Augusta Baker Picture Gallery

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Beginning her career
New York

 


Assistant Children's Librarian
135th Street Branch, Harlem
1939

 


With the Girl Scouts
1953

 

Winner of the
Dutton-MacraeAward
1953

 



1955



Christmas Television Program, 1962


Caldecott Committee Chair,1966
ALA Childrens' Services Division Chair , 1967-68


Coordinator of Children's Services
New York public Library
1961- 1974

Acceptance speech for the
Constance Lindsay Skinner Award 1971
Doctor of Letters degree from St. John's University,
June 4, 1978
     


"Make a wish."

 



Telling stories at Davis College for
USC's Showcase Carolina

 



With South Carolina Governor
Richard Riley

 


Doctor of Letters Degree University of South Carolina 1989.

 

 


A(ugusta) Baker's Dozen
An Annual Celebration of Stories
1986 -

 
 
With Marjorie Yenawine
1992


With A(ugusta) Baker's Dozen authors and speakers

 


A(ugusta) Baker's Dozen
friends and t-Shirts

 

Signing autographs at
Baker's Dozen


Augusta Baker
1911 - 1998