Box 10
Container
Contains 9 Results:
The History of Little Fanny manuscript and paper dolls (Addition 39) 2024-0070, 1849 March 24
File — Box: 10, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
1849 March 24
Frederica King Davis travel diary (Addition 36) 2024-0059, 1888 August-September
File — Box: 10, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
1888 August-September
Pre and Post Natal Advice for Expectant Mothers in America (Addition 43) 2024-0078., 1888-1960
File — Box: 10, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
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);...
Dates:
1888-1960
"Strong Bodies Sound Minds: Some Health Hints for the School-day Years" (Addition 45) 2024-0080, 1930's
File — Box: 10, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
1930's
Kiddie flowers: sample book of floral fabric potentially for children's clothing (Addition 38) 2024-0061 , 1940
File — Box: 10, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1940
Your Child's Development - Infant to 16 years. (Addition 44) 2024-0079, 1958
File — Box: 10, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
1958
"Doors to Open" a guide for young people including advice for LGBTQIA (Addition 37) 2024-0060, 1963
File — Box: 10, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
1963
Pamphlets on Childhood Care from insurance companies (Addition 34) 2024-0057, 1913-1974
File — Box: 10, Folder: 1-3
Scope and Contents
"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...
Dates:
1913-1974
Louisa J. Pratt pocket diary (Addition 35) 2024-0058, [1859]
File — Box: 10, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
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, New York 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...
Dates:
[1859]