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Public Health Signage (Addition 55) 2024-0095, 1925

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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.

Dates: 1925

Nursery rhyme handkerchiefs tucked into story books, some by Mabel Lucie Attwell (Addition 15) 2023-0139, 1910-1960

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Scope and Contents 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...
Dates: 1910-1960

The University of Virginia Collection on Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building-addition 15

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Identifier: ViU-2023-0139

Cahier d'Ecriture par Mercier (calligraphy book) sharing illustrations and emotions of a French teenager. (Addition 40) 2024-0065, 1858

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Scope and Contents 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...
Dates: 1858

Advertising Ephemera about how to take care of a baby (Addition 42) 2024-0076, 1886-1950

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Scope and Contents 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...
Dates: 1886-1950