Archive Record
Metadata
Accession number |
A2002.023 |
Collection |
Genevieve C. Taylor Collection |
Title |
Genevieve C. Taylor Collection |
Catalog Number |
A2002.023 |
Object Name |
Book |
Credit line |
Collection of the AAMI - Gift of Genevieve Taylor |
Dates of Creation |
1929 |
Access Conditions |
Open for research |
Copyrights |
1929- Whitman Publishing Company (Racine, Wisconsin) |
Scope & Content |
Item is the pages of a paperback book, 'Little Pickaninnies'. Nineteen-page paperback book, front cover illustration has little black boy in black shoes, white socks, blue shorts and a tie in front of blackboard and window, 'Little Pickaninnies' by Ida M. Chubb" in lower left corner. "Copyright 1929--W908 Whitman Publishing Co., Racine Wis." Color pictures and typed print on pages, back has three children, same boy from front holding small chalkboard, little girl in center with red coat and doll, right girl in green dress with ribbons in hair. "Little Pickaninnies by Ida M. Chubb." |
Biographical History |
Dorothy Mills, born December 30, 1897, attended Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls, Iowa, acquiring a one-year college diploma on August 29, 1919. Mills married Erwin Joseph Buess, a barnstorming pilot from Cicero, Illinois on December 27, 1922. They settled down in Coggan, Iowa where he established an automobile garage business. Their daughter, Genevieve Buess, born September 23, 1929, attended Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa for one year and then graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in elementary education. She taught in the Iowa City School District for seventeen years. On June 6, 1948, Genevieve Buess married Oren Jay Taylor, the son of Edward E. and Leona P. Taylor. Oren Jay Taylor, originally named Laurell Mork, is the son adopted by the Taylors on November 25, 1924, at The Willows Maternity Sanitarium in Kansas City, Missouri. |
Search Terms |
Children Recreation Toys Pictures Books Children's - Books Education |
People |
Chubb, Ida M. |
Creator |
Ida M. Chubb |