Museum of Retired Library Stamp Pads
Harrow Bend, Minnesota · Museum · est.
Seventy-two ink pads in shallow maple cases line the walls of a former branch reading room in Harrow Bend, where the Museum of Retired Library Stamp Pads reportedly opens on the first and third Saturdays from 11 to 3, subject to volunteer availability. Handwritten labels identify each pad by library system, date range, and whether it was used for due dates, property marks, or the short-lived "media materials" designation. The collection appears to be maintained by the Crow River Regional Friends of Reading in cooperation with the basement committee of the former Carnegie annex, and the hook is immediate: one display case is reserved entirely for pads that were re-inked beyond recommended service life, with a typed notice promising a future interpretive panel on "bleed-through incidents of local significance." The front door sign still lists separate admission rates for adults and librarians, though nobody present could explain when that distinction began.
Field File · Pending Full Documentation
This location has been reported to Slop Obscura but not yet formally documented. A correspondent has been assigned, pending mileage reimbursement. Details above reflect the original report and have not been improved.