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MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building is an artificial collection and periodic additions are expected.
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Addition 53 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building contains one calligraphy manuscript of Hans Rudolf Gujer from Wermatswil, Switzerland. The book contains thirty-seven leaves in landscape format, in various colored inks and watercolor, with some use of gouache.
It also includes seven large original drawings; one is in pen-and-ink, and six are ink and watercolor; three pages of alphabets; most other pages have three compartments including ornately decorated capital initials, floral, figurative, and abstract ornamental borders and infills throughout; one page with music, and one with micrograph. The last leaf contains a full-page colophon of calligrapher: "Von Mir geschriben, Hans Rudolf guier, Zu Wermmet-schweil, 1750," with marginal calligraphic addition noting his age at the time of writing, "mein alter war 20 jahr."
The German texts of the album are religious: biblical quotations, prayers, and other devotional texts. Gujer was a relative of Jacob Gujer, a celebrated "philosopher farmer."
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building contains one handmade picturebook of hand-colored engraved cutouts. A later inscription on the front pastedown reads, "Fait par la baronne de Chalancey née Delcey pour as fille Clémence devenue Ctsse d' Esclaibes d'Hurst." The book was was created by the Baroness de Chalancey for her little girl Clemence, born in 1797.
Francoise Marie Gabrielle Delecey de Changey, who went under the nickname Fanny, was born in 1769 in Langres, Haute-Marne; she married Baron Jean-Francois Bichet de Chalancey in 1791, whose chateau in Chalancey was 30 kilometers from Langres. Their first child, a boy, died in 1796 at four; a daughter, Clemence, was born the following year. Fanny lived to age 77, and Clemence survived her mother by 20 years.
The book starts with la maison, the home, and it shows people, trades, activities, places, architectural details, animals, concepts, fictional characters, and various household people in various activities.
Indenture between Richard Cumming Weeks, the son of a plumber and brazier, to serve as an apprentice shipwright to James King, a shipwright at His Majesty's Dock in Plymouth, England in 1802.
The contract sets out conditions of Weeks' seven-year apprenticeship and his wages of five shillings per quarter to start with and a note signed by James King, increasing his wages to to "twelve shillings for single time" and to "one Pound a quarter for double time" in 1804 Signed by Richard, his father, and by two Dock officials, with embossed revenue stamps. The indenture measures 40X 33 cm/ 15.75" X 13".
This addition 1 of the collection includes sixty-six pamphlets, advertisements, correspondence, programs, postcards, ephemera, and literature on children's welfare, including government and charitable programs.
While the collection spans from the 1830s to the 1960s, the bulk date between 1880 and 1925.
Categories of content include advertisements that used depictions of poor children to sell their products as well as those that promoted children's charities; pro and con literature on child labor; booklets and annual reports on "Fresh Air" camps; ephemera aiming to raise funds as well as documenting events on behalf of children's charities or causes; correspondence related to the welfare of children, and instruction manuals given to parents or teachers on child welfare.
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MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 1, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This collection includes sixty-six pamphlets, advertisements, correspondence, programs, postcards, ephemera, and literature on children's welfare, including government and charitable programs.
While the collection spans from the 1830s to the 1960s, the bulk dates are between 1880 and 1925.
Categories of content include advertisements that used depictions of poor children to sell their products as well as those that promoted children's charities; pro and con literature on child labor; booklets and annual reports on "Fresh Air" camps, Ocean parties; ephemera aiming to raise funds as well as documenting events on behalf of children's charities or causes; correspondence related to the welfare of children, and a government child welfare manual that gives instruction to parents or teachers on child welfare, child needs and development.
The collection is open for research use.
MSS 16758, University of Virginia Collection of the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Buiding, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
1st part of MSS 16758. Twenty-three pamphlets about puberty for women. Some are directed toward mothers, while others are created specifically for daughters. Dates range from 1933 to 1981.
Earlier pamphlets discuss the process through storytelling, while later examples utilize more medical terminology.
Titles include "Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday" "Very Personally Yours," and "Growing Up and Liking It." All pamphlets are illustrated; some have calendars others have quizzes.
Each pamphlet was published by a manufacturer of women's sanitary products: Holland-Rantos Co., International Cellucotton Products Co., Kotex (Kimberly Clark), Modess, Personal Product Corporation, and TeenForm.
Included in folder 3 are two Kotex print blocks, used to illustrate their product packaging in marketing materials. This is part of an artificial collection, ie a collection of materials with different provenance assembled and organized to facilitate its management or use.
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 31, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
The resolution was passed at a public meeting on August 15, 1838. The resolution discusses the establishment of an infant school. It further describes how education benefits children in the whole community by establishing a desire to learn in children. The pamphlet also notes that parents will be free during the day to work when children are in school, showing a shift in the economic role of mothers.
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 59, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building., contains the artworks of two sisters from Maine, Mary A. Hackett (1830-1908) and Nancy F. (1825-1883) Hackett. The works include watercolors, prose, a reward of Merritt, and two cartes de visite of their great-grandfather Hacket and Aunt Mary Hacket.
The sister's parents were William Hackett (1780-1869) and Lydia Dutch (1793-1898). Nancy married Nathaniel Thompson. Census records indicate Mary never married and, as an adult, lived with Nancy in Kennebunk, Maine. Mary attended Union Academy and Nancy attended Limerick Academy.
Some restrictions may apply due to fragile condition of paper dolls.
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 39, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Collection (University of Virginia), contains one handmade juvenile manuscript titled The History of Little Fanny. Dated to March 24, 1849, the book features eleven pages of text with a watercolored cover. A set of seven watercolored paper dolls is in the accompanying slipcase, with each corresponding to a section of the written story. The reader can enact the tale throughout the story by changing Fanny's head between the paper costumes to illustrate her progress.
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MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 11, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition 11 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains publications, metamorphic trading cards, volvelle (color wheels), and posters. Topics include motherhood, instructional materials on children's behaviour, toilet training, adolescent health, soil conservation for children, and a book about the the education for blind children.
Folder 1 contains folded out (metamorphic) advertisements for children's clothing by Davidson Brothers, Solar Tip Shoes, E. G. Burrows, J. H. Baldwin & Company patent table tray, and children's knee elastic protectors (to protect clothes)
Folder 2 contains pamphlets "Training the Baby" published in 1931, 1952, and 1957.
Folder 3 contains five illustrated posters with instructions for children on cleaning and bathing themselves.
Folder 4 contains pamphlets for expectant mothers on how to care for their infants: "The Modern Baby", "Quiet, Baby Is Sleeping", "the 14 Days that can seem like a lifetime!", "Preparing Baby's Formula", "Keeping Baby Clean", "Modern Evenflo Nursers"
Folder 5 contains pamphlets from the Lysol Family Library, "The Scientific Side of Health and Youth", "When Baby Comes", and "Preventing the Spread of Common Diseases"
Folder 6 contains three color wheels
Folder 7 contains a pledge card for teenagers to abstain from alcoholic drinks and a card that outlines safety guidelines "Code for survival"
Folder 8 Publications: "Let's Save Soil with Sam and Sue", "For Bigger Boys and Girls", "Facts about the Education of Blind Children", "Understanding Your Teenager"
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 40, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
Compiled in 1858, the decorative title page Cahier d'Écriture par Mercier dédié à mes bien-aimés parents, the book features twenty-four calligraphy entries from a teenage student at the Grand-Classe St. Etienne in Saint-Étienne, France. The entries include the author's reflections on friendship, anger, anxieties, family life, hopes, and religious devotion.
Several font samplers are present throughout the book, as are full-color pencil-sketched illustrations. Illustrations include buildings, animals, people, and urban scenes. The majority of the calligraphy entries are bordered by an elaborate design, either pressed into the paper or drawn by the author herself.
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MSS 16758,The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 35, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a small pocket diary with ownership signature of "Louisa J. Pratt, New Paltz Landing NY" to front endpaper with an early 20th-century hand adding to pastedown and endpaper, "born 1846" and "13 years old."
The diary contains 366 pages in legible hand. It focuses on the many losses she experiences across 1859 and her youthful awakening to the numerous hardships the women around her confront. From parental loss to poverty to disease to mental health emergencies, the events of Louisa's 13th year were formative, and she turned to her diary as a place for working out private emotions that burdened her.
Louisa balances school, friends, and church with an increasing oversight of her home. More detail is given as the family continues struggling to keep domestic workers, and it is hinted that Mr. Pratt and the members of the church are drawing labor from girls pulled from the sex trade. Unprepared for the situations they find themselves in, the girls act out, have mental health crises, and ultimately flee which are documented by Louisa.
While grief, loss, and unexpected adulthood shape much of Louisa's year, she also reports the kinds of joys that remind us she is entering her teens. Her numerous friends, her love for sleigh rides and horseback riding, her appreciation for school and her recitations are cornerstones.
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MSS 16758, University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 7, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
Addition 7 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains two circulars promoting the American School Institute and Schermerhorn's School Agency. There is also a tri-fold trade card ad for a White Mountain refrigerator; an advertisement booklet for a carpet called "Something Under Foot" used as a diary by "Sara"; and a plaited hair sentiment with a verse from Charlotte A. Lewis which was sent to a girl named Maryann Gilman.
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Jane Elizabeth "Jennie" Hoyt-Stevens was born in Concord, Massachusetts to Sewell Hoit (1807-1875) and Hannah Elizabeth Hoyt, in 1860 and later changed her last name to Hoyt. She became a doctor, working as a Second Assistant at the New York Infant Asylum, as a physician at both Lasalle Seminary and Pillsbury Hospital, and as an intern at the New England Hospital for Women and Children. Jennie married George Washington Stevens in 1907.She encouraged a younger generation of women in their medical careers, including Mary Runnells Bird, and donated her family home, ("impressive mansion"), to the use of the New Hampshire Congregational Conference, reserving "a small upstairs apartment" for her own use.
In 1906, she represented the New Hampshire Medical Society as a delegate to the International Medical Congress in Lisbon, and traveled in Spain and North Africa during that trip. She met Gandhi during an extended visit to India, and published writings about her impressions of him in 1931. She adopted a son in Spain, named Abelardo Linares. She died in 1933, in Concord, New Hampshire, at the age of 72
The mathematical fraktur may have belonged to Elizabeth Urban as a gift from her tutor, A. G. Lees in Conestoga Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Urban was born on July 22, 1795 in Conestoga to George Urban (1740-1843) and Barbara Keagy (1743-1828). Educational frakturs are very rare.
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 12, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition 12 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a friendship album of Jennie Lizzie Hoit (Dr. Jane Elizabeth Hoyt) made between 1866 and 1871 and a Pennsylvania German Mathematical Fraktur made in 1808 for Elizabeth Urban.
The friendship book belonging to Jennie is small (3 X 5 inches), about 60 pages, and contains compliments and well wishes from her family members and friends.
The collection also contains a Pennsylvania German Mathematical Fraktur presented to a schoolgirl, most likely Elizabeth Urban. Fraktur is a Germanic tradition of decorated manuscripts and printed documents noted for its use of bold colors and whimsical motifs. The page contains a Multiplication Table and Pence Table, dated September 15, 1808, inscribed "Miss Urban, I have the honour to be your humble servant," signed A.G. Lees, Conestoga Township, Lancaster County. Initials EU appear in the intersecting hearts. The page is decorated with birds and flowers. The student was likely Elizabeth Urban, born on July 22, 1795. The table was probably presented by her tutor or teacher, possibly Alexander Lees, residing in nearby York County from 1779 to 1781, or Abraham Lees, in York County in 1785.
Jennie was born in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1860 and later changed her last name to Hoyt. She became a doctor, working as a Second Assistant at the New York Infant Asylum, as a physician at both Lasalle Seminary and Pillsbury Hospital, and as an intern at the New England Hospital for Women and Children. Jennie married George Washington Stevens in 1907.
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 25a, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Collection (University of Virginia), contains 23 pamphlets on early learning, education, adolescence, growth and development, health, prenatal and Infant care, and parenting.
The collection is open for research use.
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 60, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains pamphlets related to women's health, infancy, and childhood.
This includes 1. Woman's tried and true friend, Portland, ME: Caulocorea Mfg. Co.,c.1893;
2. Friar Medicine Company ephemera (5 sheets), 1901;
3. Taylor, Marion Sayle, "The seat of love and youth: plain truths for women, c.1927;
4. Taylor, Marion Sayle, "Body hygiene for women,"1928;
5. Williamson, George H.,"Personal hygiene for women: explaining the new hygiene which is bringing comfort, peace-of-mind and greater health and efficiency to the world of women," 1928;
6. Wells, H.J. (edited and published by)," Tennessee journal of medical and surgical diseases of women and children, and abstracts of the medical sciences,"1884;
7. " Wasting diseases: their causes, treatment, and cure," New York: Scott & Bowne, c, 1877;
8.Sheffield, Herman B., "The baby's record and health," 1913;
9. Olmstead, Allen S., "This will interest mothers: Mother Gray, the children's friend," c.1910.
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 51, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains one notebook kept by S.B. Coulson with notes regarding Friedrich Fröbel teaching approach and use of Fröbel gifts, which include play materials such as balls, cylinders, cubes, and tablets.
The instructors were "Miss Doyle," "Miss Symond," and "Mrs. Meleney," the latter being Carrie Coit Meleney, a student and later prolific correspondent of Maria Kraus-Boelté (1836-1918), a pioneer of Fröbel education in the United States and author of the textbook, "The kindergarten guide" (1877). The notebook also contains diagrams and illustrations depicting configurations of tiles and boxes. Several pages have been torn out of the notebook.
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 42, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS-16758, History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Collection (University of Virginia), contains six pieces of advertising ephemera. Included are: 1. Mrs. Prettyman's celebrated breast salve, c. 1866-1895, (3 advertising broadsides); 2. Celluloid starch requires no cooking, a die-cut point-of-sale display card with an attached cardboard stand depicting a baby seated on a pillow holding a paper advertising celluloid starch; 3. Display card for Johnson and Johnson baby powder; and 4. a pamphlet titled Your baby's diet: Heinz strained foods: their uses and nutritional values. (circa 1950s).
The collection is open for research use.
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 19, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
Addition 19 of MSS 16758,The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains one pamphlet: "Tennessee Industrial School for the Benefit of Orphan, Helpless and Wayward Children, Nashville, Tenn."
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 36, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a travel diary of Frederica King Davis as she traveled through England and France during her 19th year. The bulk of the diary contains vivid and dense descriptions of her travel route, means of travel, companions, sites visited, and observations on art and culture; toward the end, she meticulously documents her allowance received, her expenditures, and the list of books she aims to read as a result of her trip.
The diary offers insight not only into the type of grand tour provided to well-off 19th-century American women but also into the history of tourism, transport, and a history of artistic exhibits and art criticism, women's education in domestic accounts and budgeting, traditions in women's gift-giving and charitable contributions, the history of women's fashion, and the history of friendship and courtship etiquette.
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 43, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains pamphlets and booklets on pre and post-natal advice for expectant mothers in America. They include: 1. Information for expectant mothers, by Frank LeCocq Jr., and Albert Bostrom, Jr. (c.1959); 2. Instructions for expectant mothers (c.1959); 3. While I am waiting, (1960); 4. Mrs Winslows soothing syrup: for children teething, (c.1888); 5. Baby is king,(1890); Baby feeding made easier, (1956) accompanied by two pieces of ephemera "It's the nipple that makes the nurser, the Davol No.155 Nipple..." and "Terminal sterilization of baby's formula; 6. Pre-natal care: what expectant mothers should know, compiled by Obstetrical Department of The Western Montana Clinic (c.1955); 7. Your baby's formula (1953, 1955); 8.How food helps mother and baby, for parents-to-be (1954); 9. Modern methods of preparing baby's formula: practical suggestions by doctors, nurses, hospitals and mothers, (1954); 10. More nearly perfect: when baby needs milk from a bottle (1934); and 11. Prenatal care (1949).
Addition 63 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains pamphlets about women at work both in and outside the home. These include: 1."My busy week," Herrmann Hdkf. Co 1949; 2. "When women work,"[Washington, D.C.] : Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, 1921; 3. Trade card "Armour's mince meat and canned meats, c.1890; and 4. Trade cards: Two round cards depicting 19th century women and girls doing laundry washing by hand.
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 63, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
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MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 9, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a set of Courtesy posters to color, a Children's Aid Society Donation Circular, and educational game ideas handwritten and compiled on index cards by elementary school teacher Jane Ehrhard. The educational games are housed in two small commercial portfolios produced by Burgess Publishing Company for their line of printed educational games.
Contemporary ink signature of Jane Ehrhard on the back of both portfolios. One red portfolio is printed with the title "File O' Fun for social recreation," with Jane A. Harris listed as the author. The second portfolio is orange and printed with "Games for the elementary school grades: playground, gymnasium, classroom," by Hazel A. Richardson. It appears Jane Ehrhard has repurposed the portfolios. Both measure 18 x 12 cm and are bound with an elastic cord.
Addition 61 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains pamphlets on childhood growth and development and women's health.
These include: 1. Child culture before and after birth: truths of profound significance to parents and prospective parents, with illustrative examples from real life, Chicago: National Purity Association,|c.1895; 2. Caldwell, J.B., Pre-natal influences, Chicago: National Purity Association,c.1900; 3. Getting ready for baby, Bloomfield, New Jersey: Lehn & Fink, Inc.,1930; 4. Weeks, Mary Hezlep Harmon, How to tell the story of reproduction to very young children, 1910; 5. Mothers' clubs' and teachers' organizations' course of study, Cooperstown, N.Y.,: Arthur H. Crist Co.,c.1910 (2 copies); 6.) Wood-Allen, Mary, Great books for child instruction, Cooperstown, N.Y.: Arthur H. Crist Co.,c.1910; 7. Wood-Allen, Mary, Valuable books for parent and child (2 copies), Cooperstown, N.Y.,: Arthur H. Crist Co.,c.1910; 8. Stephens, Elizabeth L., Sacredness & responsibility of motherhood, Cooperstown, N.Y.,: Crist, Scott & Parshall,c.1910; 9. Stephens, Elizabeth L., Teaching Obedience, Cooperstown, N.Y., Crist, Scott & Parshall,:,c.1910; 10. King, E.A. The Cigarette and Youth, Cooperstown, N.Y.,: Crist, Scott & Parshall, c.1910; 10. What shall be taught and who shall teach it? 1907; 11. Mrs. J.H. Kellogg, Work as an element in character building, c.1907; 12. Rev. W.W. Cook, The father as his sons' counselor, 1907; 13. Mary Wood-Allen, Confidential relations between mothers & daughters, c.1907,14. Mary Wood-Allen, When does bodily education begin?,1907, 15. P.M. Bruner, The integrity of the sex nature, 1907; 16. Mary Wood-Allen, A friendly letter to boys, 1907; 17. Preg-No-Matic: the scientific calculator that takes the guesswork out of rhythm, Bridgport, CT: Brooklawn-Park Laboratory, 1956-1957; 18. Mel Johnson. Going steady, 1964; 19. Natural birth control: sane, safe and legal method advocated by Dr. Ogino, Dr. Knaus, and other prominent scientists, 1935; 20. Natural birth control: sane, safe and legal method advocated by Dr. Ogino, Dr. Knaus, and other prominent scientists, 1939; 21.What every woman wants to know about personal hygiene; Cincinnati, Ohio: Hydrosal Laboratories,1926; 22. Marvel syringe: Whirling Spray for women, c.1900; 23. Healthy happy womanhood: a pamphlet for girls and young women, Springfield, IL: Illinois Dept. of Public Health, Division of Communicable Diseases, c.1938; 24.Sol Gordon, Ten heavy facts about sex that your friends don't know, illustrated by Roger Conant, 1971; 25. Charles A. Clinton, M.D, Sex behavior in marriage, undated, and 26. M. Sayle Taylor, Ph. D., What's wrong with marriage?,1932.
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 61, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
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MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 13, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition 13 (ViU-2023-0134)of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains the teaching archive of Mrs. Florence Tuttle Baldwin of North Haven, Connecticut (Boxes 3-7). Florence was born in 1854, married in 1881, and died in 1926. She spent her career at the Sixth District School in New Haven, Connecticut.
It is a large addition containing her teaching materials including her ruler (signed by her), book catalogs, lesson plans and educational books from map making to mathematics, grade book, periodicals, manuscripts poems and letters, art work, needlepoint, phonetical drill cards, flash cards, educational games, and family planning from 1899 to 1905.
In addition to Baldwin's teaching materials, other materials include a drawing book entitled "Our Chat" with stories by Ella Smith and Audrey, Yvonne & Clifford Evans; publications on vertical writing (handwriting), "Talks and Tales"; and five England-published pamphlets from the 1950s discussing family planning practices and contraception. Titles include "Modern Family Planning," "A Planned Family," "Planning a Family," "The Planning of a Family", and a Lloyd's Family Planning Centre pamphlet.
There is a 1934 New York-published pamphlet that discusses Zonite as a family medicine and feminine hygiene products. Titles include "Another Zonite Product for Intimate Feminine Hygiene;" "Facts for Women;" and "The real meaning of Antiseptic in everyday family life."
There is a flyer entitled "Please Give A Quarter" which promotes the Salvation Army's Fresh Air Camps published circa 1900.
Also included is a dating book belonging to a young girl titled "My Him Book" which has categories of "High School Hims," "College Hims," "Home Hims," and "Movie Hims" about her romantic interests, and denotes William Purdy as the "best of all my beaus" under the "Wedding Hims" section.
The collection is open for research use.
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 20, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
Addition 20 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a Salvation Army "Help the Children" flyer from June of 1903 sent to raise funds for an outing for poor children in Columbus, Ohio.
The outing was meant to "bring some brightness, cheer and comfort into the lives of the poor children of the slums and crowded tenement districts." The plea was written by John M. Richards, Adjutant, and the flyer has a cartoon illustration of a children's parade as a decorative border. On the verso of the flyer is a letter written in German written by a woman from Columbus, dated September 13, 1904.
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 33, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, UVA History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, features one string-bound scrapbook with pasted photographs of dolls collected by Helen E. Perkins. Compiled between 1909 and 1939 by Perkins and Miss Frances Grier, the scrapbook features sixty-nine pasted photographs of dolls of varying origins. Each entry includes the doll's name, a number, their height, manufacturer, material, and place of origin. Nations that have dolls represented in Perkins's album include China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Holland, Ireland, Mexico, Morocco, Portugal, Russia, and Sweden.
The material culture of childhood aspect to this scrapbook gives insight into the importance playing with these dolls to the two girls. In several of the photos, they've created scenes with the dolls, even placing them all on the stairs for a "family portrait."
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 56, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, UVA History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building contains three pamphlets: 1.) Natural Science Camp (Keuka Lake), 1905; 2.) Boy Conservation Bureau (New York, N.Y.) [1930]; and 3.) Teenage gangs, New York City Youth Board, 1957.
4 items were cataloged separately in the print collection: 1.) Playskool Toys, 1956; 2.) J.L. Hammett Company, School Supplies 1928-1929; 3.) The First Public Policy Seminar from a Black Perspective, 1972; and 4.)Stylish Apparel for Expectant Mothers Spring and Summer, 1920.
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 41, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a commonplace book belonging to Ethel Shearer (1893-1952).
Shearer was a prominent artist in the mid-twentieth century San Francisco scene, being one of the featured artists at the opening of the San Francisco Museum of Art and Oakland Art Gallery. She was a member of the Society of Francisco Women Artists.
Her commonplace book was compiled when Shearer was between thirteen and seventeen years old between 1906 and 1910. The book includes invitations and greeting cards from Ethel's friends, newspaper clippings, clippings from various other media, Ethel's own handwritten entries, and pasted photographs. Drawings from Shearer are present throughout, calling to her future career as an artist.
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MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 21, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
Additon 21 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains three pamphlets relating to childhood education and parenting. "The Nursery Chair" was distributed by Shepard, Norwell, and Co., Winter Street, Boston, and advertises various department store goods following a short story. "Bradley's Kindergarten Material and School Aids", published in 1906, advertises tools for learning shapes and colors, instruments for art, mathematical instruments, and standard inks, leads, etc. "Food-The Teeth and Health" discusses the ideal diet of a young person, published in 1930 by the City of New York Department of Health and Board of Education.
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 46, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains leaflets issued by American motherhood magazine from 1907. They are: "The Ideal Mother" and " Confidential Relationships between Mothers and Daughters."
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MSS 16758, the University of Virginia Collection on Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 15, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
Addition 15 of MSS 16758, the University of Virginia Collection on Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains twenty-five nursery rhyme handkerchiefs.
Commonly tucked into story books, these were popular children's mementos between the 1910s and the 1960s. Most handkerchiefs are illustrated in full color and have sewn and colored borders.
However, six of the earliest editions are printed in black and white or sepia with raw edges.Most examples have sewn and colored borders, besides the earliest examples featuring raw, uncolored trim.
Seven color designs are by British children's illustrator Mabel Lucie Attwell; others are unattributed. Stories depicted by Atwell include "Little Miss Muffet," "Ding-Dong Bell," "Jack and Jill," "Little Bo-Peep," "Hush-A-Bye-Baby," "Little Boy Blue," and "Dickory Dickory Dock."
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 34, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
"Going steady" / by Daniel A. Lord; Tonsils and adenoids: is your child handicapped?; Good habits for children /|cMetropolitan Life Insurance Company ; [prepared with the cooperation and advice of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene]; Hearing, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; Common childhood diseases, New York: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company,c[1946]; Mrs. Winslow's diet instruction book for the baby. New York: Anglo-American Drug Company|c[1922]; Collection of Bank Street Publications pamphlets on early childhood education (35 pamphlets); Keeping the well baby well.Washington:U.S. G.P.O.,c. 1927; Out of babyhood into childhood: 1 to 6 years. Washington:U.S. G.P.O.,c. 1943; When your child's in the teens /by Edwina A. Cowan; Your child grows up,|cby Edgar A. Doll.[Boston],|b[John Hancock mutual life insurance Company],|1939; Between two years and six / by Richard M. Smith; Boston : John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., 1941. The healthy school child.Boston, Massachusetts : Life Conservation Service of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, [1940]; Count down to discovery!--3- 2- 1-year olds : child development, unit 2 / Alice T. Teddlie. Baton Rouge : LSU Cooperative Extension Service, 1972; Discover the wonderful world of 4 and 5 year-olds. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Agricultural and Mechanical College, Cooperative Extension Service,| c[1976]; The Student advocate, New York: American Student Union,c1936-1938; A doctor talks to 5-to-8 year-olds /|cby Dona Z. Meilach in consultation with Elias Mandel; Chicag :Budlong Press Co.,c1967; The care of the baby: prepared by a committee of the American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality and presented to the Association at its annual meeting held in Washington D.C., November 14-17, 1913; Your child from one to six / U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Social Security Administration. Children's Bureau, Washington, D.C : U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Social Security Administration. Children's Bureau, 1945; Your child from 6 to 12, written by Mrs. Marion L. Faegre, Washington, D.C. :| Federal Security Agency, Social Security Administration, Children's Bureau,c1949.
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 27, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, the University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a 9.5" x 6.5" wooden puzzle with a wooden frame and a glass window titled the Silver Bullet: Or the Road to Berlin.
Original metal ball and elements intact. Directions on the verso of the game. British dexterity puzzle for a juvenile audience, made of wood and glass. The game's object is maneuvering a metal ball through a winding course, avoiding holes, to the Berlin area. Although the topography of the play suggests the trenches of the Western Front, at the time of the game's creation, the troops had not "dug in." The title, Silver Bullet, suggests a quick victory and supports the view that the British public believed the war would be over by Christmas 1914.
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MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 25, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
Addition 25 of MSS 16758 The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building contains twenty-five printed ephemera, including pamphlets and advertising on topics include parenting, child development, sex education, public health, and care of pregnant inmates.
40 posters from the Hope of a Nation Poster Series
Feeding the majority of bottle babies.Mead Johnson & Co. of Canada, Ltd.
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MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 10, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains two items relating to scouting. The first is a broadside printing of the ten Girl Scout laws set among art nouveau illustrations from the 1930s. The second is a photo album compiled by a boy at Kerrville, Texas, with images of playing in the streets, swimming in the Guadalupe River, playing baseball, hiking, marching, and being at a local Boy Scout camp. The black cloth photo album contains fifty-two black and white photos, measuring 10 x 7 cm, with a caption on the album leaves.
There is a photograph of an African American man. (Caption reads, "Uncle Allen").
African Americans were often referred to as Uncle or Aunt even though they were not a family relative.They were denied use of courtesy titles."Aunt," as in "Aunt Jemima," was the term used for older enslaved women in the South who were not allowed by their white owners to use the term Mrs or Miss. The same was true for Uncle, as in Uncle Ben's Converted Rice. Uncle was used for older enslaved men because they were not allowed by their white owners to use the term Mr. The African American in this photograph is referred to as "Uncle Allen." It is important to recognize the use of these terms and confront the racism that is embedded in these white cultural terms.
Source: Green, Mark. Do You Know Why Aunt Jemima is Called "Aunt?" Why is Aunt Jemima racist? Here's exactly why. And I do mean exactly." Medium. Human Stories and Ideas. Acessed 7/17/2024. https://remakingmanhood.medium.com/do-you-know-why-aunt-jemima-is-called-aunt-5d111b0765a5
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 30, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This collection consists of a handmade notebook titled Punctuation Party by Melba Tice. The book presents punctuations as characters with rhymes and cutouts from 19th-century editions of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, as well as contemporary advertisements, explaining punctuation rules. Some punctuation characters are not from Carroll, and their descriptions illustrate cultural viewpoints of the time period, including a racist depiction of a "mammy' figure and a Clorinda Colon" as an old maid figure.
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MSS 16758, University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 2, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
Addition 2 of MSS 16758, the University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains seven hand-painted postcards presumably created by Elisabeth, the sender. The postcards, drawn in black ink, depict children playing outside: a child pushing another child's sled; two children talking under a tree in spring/summer; two children playing with a balloon; a girl having a picnic with a bunny; one older and one younger girl in the snow; an older girl on a swing; and a girl on a dock by a body of water.
Two of the postcards have written messages and are addressed to Miss Henebry and Miss Camilla Cole. The cards are postmarked Mount Kisco, NY, July 14 and 15, 1922. Both are sent in the care of Graham Miles of Alexandria Bay, New York.
Miles was a stockbroker and hydroplane racer. He married and divorced Louise Clover Boldt, the daughter of George and Louise Boldt, wealthy Philadelphians and owners of the Boldt Castle in the Thousand Islands. Miles and Boldt had a daughter, Clover Wotherspoon Miles, but Miles's connection to Elisabeth or the other children named is unclear.
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MSS 16758, University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 18, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
Addition 18 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains 7 pieces of pamphlets/ or ephemera. "What every teenager ought to know" by Abigail Van Buren; T"urn this page and do as this little man does" by Colgate & Co; "Ways to keep well and happy: booklet for upper elementary grades "by Ruth Strang; "Keeping fit" by the State Board of Health, Bureau of Venereal Disease, North Dakota; "Family meals at low cost using donated foods" by the US Dept. of Agriculture; "The gas cook book for young people"by Athens Store Works, Inc., Athens, Tennessee; and "The picture and rhyme book."
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MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 16, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
Addition 16 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains three advertising pamphlets that pertain to parents purchasing products for their children. "The Tinies that Live in a Tube" advertises toothpaste, "Flibitty Jibblit" advertises rennet powder, and "The New Boss in the House" promotes the Pittsburgh District Dairy Council. Each uses imagery of children and parents utilizing the respective product.
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MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 17, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
Addition 17 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains three pamphlets: "The Science of Prenatal Astrology" by Edwin S. McKeever; "The Space Child's Mother Goose" verses by Frederick Winsor and illustrations by Marian Parry. The third item is a pamphlet titled,"Reducing the new common sense way" about the Kryon method of reducing weight by Continental Pharmaceutical Corp.
"The Space Child's Mother Goose" is a personal copy owned by Arthur Schulman, an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia and one of the organizers of the American Civil Liberties Union in Charlottesville.
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 55, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains seven signs used to warn the public about the spread of contagious diseases and institute quarantine for diseases like smallpox, measles, polio, and diphtheria.
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MSS 16758, University of Virginia History of Childhood Collection, Parenting, and Family Building, Addition 4, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
Addition 4 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains the American History Hektograph Posters. These are twelve individual monochrome printed poster sheets, measuring 12 X 9 inches, featuring historical instances in American history.
Published in 1926 by Beckley-Cardy Company, each scene is intended to be colored, likely by a child. Each scene features suggested coloring methods, a title for the event, and a brief synopsis of the instance below. Scenes are typical origin stories, colonizers, and dominant white narratives and are examples of the narratives taught in classrooms circa 1926. The scenes are numbered 1 through 12, with each respective number placed in the center under the title. Events depicted: 1 - "Landing of Columbus," 2 - "The Mayflower at Cape Cod," 3 - "The Pilgrims Planting Corn," 4 - "The First Thanksgiving," 5 - "George Washington's Early Home," 6 - "Signing of the Declaration of Independence," 7 - "Washington as President," 8 - "Lincoln Studying by Firelight," 9 - "Lincoln Writing His Inaugural Address," 10 - "The Gettysburg Address," 11 - "Grant Made Commander In Chief," and 12 - "Digging the Panama Canal."
"Red Man" and a Native American "wearing his bright [British] red coat with great pride" suggests the presence of reparative content. "
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 29, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, the University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building collection, contains one brad-bound scrapbook with a "HYGIENE" stencil cut from the paper on its cover. The content discusses healthy living practices for young girls. Entries feature drawings, pasted images, newspaper articles and clippings, handwritten queries on health, and ideas on diet and grooming practices. There are 49 "chapters," each no longer than two pages. The corresponding pages for each chapter are presented in a table of contents at the beginning of the book.
MSS 16758, University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 57, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
Addition 57 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains pamphlets related to teenagers, parenting, and sex education. These include: 1.) The school lunch, Battle Creek, Michigan:|bEducational Department, Postum Company, Inc., (1928); 2.) Sex in life: young men, by Dr. Douglas White (1933); Sex in life: young women, by Violet D. Swaisland (1933); 3.) What parents should tell their children (1933); 4.) Starting to school in Kingsport, Kingsport, Tennessee, Kingsport City Schools (1953), 5.) How life goes on and on: story for girls of high school age, y Thurman B. Rice (1937); 6.) When children ask about sex, by the staff of the Child Study Association of America. Foreword by Marianne Kris (1953); 7.) Woman against myth, by Betty Millard (1948); 8.) The teacher and mental health [prepared by the National Institute of Mental Health] (1955); 9.)The safety zone:|ba frank talk with women concerning their personal problems (1940), 10.)Teen-agers and parties, Ernest F. Miller (1960), 11.) Tips for teeners by Antoinette Donnelly (c.1950); 12.) Think straight before you date, D.F. Miller. (1959); and 13) Teen-agers and dope, Howard Morin, C.SS.R. (1957)
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MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building-Addition 5 African American Nurses and Children photograph at the Ridge Avenue clinic in Philadelphia, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
Addition 5 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a single press photograph from the children's clinic at the ridge avenue dispensary in Philadelphia in the 1930s. The photograph is a group photograph of Black nurses and children in a clinical setting. A typed caption is affixed to the top right edge of the picture. No photographer or studio is noted.
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a pamphlet titled Strong bodies sound minds: some health hints for the school-day years (c.1930).
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 45, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains pamphlets on public health topics including syphilis and sex education. These include: 1. Management of syphilis in general practice, Joseph Earle Moore, in collaboration with: Harold N. Cole [and others], 1938; 2. Genitoinfectious disease control in Massachusetts, prepared by The Massachusetts Department of Public Health co-operating with the United States Public Health Service, 1940; 3. The diagnosis of syphilis by the general practitioner by Joseph Earle Moore, M.D., 1938; 4. Syphilis in mother and child,by Harold N. Cole and Philip C. Jeans, in collaboration with Joseph Earle Moore ... [et al.], 1940; 5.Your baby and the blood test law, Ernest B. Howard, M.D., c.1939; 6.Clinical excerpts, 1942; 7. Sex education for the preschool child by Harold E. Jones and Katherine Read, 1941; 8. Sex education for the ten year old /|cby M. Marjorie Bolles, 1941; 9. Sex education for the adolescent. by George W. Corner and Carney Landis, 1941; and 10. Sex education for the woman at menopause by Carl G. Hartman, 1941.
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 62, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 38, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a sample book titled "Kiddie flowers" consisting of eight mounted samples of floral fabric potentially for children's clothing.
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MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 24, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
Addition 24 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a booklet for the Davis Home for Colored Children 34th Anniversary located in in Pittsburgh. This promotional booklet is for the "34th Anniversary" of the Davis Home, a temporary home and day nursery for African-American children. Also of note in the booklet are advertisements for what are likely Black businesses that supported the home. Note says, "This book is dedicated to my mother, Mrs. Fannie Louis Davis, who was the founder of the Davis Temporary Home and Day Nursery in 1907, and organizer of the Colored Women's Relief Association of Western Pennsylvania in 1909. To my wife, Mrs Louise Scott Davis, President of the Davis Home for Colored Children, who has been loyal and faithful in giving her life toward the advancement of this home. To my friends, who have contributed to this Home in any way they could. Finley T. Davis, Business Manager."
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 28, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains Paul Kenton Conrad's childhood cartooning album and scrapbook. The sketchbook, a string-tied leatherette album, documents a young boy's self-guided attempts to develop cartooning skills. Cut-out tutorials from Frank Webb's "How to Make Faces" are mounted on the album's early pages, with attempts in pencil to follow their instructions. Midway through, Conrad branches out from these copies into creating his original subject matter, including army airplanes, sheriffs, pistols, cowboy hats, and a series of one-panel strips titled "Stuff that's funny." The artist, a Pittsburgh native who settled in Honolulu, would later become a successful lounge pianist and musician of some note in the 'Exotica' genre, releasing one well-received album ("Exotic Paradise").
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 48, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains one pamphlet titled "Growing Up in the World Today: for Boys and Girls in the Teens" by Emily V. Clapp.(1946)
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MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 49, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains pamphlets for parents and teachers about puberty and sex education.
Titles include 1. "Sex Behavior and sex interest in Children," by Louise Bates Ames (1952); 2. "When children ask about sex," by the staff of the Child Study Association of America, Sidonie M. Gruenberg [and others] Anna W.M. Wolf, editor, (1946); 3. "Preparation for puberty: a sex education manual for parents and teachers," written by Mrs. Linda K. Teller, illustrated by Mrs. Dorothy Teeters (1965); and 4. "Sex education in the home," Georgia Department of Public Health, (c.1950).
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a set of twelve offprints titled "Your baby at [1-12] months." There are twelve pamphlets, one for each month of a baby's first year of life. Reprinted from Baby Talk, published by the Parenting Group, New York, N.Y.Author: Beulah Sanford France (1891)
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 47, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a booklet titled Your Child's Development - Infant to 16 years.
"This booklet is based on recent studies at the Gesell Institute. Dr. Arnold Gesell, the Institute's research consultant and a household word to parents, founded the Yale Clinic of Child Development, which he directed for 37 years. Today, Dr. Gesell and his collaborators, Dr. Frances L. Ilg, a pediatrician, and Dr. Louise Bates Ames, a psychologist, carry on the pioneer work of the institute."
Published by Good Reading Rack Service, Inc., a division of Geffe, Morton & Griffiths, 76 Ninth Avenue
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 44, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 54, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains an original calligraphic manuscript of thirty variously colored linocuts, each by a different girl from a class at St. Helen's Norwood, London. Each linocut has the student's name below in ink. The contents are handwritten verses of Benedicte Omnia Opera. The title page notes, "Lettered, illustrated and bound by all the members of IVA." The endpapers are also original handpainted images of angels. Bound in original black cloth at the school by L. Hardy, D. Lines, and J. Scarth.
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 37, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a single pamphlet titled "Doors to Open" by Ellis Gladwin and Rama Braggiotti (illustrator) published by the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. It is written as a guide for young people but specifically addresses men embarking on college life and advises on new life changes in the context of conservative social constructs of the mid-twentieth century. Sixth in a series of booklets that dealtwith the tensions of everyday life.
Each segment has a hypothetical person encountering specific issues like overcoming shyness and finding social niches. Towards the end of the booklet, a piece titled "Girl of My Dreams" is a thinly veiled reference to a young man questioning and discovering an LGBTQIA+ identity. The advice is negative and clarifies that the hypothetical person should stifle these questions and stick to a hetronormative lifestyle, stating " "George is very unhappy, [and] needs help to cope with these festering needs. Otherwise, he may settle for a dim life, arrested by a succession of psychosomatic illness."
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 26, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a game titled "Judy's Neighbors: Negro Family." It includes two dimensional pressed wood figures of an African-American family including mother, father, daughter, and two sons. There are also stands for the figures. Judy's Neighbors was released sometime between 1963 and 1964.This was part of a series and was sold individually and in sets. Teachers used the game to encourage racial diversity.
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MSS 16758, The UVA Collection on Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 14, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
Addition 14 of MSS 16758, The UVA Collection on Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building contains two promotional posters (22"X6") for the 1965 and 1967 New York Children's Book Week. The art of Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Barbara Cooney made the artwork for the 1965 poster. The illustration depicts a fox carrying a stack of books with a crow overhead, looking down at the fox perched from a branch with the words "Sing out for Books" in French. The other poster from 1967 contains a linocut illustration of hot air balloons with a floating banner reading "Take Off With Books." Marcia Brown, the only triple Caldecott Medal winner, made the art for this poster.
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a photo album for the Morris Child Development Center for Infants and Toddlers. Founded by Earlene and Ernest Morris in 1965, The Morris Development Center for Infants and Toddlers was a Black-owned daycare located in the historically African American Bagley neighborhood in Detroit. In 1965, the center was the only daycare in Michigan licensed to care for infants and toddlers. The center survived and flourished; it allowed neighborhood mothers to work or go to school and served as a meeting place for community activists in the late 1960's and 1970's.
The photographs document the center's daily operations, including staff and children, and special events, including several photographs of its graduation ceremony and a special "Father of the Year" award presentation for the fathers of the "graduating class." The center closed permanently in 2005.
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 58, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
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Morris Child Development Center for Infants and Toddlers. Founded by Earlene and Ernest Morris in 1965, The Morris Development Center for Infants and Toddlers was a Black-owned daycare located in the historically African American Bagley neighborhood in Detroit. In 1965, the center was the only daycare in Michigan licensed to care for infants and toddlers. The center survived and flourished; it allowed neighborhood mothers to work or go to school and served as a meeting place for community activists in the late 1960's and 1970's.
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection of the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 23, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition (23) contains a three-fold pamphlet titled, "A Report of a Conference on Day Care and the Working Mother" for the Morris Child Development Center: State of Michigan Pilot program.
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Bilalians is a name used by early African-American Muslims. It refers to Bilal, a former Black enslaved person of Muhammad. Bilal's importance as the first Muslim muezzin, his ardent support for early Islam, and his favored status under Muhammad made him an important symbol of Black honor and dignity, major themes of early African-American Islam.
The Da'wah Institute (DIN) is the research and public enlightenment department of the Islamic Education Trust (IET) which has its headquarters in Minna, and Zonal Coordinators across Nigeria and West Africa. Its mission is to "strive in the capacity building and empowerment of other Islamic organizations and individuals involved in facilitating the correct understanding of the message of Islam."
Source: Oxford University Press. Oxford Reference. Accessed 7/18/2024 https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095505567
Da'wah Institute of Nigeria Accessed 7/18/2024 https://dawahinstitute.org/dawah-institute-nigeria-din/
MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 6, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
Addition 6 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains materials collected and produced by the Bilalian Child Development Center and the Developing a World for All Humanity (DAWAH) in Highland Park, Michigan. The Bilalian Child Development Center was incorporated as a non-profit agency in 1977 and appears to provide community services and educational services for the community. The DAWAH is an institute developed by a group of African-American Muslims in Michigan to develop an effective DAWAH program in America.
Contents include an advertising and enrollment form, two brochures for the Bilalian Center, and another for the DAWAH Institute in Highland Park. Also included are the contents of a binder for the DAWAH Institute. Separated by subject tabs, materials include handwritten notes and a typed agenda for the First National Meeting of the DAWAH Institute, an application of employment to the Institute, papers on Community Services, the A.B.C.D. Savings Program, a photocopy of a Western Union Mailgram to President Ronald Reagan, papers on the Food Co-Op & Gardening club, Home Garden booklet from the 4-H Youth Programs, Fundraising and Grantsmanship, invitations, brochures, news releases, educational programs, news clippings, and a curriculum statement.
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MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 22, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
Addition 22 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains 21 handbills and handouts on HIV and AIDS and LGBTQ health concerns for teens.
Some guidelines to follow in talking to teens about sex and AIDS/STD's -- Where do mermaids stand (From: All I really need to know i learned in kindergarten by Robert Fulghum) -- Bi-Friendly #40, October 1991, San Francisco, East Bay, and U.C. -- 1991 Fact Sheet / State of California Department of Health Services AIDS Prevention and Follow up Centers Early Intervention Program -- Continuing Education Questionnaire -- Continuing Education Agenda / UCSF AIDS Health Project, San Francisco, CA -- Antiviral AIDS drugs in the pipeline, 1991 -- Fact Sheet 1991 / [San Francisco] -- Syphilis Rate Soaring Among S.F. Teenagers / by Nanette Asimov, Chronicle Staff Writer -- Indications for Encouraging Counseling and Testing for Adolescents -- Special Programs for youth consent form for HIV testing -- Special programs for youth pre-test counselor sign-off sheet for informed consent -- A.T.S. Recommendations for youth and young adults / Adolescent HIV Coalition -- Referral list for HIV+ youth and young adults / prepared by Michael Baxter, Adolescent HIV Coalition Chair, San Francisco -- Youth and the HIV antibody test -- Project ahead / [San Francisco Health Clinics] -- Crisis alert: African American youth and HIV/AIDS / by W.J. Brandy Moore -- Some of the barriers that Latino/adolescents can encounter if they do seek health care and related services for HIV/AIDS / presented by Marisa Davis, Aids Health Project -- Counseling high risk youth / Ken Dunnigan, M.D. April 28, 1988 -- Youth and HIV: no immunity / Jane Shalwitz, MD and Ken Dunnigan, MD, circa 1983 -- Normal adolescent development / Parent Survival Kit, Denise Phelan-Desmond, Luanna Rodgers, Mary Isham, et. al. -- The ten mos asked HIV-Insurance questions / reprinted by AIDS Project, Los Angeles ©1988
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MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 8, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
Addition 8 of MSS 16758,The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a signed broadside print (11 X 8.5 inches) titled "My Life Matters" by the artist and muralist LMNOPI.
The signed print based on muralist LMNOPI's wheat-pasted street art, is originally produced in response to the Ferguson protests. Artist LMNOPI writes: "This painting was inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement which originated in Ferguson, Missouri last year in response to the police murder of Mike Brown. I have been doing a series of street paste ups around this movement."
LMNOPI found this image of a young protestor online, eventually identifying the child as a boy named Myles. The image of Myles warily clutching his protest sign (#DontShoot #Ferguson #YourLifeMatters), pasted up on the door of an a condemned factory in Bedford-Stuyvesant, became part of the community: "The wheatpaste of Myles was much loved by local residents. Often I would observe people taking photos of it on their way to work. I saw many people post it on Instagram. It even survived a local graffiti bomb squad who came through last winter during a snowstorm. They tagged up the entire wall, but did not touch Myles."
Source from LMNOPI's website: lmnopi.com/my-life-matters.
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MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 50, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains one handmade child's artist book based on Samuel Roger's Poem "Address to the Butterfly."
Unidentified youth creates a story beginning with a cardboard hand-cut apple; as the story progresses, a cardboard cut-out worm escapes the apple and begins to "eat" the pages before cocooning and then emerging as a pop-up butterfly.
Crudely bound with black leather over boards; a window cut out of the front cover allows the painted apple on page [1] to show through.
A small pocket mounted inside the back board holds five cards printed with Samuel Rogers' poem "To the butterfly." The pocket is stamped with "Address to the butterfly, Samuel Rogers."
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MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 32, University of Virginia Library, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library.
This addition to MSS16758, University of Virginia History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains thirty-four pamphlets on various topics, including puberty and sexual development, childhood diseases, motherhood, birth control, and nutrition. List of items: A Story About You, by Marion O. Lerrigo [and] Helen Southard [in consultation with] Milton J.E. Senn. Finding Yourself, by Marion O. Lerrigo, Helen Southard; medical consultant, Milton J.E. Senn. Approaching adulthood, by Marion O. Lerrigo, Helen Southard [in consultation with] Milton J.E. Senn. How to use My Bookhouse, Miller, Olive Beaupré, editor. Scarlet Fever, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (c.1925) Scarlet fever. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (1940) Whooping cough.Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.(c.1930s) Whooping cough.Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.(1921) Vaccination protects you against smallpox. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (c.1926) For your information about Rheumatic Fever.Rheumatic Fever Foundation, 20-30 International,(c.1956). Measles and their prevention. Richmond, Virginia, State Health Department (c.1965). Communicable diseases in Virginia: mumps.Virginia, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health (c.1967) Training is fun with Little Toidey. Juvenile Wood Products, Inc.,(c.1938) Smallpox is still here. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, (c.1939?) Rickets & scurvy. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (c.192-?) Good teeth: how to get them and keep them. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (c.1900s) Your baby book.Wyeth Laboratories, Division American Home Products Corporation, (c.1962) Women who go to school.Washington, D.C.National Congress of Parents and Teachers (c.1945) Childhood diseases. Prudential Insurance Company of America (c.1966) The prize winner. M.L.I. Co. Press (c.1935?) 52 bones in a terrible hurry.The May Co.(c.1950's) Height and weight tables for Children-Borden Dairy. The Borden Company (c.1920's) Variety gives nutritional balance. Stokely Van Camp, Inc. (c.1950's) A better start in life with meat.Nutrition Division, Research Laboratories, Swift & Company,(c.1950's) Tummy tingles by Josephine Beardsley; illustrations by Marjorie Peters. (c.1937) Lydia E. Pinkham's private text-book: ailments peculiar to women. Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (between 1878 and 1940) My views on birth control by Dr. B. Goodman. (c.1944) Wedlock and birth control: straightforward talk on a momentous and delicate subject by Dr. Grayling Stewart (c.1950?) A Book about birth control written by Donna Cherniak ; edited by Shirley Pettifer (c.1984) The age of romance. American medical Association (1933) Questions and answers about intrauterine devices.Planned Parenthood Federation, Inc.(c.1970) Secrets married women should know.America's Medicine (c.1930?) The new germcide Hyomei: positive cure for coughs, bronchitis, asthma, and consumption.The R.T. Booth Company (c.1906)