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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated January 23, 1961 reads, "Mrs. Harrold Binnard, center, hands one of 150 books headed for Bupyong, Korea, to Burbank Mayor Newell Cooper as Mrs. Ralph Johnot, Burbank PTA Book Project chairman, reads another. Mrs. Binnard, who is chairman of the citywide project that was backed by the PTA, American Legion Auxiliary, Women of the Moose and the La Cadena Women's club, said that the collection was started after Lee Chang Kun, a Korean student, requested books written in English to start a library in his hometown."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
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