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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Children

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on people from birth through twelve years of age.

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

African American girl's birthday photograph album

 Collection — Box BW 50, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16756
Content Description This collection contains a photo album containing fifteen original black-and-white photographs from the 1960s of a birthday celebration of a young Black girl and her family.Exceptional depiction of an 11 year old's birthday party with all of it's innocence, happiness and absence of the racial world that lives outside the doors of their grandmother's nice home.The children are wearing cone hats and there is dancing, presents, game playing, a birthday cake, blowing out candles, and an...
Dates: 1960s

Child scroll of cartoons

 Collection — Box 001: [Barcode: X031579400]
Identifier: MSS 16740
Content Description This collection contains a scroll of cartoon characters drawn by an unknown child, likely from sometime in the 1940s to the 1950s. The manila paper scroll is 3.25 inches in width and approximately 70 feet long. The outward-facing side of the scroll has about 250 individual illustrations depicting mid-century characters like Elmer Fudd, Dick Tracey, Archie, Popeye, and Donald Duck, as well as other characters from comic books, Sunday strips, television, and movies. The reverse is blank. The...
Dates: undated, c. 1940-1950

Nature Camp records-addition 1

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2023-0083
Dates: Majority of material found within 1935-2021

The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building-addition 1

 Unprocessed Material — Box MSS 16758_001
Identifier: ViU-2023-0050
Dates: Majority of material found within c. 1830-1960