PARIS – The 30th annual Founder’s Day to support the Hannibal Hamlin Library and Museum in South Paris will be held Saturday, July 19.

The showpiece of the charity event is the Bahre Collection of antique and classic cars. The collection, housed at the birthplace of Hannibal Hamlin, Abraham Lincoln’s first vice president, is open once a year to the public at the Founder’s Day event.

The collection of more than 50 vehicles includes one of the world’s finest assemblages of Packards. The Packard collection features Dietrich V-windshield body styles and LeBaron V-windshield body styles on the Packard 12 chassis for 1932-34, the one-off front-wheel-drive prototype sedan, a 1906 Model S touring car and other specialty Packards.

The collection highlights American classics such as Duesenbergs, V-16 Cadillac, Stutz, Graham-Paige and Auburn 12; foreign classics such as Delahaye, Isotta Fraschini, Hispano-Suiza, Rolls-Royce, Mercedes-Benz and Alfa-Romeo; and an eclectic grouping of brass-era cars (including two electric cars), a Tucker, a Harley-Davidson and later-model sports cars.

Along with the vehicles there is an antique doll and toy collection, horse-drawn carriages, player piano, old phonographs, table-top instruments and a jukebox.

Founder’s Day festivities will include music and entertainment, horse and wagon rides and a crafts and food fair. The charity event is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 19, on Paris Hill, rain or shine. Admission to the Bahre collection is $8 for adults and $2 for children 12 and under. Group rates are available.

All proceeds will support the Hannibal Hamlin Library and Museum.

Information and directions to Founder’s Day are available from the Hamlin Memorial Library at 743-2980 and online at www.hamlin.lib.me.us.