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Box 9

 Container

Contains 5 Results:

Helen E. Perkins and Frances Grier photograph scrapbook of International Paper Dolls (Addition 33) 2024-0043, 1904-1939

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents 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...
Dates: 1904-1939

Melba Tice handcrafted notebook titled "Punctuation Party" that uses racial and stereotypical nomenclature and depictions such as "Mammy" and Clorinda Colon as an old maid (Addition 30) 2024-0019, 1920

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents 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...
Dates: 1920

One brad-bound scrapbook titled Hygiene about healthy living practices for young girls (Addition 29) 2024-0018, 1926

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents 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...
Dates: 1926

Resolution for the Alnwick Victory Infant School (Addition 31) 2024-0020, 1838 August 15

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1838 August 15

Pamphlets on puberty and sexual development, childhood diseases, motherhood, birth control, and nutrition (Addition 32) 2024-0029

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 4-5
Scope and Contents 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...
Dates: 1700-2014