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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, Virginia

 Unprocessed Material — Folder ViU-2025-0053_001: [Barcode: X032762754]
Identifier: ViU-2025-0053

"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

Dolores Ann Smith autograph album

 Unprocessed Material — Folder ViU-2025-0052_001: [Barcode: X032762753]
Identifier: ViU-2025-0052