African American children
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
"A Report of a Conference on Day Care and the Working Mother" pamphlet from the Morris Child Development Center Detroit, Michigan (Addition 23) 2023-0179, 1972
File — Box 8: [Barcode: X032762265], Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
This addition (23) contains a three-fold pamphlet titled, "A Report of a Conference on Day Care and the Working Mother" for the Morris Child Development Center: State of Michigan Pilot program.
Dates:
1972
Collection of African American Children photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16798
Content Description
This collection contains ninety-eight photographs of African American children and families at home and play from about the 1950s to the 1990s. Measurements range from 6" X 4" to 2" X 2" inches and are in color and black and white. Several subjects recur throughout the archive. All are unidentified; only three have any annotations on the back. The photographed figures, primarily children but some family shots included, are captured within their homes or playing outside. Activities include...
Dates:
Majority of material found within c. 1950s-1990s
African American Nurses and Children photograph from the children's clinic at the Ridge Avenue dispensary in Philadelphia (Addition 5) 2023-0099, 1930
File — Box 2: [Barcode: X032669458], Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Addition 5 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a single press photograph from the children's clinic at the ridge avenue dispensary in Philadelphia in the 1930s. The photograph is a group photograph of Black nurses and children in a clinical setting. A typed caption is affixed to the top right edge of the picture. No photographer or studio is noted.
Dates:
1930
African American programs and photographs from Roanoke, and Wytheville, Virginia
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762754]
Identifier: MSS 16901
Content Description
This collection contains four programs and eight photographs documenting mid-twentieth-century African American life in Roanoke and Wytheville, Virginia. Two programs for Debutante Balls hosted by “The Altruists,” a club for Black women in Roanoke, are dated 1954 and 1977. The Altruist Club program for 1954 has "Stella Ednise Miller" in blue ink on the cover. A 1958 pamphlet for a Virginia Congress Colored P.T.A. annual work conference held at Scott Memorial School in Wytheville discusses...
Dates:
1954-1977
"Davis Home for Colored Children" Booklet and Advertisements for other African American businesses (Addition 24) 2023-0183, 1941
File — Box 8: [Barcode: X032762265], Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
Addition 24 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a booklet for the Davis Home for Colored Children 34th Anniversary located in in Pittsburgh. This promotional booklet is for the "34th Anniversary" of the Davis Home, a temporary home and day nursery for African-American children. Also of note in the booklet are advertisements for what are likely Black businesses that supported the home.
Note says,...
Dates:
1941
Morris Child Development Center for Infants and Toddlers photograph album (Addition 58) 2024-0103, 1970's
File — Box 12: [Barcode: X032669467], Folder: 3
Dolores Ann Smith autograph album
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762753]
Identifier: MSS 16900
Content Description
This collection contains the autograph album of Dolores Ann Smith, an African American student from Roanoke, Virginia. The album’s cover is embossed with “My School-Day Autobiography” in gilt letters. Two black and white photographs of young African American children are at the front of the album, one pasted and the other tipped in. The names of Dolores’s teachers up to the eighth grade are identified on the “My Teachers” listing and a list of classmates. Seven autographs with associated...
Dates:
1944-1948