🎥 Big thanks to Sophie, Phoenyx, and Nick from NYU Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program for all their hard work this month adding identifying information, improving storage conditions, and making AV items easier to access. 📀

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#OnThisDay March 30, 1951: Bank Street grad students took the final post-WWII “Long Trip” to TN—exploring civil rights, labor, TVA impacts & community life. Explore the digital exhibit: educate.bankstreet.edu/exhibit/the-...

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Ask an Archivist! Submit your questions and we’ll dig into the archives for answers. You could be featured on social media or in the archives newsletter.

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#onthisday Holiday card from Bank Street's founder, Lucy Sprague Mitchell and husband Wesley Clair Mitchell featuring their four children: Arnold, Marni, Sprague and Jack, from the 1920s. Notice the book is the focal point 📖

Happy Holidays from the Bank Street Library! ❄️

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📣 Announcing the second issue of The Record, the newsletter from the Bank Street Archives!
Includes upcoming events, new collections, projects, and more.
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#onthisday October 30, 1864, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge was born. She was the wealthy cousin of Lucy Sprague Mitchell (Bank Street’s founder), and underwrote the school for its first decade. Below is her 1923 portrait by John Singer Sargent.

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📣 Introducing The Record, the new newsletter from the Bank Street Archives! Stay in the loop with upcoming events, new collections, exhibits, and more.
Full newsletter with clickable links: shorturl.at/rlJhf

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Sidney Poitier getting ready to read The Thinking Book

Old Bank Street College Communications Laboratory logo with a smiling red sun

Shirley MacLaine reading Noisy Nancy Norris

Diahann Carroll reading One Wide River to Cross

#onthisday in May-June 1968 many of the Reading Incentive Film Series were released. They showed well known adults reading popular children’s stories. Readers included Sidney Poitier, Shirley MacLaine and Diahann Carroll, all shown here.

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