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Seward Seaport Record
Seward, Alaska
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The Moose Pass Community Library has been completed and opened for use on Wednesdays and Thursdays, relocated from the school to a converted fuel shed on the Christensen place, funded by local clubs and residents with donated labor and materials.
Merged-components note: Continued local Moose Pass library development news
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Moose Pass Library
The Moose Pass Community Library has been completed, the books have been moved in and the library is now open on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday evening.
The library had always been housed in an extra room in the school house, but when that building was remodeled in 1953, the room was needed for school use.
The Territorial Department of Education donated the fuel shed from the school grounds to the Library Board and it has been turned into the library building, and is located on a leased corner of the Christensen place.
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The dis-banded Rifle Club donated $200 to start the library building fund and the Homemakers Club raised $105 with a quilt raffle and $60 in cash was donated by interested residents.
Labor and materials have been donated by Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Christensen, materials by Henry Wollf and labor by "Grant Lake" Kelly, Charles Clements and Delbert and Thurman Wolf.
Estes Brothers are donating the electricity that will be used in the Library Building.
There are about 1200 books for loan and new titles are added yearly.
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Moose Pass
Event Date
1954
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library completed and opened with approximately 1200 books available for loan; new titles added yearly.
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The Moose Pass Community Library was relocated from a school room (needed after 1953 remodeling) to a donated and converted fuel shed on the Christensen place. Funding included $200 from the disbanded Rifle Club, $105 from Homemakers Club quilt raffle, and $60 from residents. Donations of labor and materials came from locals, with electricity provided by Estes Brothers.