Doc's Legacy: Fifty Years of Photographic Inquiry
Illinois State Museum - January 18 through March 29, 1998

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Children's Books on Photography
Ages 9-12

Click: Fun With Photography. Susanna Price and Tim Stephens, Sterling Publications. ISBN: 0806995416.

First Photos: How Kids Can Take Great Pictures.
Art Evans, Photo Data Research, 1993. ISBN: 0962650870.

Looking at Photographs: People. Jaques Lowe and A.D. Coleman, 1995. ISBN: 0811804461.

A Piece of Peace: Kids Share Their Lives Through Poetry, Art and Photography. Beth Kerensky (ed.), Font and Center Publishers. ISBN: 1883280052.

Ages 4-8

All Around Town: The Photographs of Richard Samuel Roberts. Richard Samuel Roberts and Diane Johnson. Henry Holt & Co. 32 pgs. ISBN: 0805054561.

My First Photography Book. Dave King and David King. Dorling-Kindersley, 1994. 48 pgs. ISBN 1564586731

Shadow Play: Making Pictures with Light and Lenses. Bernie Zubrowski. Beech Tree Books. 11 pgs. (Boston Childrens Museum Activity Book) ISBN: 0688132111

Careers and Occupations
Ages 4-8

Doctors. Children's Press, 1997. ISBN: 0516205013

l Am a Firefighter. Cynthia Benjamin. Barrons Juveniles, 1995. ISBN: 0812065387

I Am a Police Officer. Cynthia Benjamin. Barrons Juveniles, 1995. ISBN: 0812064380

People at Work. Bobbi D. Kalman. Crabtree Publications. ISBN: 0865050686

When I Grow Up I Want to Be. Blaise Douglas.Candlewick Press, 1997. ISBN: 0736302302 (as you read place a photo of your face on each illustration, the better to imagine yourself in that career)

Negro League Baseball
Ages 9-12

Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues. Pat McKissack, et al. Scholastic Trade, 1996. ISBN: 0590458108

Coco Grimes. Mary Stolz. Harpercrest, 1994. Historical fiction. ISBN: 0060242337

Leagues Apart: the Men and Times of the Negro Baseball Leagues. Lawrence Ritter. William Morrow & Co. Library, 1995. ISBN: 0688133177

The Story of Negro League Baseball. William Brashler. Ticknor & Fields, 1994. ISBN: 0395697212

Website for Negro Baseball Leagues at https://www.blackbaseball.com


Websites on Photography

The Exploratorium: A Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception at https://www.exploratorium.edu/light_walk/camera_todo.html

Pinhole Gallery at https://www.pinhole.org


The Getty, ArtsEdNet at https://www.artsdnet.getty.edu/ArtsEdNet/Browsing/Kids/index.html


Websites on African American History

https://www.detnews.com/1997/metrox/maah/index.html
--- temporary site for the Museum of African American History, Detroit.

https://www.afroam.org/history/history.html
-- Afro-American Newspaper Co. of Baltimore, MD


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