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  • Collection: Lillian H. Smith Story Project

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Children looking up at a bulletin board for programmes outside the Boys & Girls House (now the U of T Bookstore).

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Kids waiting patiently to check out books at the Boys and Girls House.

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Librarian Rita Cox telling a story at the Boys and Girls House. Ms. Cox pioneered the the Black Heritage and West Indian Resource Collection, now held at the Parkdale Branch. The collection was named in her honour.

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An interior view of the Boys and Girls House.

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Children waiting for story hour outside the Boys & Girls House in 1921.

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Children waiting for story time in 1965.