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Reading is Recreation program's scrapbooks
- Title
- Reading is Recreation program's scrapbooks, 1992-1993.
- Author
- Dinkins, Joyce, 1930-
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 543 Box 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Details
- Description
- 3 lin. ft. (1 printbox)
- Summary
- The collection consists of three scrapbooks containing drawings, photographs, and expressions of appreciation by children who had been invited by Joyce Dinkins to participate in the "Reading is Recreation" program.
- Subjects
- Reading is Recreation (Program : New York, N.Y.)
- African American children > New York (State) > New York
- Drawings
- Children's drawings
- Children > New York (State) > New York
- Scrapbooks
- African American children > Books and reading > New York (State) > New York
- Literacy programs > New York (State) > New York
- Genre/Form
- Drawings.
- Scrapbooks.
- Source (note)
- Joyce Dinkins
- Biography (note)
- Joyce Dinkins, wife of New York City's first African-American mayor, David Dinkins, founded the "Reading is Recreation" program (1991), a citywide literacy program for school children. The program included visits by first grade classes to Gracie Mansion and school visits by Mrs. Dinkins. At the Mansion, authors, illustrators and celebrities shared their favorite children's books with the students.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 543
- OCLC
- 826039570
- Author
- Dinkins, Joyce, 1930- collector.
- Title
- Reading is Recreation program's scrapbooks, 1992-1993.
- Biography
- Joyce Dinkins, wife of New York City's first African-American mayor, David Dinkins, founded the "Reading is Recreation" program (1991), a citywide literacy program for school children. The program included visits by first grade classes to Gracie Mansion and school visits by Mrs. Dinkins. At the Mansion, authors, illustrators and celebrities shared their favorite children's books with the students.
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- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 543