Teaching archive of Mrs. Florence Tuttle Baldwin and other printed materials (Addition 13) 2023-0134, (1899)-1955

This addition 13 (ViU-2023-0134)of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains the teaching archive of Mrs. Florence Tuttle Baldwin of North Haven, Connecticut (Boxes 3-7). Florence was born in 1854, married in 1881, and died in 1926. She spent her career at the Sixth District School in New Haven, Connecticut.

It is a large addition containing her teaching materials including her ruler (signed by her), book catalogs, lesson plans and educational books from map making to mathematics, grade book, periodicals, manuscripts poems and letters, art work, needlepoint, phonetical drill cards, flash cards, educational games, and family planning from 1899 to 1905.

In addition to Baldwin's teaching materials, other materials include a drawing book entitled "Our Chat" with stories by Ella Smith and Audrey, Yvonne & Clifford Evans; publications on vertical writing (handwriting), "Talks and Tales"; and five England-published pamphlets from the 1950s discussing family planning practices and contraception. Titles include "Modern Family Planning," "A Planned Family," "Planning a Family," "The Planning of a Family", and a Lloyd's Family Planning Centre pamphlet.

There is a 1934 New York-published pamphlet that discusses Zonite as a family medicine and feminine hygiene products. Titles include "Another Zonite Product for Intimate Feminine Hygiene;" "Facts for Women;" and "The real meaning of Antiseptic in everyday family life."

There is a flyer entitled "Please Give A Quarter" which promotes the Salvation Army's Fresh Air Camps published circa 1900.

Also included is a dating book belonging to a young girl titled "My Him Book" which has categories of "High School Hims," "College Hims," "Home Hims," and "Movie Hims" about her romantic interests, and denotes William Purdy as the "best of all my beaus" under the "Wedding Hims" section.