Peninsula Community Library Collection

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Title

Peninsula Community Library Collection

Subject

Libraries--Michigan.

Description

This collection contains images and documents from various events in the history of the Peninsula Community Library, Traverse City, Peninsula Township, Grand Traverse County, Michigan. The collection includes the opening of the Library in its temporary location on the stage of the Old Mission School, on 15 July 1957, as well as various items associated with the current Library built in 2019.

Creator

Peninsula Community Library, Traverse City (Mich.)

Source

Peninsula Community Library Records, Peninsula Community Library, Traverse City (Mich.)

Publisher

Traverse Area District Library, Traverse City (Mich.)

Date

1957-2021

Contributor

Peninsula Community Library, Traverse City (Mich.)

Rights

Contents of this collection may be protected by copyright law. Contact the Traverse Area District Library for permission to reproduce, display or transmit these items.

Relation

None

Format

TIFF
PDF

Language

English

Type

Image
Document

Identifier

Various. Search within catalog at catalog.tadl.org.

Coverage

Traverse City, Peninsula Township, Grand Traverse County, Michigan

Collection Items

Peninsula Community Library, circa late 1970's
Photo of the library that was inside Old Mission Peninsula Elementary School. Marge Arney is seated at the desk. She was Director at that time.

Suggested Reading - Old Mission Peninsula History
Suggested Reading List - Old Mission Peninsula History

A virtual tour of the contents of the Peninsula Community LIbrary’s Local History Room. Hear the “coming to the Peninsula” story of the Johnson-Carroll family, and learn the history behind the room’s ancestral furnishings.

"Plan Library for Peninsula", 28 June 1957
"Plan Library for Peninsula", article from the Traverse City Record Eagle, 28 June 1957. Details the collaborative efforts between community volunteers and Old Mission Peninsula School to get a combined school and public library opened in the school…

Peninsula Community Library, 1957
The Peninsula Community Library opened to the public on July 15, 1957, in its temporary location on the stage in the school gymnasium.

Library staff of Peninsula Community Library, 1957
The Peninsula Community Library opened to the public on July 15, 1957, in its temporary location on the stage in the school gymnasium. Pictured are library staff, Clarissa Boursaw (left), Virginia Hubbell (center), and Deni Hooper (right).

Peninsula Community Library, 1957
The Peninsula Community Library opened to the public on July 15, 1957, in its temporary location on the stage in the school gymnasium.

Library Staff of Peninsula Community Library, 1957
The Peninsula Community Library opened to the public on July 15, 1957, in its temporary location on the stage in the school gymnasium. Pictured are library staff, Clarissa Boursaw (left), Virginia Hubbell (center), and Deni Hooper (right).

Library Staff, Peninsula Community Library, 1957
The Peninsula Community Library opened to the public on July 15, 1957, in its temporary location on the stage in the school gymnasium. Pictured are library staff, Clarissa Boursaw (left), Virginia Hubbell (center), and Deni Hooper (right).

Peninsula Community Library staff, 1957
The Peninsula Community Library opened to the public on July 15, 1957, in its temporary location on the stage in the school gymnasium. Pictured are library staff, Clarissa Boursaw (left), Virginia Hubbell (center), and Deni Hooper (right).
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