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Famous African-American women paper dolls / Tom Tierney.
LIBRA - Rare GV1219 .T5 1994 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tierney, Tom.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paper dolls.
- African American women--Miscellanea.
- African American women.
- African American women--Biography--Miscellanea.
- African American women--Biography.
- Women--United States--Biography--Miscellanea.
- Women.
- United States.
- Women--Biography.
- Genre:
- Trivia and miscellanea.
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 16 leaves : color illustrations ; 31 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dover Publications, ©1994.
- Summary:
- 16 well-researched dolls, each with one additional costume, depict Sojourner Truth, Mary McLeod Bethune, Zora Neale Hurston, Althea Gibson, Rosa Parks, Leontyne Price, Maya Angelou, Shirley Chisholm, 8 more. 32 color illus.
- Contents:
- Phillis Wheatley
- Sojourner Truth
- Pauline Cushman
- "Madam" C. J. Walker
- Mary McLeod Bethune
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Rosa Parks
- Patricia Roberts Harris
- Shirley Chisholm
- Althea Gibson
- Leontyne Price
- Maya Angelou
- Toni Morrison
- Barbara Jordan
- Judith Jamison
- Mae C. Jemison, M.D.
- Notes:
- Cover title.
- "'Famous African-American Women Paper Dolls' is a new work, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1994."
- "Cover design by Frank J. Moore."
- Sixteen costumed dolls each with one additional costume and short biographical sketch.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy 1 has Christmas paper doll card and envelope laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0486277542 :
- 9780486277547
- OCLC:
- 31745108
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