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

This addition 13 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 in boxes 3-7. It is a large addition containing her teaching materials including 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, and educational games. There are also pamphlets on family planning and feminine hygiene, a flyer related to Fresh-air camps, and a dating book belonging to a young girl titled, "My Him Book" and much more.

The teaching archive contains materials compiled between 1899 and 1901. Also included is Baldwin's ruler, with her signature carved on its face. 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.

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

A 1934 New York-published pamphlet discusses Zonite as a family medicine and feminine hygiene products and included "Another Zonite Product for Intimate Feminine Hygiene," "Facts for Women," and "The real meaning of Antiseptic in everyday family life."

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

A dating book belonging to a young girl titled "My Him Book" provides margins under a variety of categories such as "High School Hims," "College Hims," "Home Hims," and "Movie Hims" for the author to include the names of any romantic interests. Alberta Miller records twelve names throughout the book, denoting William Purdy as the "best of all my beaus" under the "Wedding Hims" section.