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Moira Dryer (Canadian, 1957-1992), Portrait of a Fingerprint, 1988. Casein on plywood, 122.2 × 155.6 cm.

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Vessel in the form of a horny toad, Colima, Mexico, 300 BC - 200 AD

from The Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University

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Wedding invitation from a dream

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Milo Hartnoll

Electric sheep, 2020

Oil on canvas

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Quadruped “Puppy”

Prehistoric Cave Art.

60th Unnamed Cave, TN

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Victorian home being moved by a boat in Tiburon, California in 1957.

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The Red Door, 1978

Isabel Quintanilla

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Milestone Monday

The King's Hares, from Norway

The Princess with the Twelve Pair of Golden Shoes, from Denmark

Queen Crane, from Sweden

The Rooster, the Hand Mill and the Swarm of Hornets, from Sweden

Ti-Tirit-Ti, from Italy

The Adventures of Bona and Nello, from Italy

The Hedgehog Who Became a Prince, from Poland

The Flight, from Poland

April 1st is the birthday of American librarian and storyteller Augusta Braxton Baker (1911-1998). Born to two schoolteachers in Baltimore, Baker was a voracious student who read at a young age and careened through elementary and high school. With advocacy support from Eleanor Roosevelt, Baker was admitted to the Albany Teacher’s College and in 1934 earned a B. A. in Education and a B. S. in Library Science making her the first African American to earn a librarianship degree from the college.  

In 1939, Baker went on to work as the children’s librarian at New York Public Library’s Harlem branch, founding the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Children’s Books to showcase representation of Black children and life in books, and beginning a lifelong career with children’s literature and the New York Public Library (NYPL). In 1953, she was appointed Storytelling Specialist and Assistant Coordinator of Children’s Services, quickly moving into the Coordinator of Children’s Services position years later and becoming the first African American to hold an administrative position with NYPL. Throughout her career, Baker was active with the American Library Association, and chaired committees for the Newbery Medal and Caldecott Medal recognizing excellence in children’s literature. 

In celebration of Baker’s birthday, we’re sharing The Golden Lynx and Other Tales, a collection of international folk tales compiled by Baker and illustrated by Austrian artist Johannes Troyer (1902-1969). This is the first edition of the book published in 1960 by J. B. Lippincott and is signed by Baker, who writes in the introduction, “No story has been included in this collection that has not stood the supreme test of the children’s interest and approval”. 

Read other Milestone Monday posts here! 

View more posts on children's books here.

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

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Sintra by Jaime Oriz.

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Garo (ガロ) / Seirindō (青林堂) / Jun 1994 issue

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African Ghanaian Fantasy Coffin Trade Sign in the Form of a Sneaker. Giant running shoe.

Material Culture

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Moon rise by Phyllis Shafer (born 1958).

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Candid photos of women wearing high heel platform shoes – Central Park, New York – 1973

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from photoshoot for tori amos' 1996 'boys for pele' album