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UVA History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building-addition 74 printed ephemera

 Unprocessed Material — Box: MSS 16758_NewAdditions_02, Folder: ViU2024-0155_001
Identifier: ViU-2024-0155

Content Description

This material contains offensive or harmful language or imagery. The purpose of this note is to give users the opportunity to decide whether they need or want to view these materials, or at least, to mentally or emotionally prepare themselves to view the materials. This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains eleven printed ephemera. Titles include: Start the Boy Right, At what age should a girl be told about menstruation?, Women’s Troubles, “Just Between Us” -- with Menstrual Cycle Volvelle, At Last! New Freedom! - Dainty Maid, and six out of the nine Public Health Booklets issued by the California Department of Public Health about sex education in 1929. Those titles include: Four Sex Lies (for Young Men), When and How to Tell Children (for Parents), A Plain Talk With Girls, Secret of Strength, Virility and Physical Development [young boys], Virility and Physical Development [for young girls]

Acquisition Type

Purchase

Provenance

Purchased from Eclectibles, 2024.

Language of Description

English

Script of Description

Latin

Restrictions Apply

No

Dates

  • Creation: Date ranges from 1900-1961

Extent

.04 Cubic Feet (1 legal folder)

Language of Materials

English

Metadata Rights Declarations

Inventory

11 items