracted from The Valley News, July 18, 2014.