Box 2
Container
Contains 9 Results:
"My Life Matters" (mural of an African American boy titled, Miles) by the artist and muralist LMNOPI (Addition 8) 2023-0102, After 2014
File — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
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,...
Dates:
After 2014
Bilalian Child Development Center and the DAWAH Institute papers regarding African American Muslims (Addition 6) 2023-0100, 1975-1981
File — Box: 2, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
1975-1981
Hand-painted postcards, drawn in black ink, depicting children playing outside (Addition 2) 2023-0064, 1922
File — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
1922
American History Hektograph Posters (Addition 4) 2023-0080, 1926
File — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
1926
Boy Scout photograph album including a photograph of an African American man named Allen and a Girl Scout poster of rules (Addition 10) 2023-0104, 1917-1930
File — Box: 2, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
1917-1930
African American Nurses and Children photograph from the children's clinic at the Ridge Avenue dispensary in Philadelphia (Addition 5) 2023-0099, 1930
File — Box: 2, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1930
Two circulars promoting the American School Institute and Schermerhorn's School Agency, a diary, human hair, and ads for a carpet and refrigerator (Addition 7) 2023-0101, 1860-1923
File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
1860-1923
Jane Ehrhard educational games and coloring books (Addition 9) 2023-0103, 1888-1966
File — Box: 2, Folder: 11-13
Scope and Contents
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. ...
Dates:
1888-1966
Pamphlets on Child Welfare including government and charitable programs (Addition 1) 2023-0050, 1830-1960
File — Box: 2, Folder: 1-4
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
1830-1960