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 12 Collections and/or Records:
Advertising pamphlets for child products (toothpaste, rennet powder, milk) (Addition 16) 2023-0143, 1924-1943
File — Box 8: [Barcode: X032762265], Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Addition 16 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains three advertising pamphlets that pertain to parents purchasing products for their children. "The Tinies that Live in a Tube" advertises toothpaste, "Flibitty Jibblit" advertises rennet powder, and "The New Boss in the House" promotes the Pittsburgh District Dairy Council. Each uses imagery of children and parents utilizing the respective product.
Dates:
1924-1943
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
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
Judy's Neighbors: Negro Family: set of wooden African American figures and stands (Addition 26) 2023-0195, 1964
File — Flat_box 2: [Barcode: X032762380]
Scope and Contents
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a game titled "Judy's Neighbors: Negro Family." It includes two dimensional pressed wood figures of an African-American family including mother, father, daughter, and two sons. There are also stands for the figures. Judy's Neighbors was released sometime between 1963 and 1964.This was part of a series and was sold individually and in sets. Teachers used the...
Dates:
1964
Kiddie flowers: sample book of floral fabric potentially for children's clothing (Addition 38) 2024-0061 , 1940
File — Box 10: [Barcode: X032669465], Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a sample book titled "Kiddie flowers" consisting of eight mounted samples of floral fabric potentially for children's clothing.
Dates:
1940
Nature Camp records-addition 1
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2023-0083
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1935-2021
Pamphlets on Child Welfare including government and charitable programs (Addition 1) 2023-0050, 1830-1960, bulk: 1880-1925
File — Box 1: [Barcode: X032669457], Folder: 4-11
Scope and Contents
This addition 1 of the collection includes sixty-six pamphlets, advertisements, correspondence, programs, postcards, ephemera, and literature on children's welfare, including government and charitable programs. While the collection spans from the 1830s to the 1960s, the bulk date between 1880 and 1925. Categories of content include advertisements that used depictions of poor children to sell their products as well as those that promoted children's charities; pro and...
Dates:
1830-1960; Majority of material found within 1880-1925
Pamphlets on Child Welfare including government and charitable programs (Addition 1) 2023-0050, 1830-1960
File — Box 2: [Barcode: X032669458], Folder: 1-4
Scope and Contents
This collection includes sixty-six pamphlets, advertisements, correspondence, programs, postcards, ephemera, and literature on children's welfare, including government and charitable programs. While the collection spans from the 1830s to the 1960s, the bulk dates are between 1880 and 1925. Categories of content include advertisements that used depictions of poor children to sell their products as well as those that promoted children's charities; pro and con literature...
Dates:
1830-1960
Publications, advertising trading cards, volvelle (color wheels), and posters about Mothers and Children (Addition 11) 2023-0119, 1857-1967
File — Box 3: [Barcode: X032669459], Folder: 1-8
Scope and Contents
This addition 11 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains publications, metamorphic trading cards, volvelle (color wheels), and posters. Topics include motherhood, instructional materials on children's behaviour, toilet training, adolescent health, soil conservation for children, and a book about the the education for blind children. Folder 1 contains folded out (metamorphic) advertisements for...
Dates:
1857-1967
Teaching archive of Mrs. Florence Tuttle Baldwin and other printed materials (Addition 13) 2023-0134, (1899)-1955
File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
(1899)-1955
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 as it is being actively archived
Dates:
1700-2014