This photograph shows President George H. W. Bush in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, reading the book “A Child’s Garden of Verses” to children gathered around him as part of Great American Read Aloud Day on April 19, 1991.
President George H. W. Bush Reading to Children on the Great American Read Aloud Day
- 4/19/1991
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This primary source comes from the Collection GB-WHPO: Records of the White House Photograph Office.
National Archives Identifier: 595948
Full Citation: P20897-23A; President George H. W. Bush Reading to Children on the Great American Read Aloud Day; 4/19/1991; George H. W. Bush Presidential Photographs, 1/20/1989 – 1/20/1993; Collection GB-WHPO: Records of the White House Photograph Office,; George Bush Library, College Station, TX. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/document/bush-reading-children/, April 19, 2026]
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