This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Award winning illustrators share work and lives
Jan Spivey Gilchrist of Olympia Fields Illinois won the 1990 Coretta Scott King award for Nathaniel Talking her pencil illustrations mark her first major book project since leaving teaching of ten years She works from two home studios and uses models for her art Jerry Pinkney 50 of Croton on Hudson New York also profiled He has won the Coretta Scott King Award twice and Caldecott honors He works long hours at home with a disciplined routine and teaches at the University of Delaware plus stamps designer credits
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Jerry Pinkney
Caldecott
Croton-on-Hudson
N.Y