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Librarian Augusta Baker showing a copy of Ellen Tarry's "Janie Belle" to a young girl, at the 135th Street (now Countee Cullen) Branch Library of the New York Public Library in Harlem, New York, around 1941. Courtesy NYPL

Librarian Augusta Baker showing a copy of Ellen Tarry’s Janie Belle to a young girl, at the 135th Street (now Countee Cullen) Branch Library of the New York Public Library in Harlem, New York, around 1941.

Photo: Courtesy NYPL

Librarian Augusta Baker showing a copy of Ellen Tarry’s “Janie Belle” to a young girl, at the 135th Street (now Countee Cullen) Branch Library of the New York Public Library in Harlem, New York, around 1941.

Courtesy NYPL