Children’s art
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered collections of art produced by children under fifteen years of age and or below the ninth grade in school.Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Fanny English manuscript and illustrations of Peter Rabbit
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762938]
Identifier: MSS-16959
Content Description
This collection contains a manuscript album created by Fanny Hutchinson King English (1871–1944) as a gift for her daughter Mary (1904–1976) in 1907, when Mary was three years old. A bookseller's ticket is affixed to the pastedown, and a gift inscription reading "Mary Dennis English. March 10, 1907" appears on the opposite pastedown. The album comprises twenty-eight pages of manuscript and watercolor illustration and contains three pieces of correspondence laid in. One side of the dos-a-dos...
Dates:
1907-1918
Fanny English manuscript and illustrations of Peter Rabbit
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762938]
Identifier: ViU-2026-0045
Hand-painted postcards, drawn in black ink, depicting children playing outside (Addition 2) 2023-0064, 1922
File — Box 2: [Barcode: X032669458], Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Addition 2 of MSS 16758, the University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains seven hand-painted postcards presumably created by Elisabeth, the sender. The postcards, drawn in black ink, depict children playing outside: a child pushing another child's sled; two children talking under a tree in spring/summer; two children playing with a balloon; a girl having a picnic with a bunny; one older and one younger girl in the snow; an older girl...
Dates:
1922
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: [Barcode: X032669463], 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
Nancy F. and Mary A. Hackett artworks (Addition 59) 2024-0105, 1840-1843
File — Box 12: [Barcode: X032669467], 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 the artworks of two sisters from Maine, Mary A. Hackett (1830-1908) and Nancy F. (1825-1883) Hackett. The works include watercolors, prose, a reward of Merritt, and two cartes de visite of their great-grandfather Hacket and Aunt Mary Hacket. The sister's parents were William Hackett (1780-1869) and Lydia Dutch (1793-1898). Nancy married...
Dates:
1840-1843
Paul Kenton Conrad's childhood cartooning album (Addition 28) 2023-0197, 1941-1944
File — Flat_box 4: [Barcode: X032762381]
Scope and Contents
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains Paul Kenton Conrad's childhood cartooning album and scrapbook. The sketchbook, a string-tied leatherette album, documents a young boy's self-guided attempts to develop cartooning skills. Cut-out tutorials from Frank Webb's "How to Make Faces" are mounted on the album's early pages, with attempts in pencil to follow their instructions. Midway through, Conrad...
Dates:
1941-1944
The History of Little Fanny manuscript and paper dolls (Addition 39) 2024-0070, 1849 March 24
File — Box 10: [Barcode: X032669465], 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
The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building.
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16758
Content Description
The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building is an artificial collection and periodic additions are expected.
Dates:
1700-2014
UVA History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building-addition 82_Children's Creative Works
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2025-0090
UVA History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building-addition 87 Child's friendship album
Unprocessed Material — Box MSS 16758_NewAdditions_04: [Barcode: X032784997], Folder: ViU-2025-0104_001
Identifier: ViU-2025-0104