Oral memoirs of Elizabeth Orton Jones, 2004.

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Oral memoirs of Elizabeth Orton Jones, 2004.

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Collection comprises an oral history interview of Elizabeth Orton Jones conducted by Linda Long, Dorothy Knaus, and Hannah Dillon in 2004. It includes sound recordings, video recordings, and a bound transcript. Jones discusses her education, training, career, and works. Prominent topics include Jesse Orton Jones, Gladys Adshead, Nora Unwin, Elizabeth Yates, William McGreal, Donald Stoltenberg, and Crotched Mountain rehabilitation center.

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University of Oregon Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8003265

University of Oregon Libraries

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Jones, Elizabeth Orton, 1910-2005

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Elizabeth Orton Jones (1910-2005) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books. From the description of Oral memoirs of Elizabeth Orton Jones, 2004. (University of Oregon Libraries). WorldCat record id: 700516954 American illustrator and author of children's books; recipient ofa Caldecott Honor for Small Rain in 1944, and winner of the Caldecott Medal forPrayer for a Child in 1945. From the description of A prayer for little things : production mate...

McGreal, William

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Long, Linda, 1956-

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Yates, Elizabeth, 1905-2001

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Elizabeth McGreal Yates was born in Buffalo, New York in 1905. She wrote books for both adults and children, but is best remembered as an author of children's books. A notable success was her 1950 publication of Amos Fortune, a children's book based on the true story of an African prince who becomes a slave in America and later gains his freedom. The book won the John Newbery Award in 195l. She died in 2001 in Concord, New Hampshire.Biographical Source: Something About the Author, volume 128, p....

Jones, Jessie Orton

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Dillon, Hannah.

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Knaus, Dorothy.

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Crotched Mountain (Rehabilitation center)

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Adshead, Gladys L.

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Gladys Lucy Adshead, author of numerous twentieth-century children's books, as well as a successful teacher and school administrator, was born to James Frederick and Bertha Wilson Groome Adshead in West Didsbury, Manchester, England, on April 25, 1896. Her father inculcated in her a love of reading and openly avowed desire that Adshead would write children's books one day. In 1906, with the birth of her second brother, she concluded at age ten that she wanted to be a teacher for small children. ...

Unwin, Nora S. (Nora Spicer), 1907-1982

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English children's author/illustrator, born in Surrey, England in 1907. Emigrated to the United States in 1946 and illustrated more than one hundred books for other authors as well as writing and illustrating nine of her own. From the description of Papers, 1948-1973. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 26753834 Nora Spicer Unwin was born in Surbiton, Surrey, England in 1907 and studied at art schools and colleges in England. She worked...

Stoltenberg, Donald

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