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Children’s Book Week, U.S. Information Center, Paris, 11/12/1950

Series: Photographs of Information Center Service Activities in Foreign Countries, 1948 - 1954

Record Group 306: Records of the U.S. Information Agency, 1900 - 2003

Image description: A table display in a library, with posters that say “MAKE FRIENDS WITH BOOKS” and sections for “FURRY FRIENDS” “SERIOUS FRIENDS” and “MYSTERIOUS FRIENDS”. 

Image 2: A closeup of the poster, which features an animal (could be a fox, could be an anteater?) wearing a fancy tailcoat, cravat, and fur cape. The animal is holding a book titled “CHILDREN STORIES”. At the bottom of the poster is “BOOK WEEK / NOVEMBER 12-18, 1950”.