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- The Founders’ first library was a schoolroom in what is now the Masonic Temple on the corner of Kenwood Avenue and Adams Street. (1950, photo credit Dillenback; courtesy Ann VanDervort)
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- An early fundraiser for a fledgling library: music and a lantern-slide lecture in 1914 (Bethlehem Public Library archives)
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- The cast of What Became of Parker: a farce-comedy in four acts, penned in 1898 by Maurice Hageman. The play was staged by the Progress Club in 1916 as a fundraiser for the new library building. All the parts were played by women. (Bethlehem Public Library archives)
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- Delmar Public Library’s first “official” librarian Eula Hallam, c. 1933 (Bethlehem Public Library archives)
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- Progress Club members Mrs. Murray Klingaman and Mrs. Anthony Proto relax during an antiques exhibition held in the library community room in 1961. The event was a fundraiser for the third and final extension of the library building at Hawthorne and Adams. (Bethlehem Public Library archives)
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- Delmar Progress Club float, 1976 Bethlehem Memorial Day Parade (Bethlehem Public Library archives)