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Teenagers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

"Doors to Open" a guide for young people including advice for LGBTQIA (Addition 37) 2024-0060, 1963

 File — Box 10: [Barcode: X032669465], Folder: 6
Scope and Contents This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a single pamphlet titled "Doors to Open" by Ellis Gladwin and Rama Braggiotti (illustrator) published by the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. It is written as a guide for young people but specifically addresses men embarking on college life and advises on new life changes in the context of conservative social constructs of the mid-twentieth...
Dates: 1963

Guides for mothers and daughters discussing puberty (1st part of collection) 2023-0049 , 1830-1960, bulk: 1880-1925

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: X032669457], Folder: 1-3
Scope and Contents 1st part of MSS 16758. Twenty-three pamphlets about puberty for women. Some are directed toward mothers, while others are created specifically for daughters. Dates range from 1933 to 1981. Earlier pamphlets discuss the process through storytelling, while later examples utilize more medical terminology. Titles include "Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday" "Very Personally Yours," and "Growing Up and Liking It." All pamphlets are illustrated; some have calendars others...
Dates: 1830-1960; Majority of material found within 1880-1925

HIV/AIDS informational handouts for teens (Addition 22) 2023-0178, 1988-1991

 File — Box 8: [Barcode: X032762265], Folder: 7
Scope and Contents Addition 22 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains 21 handbills and handouts on HIV and AIDS and LGBTQ health concerns for teens.Some guidelines to follow in talking to teens about sex and AIDS/STD's -- Where do mermaids stand (From: All I really need to know i learned in kindergarten by Robert Fulghum) -- Bi-Friendly #40, October 1991, San Francisco, East Bay, and U.C. -- 1991 Fact Sheet / State...
Dates: 1988-1991

Louisa J. Pratt pocket diary (Addition 35) 2024-0058, [1859]

 File — Box 10: [Barcode: X032669465], 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 a small pocket diary with ownership signature of "Louisa J. Pratt, New Paltz Landing, New York to front endpaper with an early 20th-century hand adding to pastedown and endpaper, "born 1846" and "13 years old." The diary contains 366 pages in legible hand. It focuses on the many losses she experiences across 1859 and her youthful awakening to...
Dates: [1859]

Pamphlets related to teenagers, parenting, and sex education (Addition 57) 2024-0102, 1928-1960

 File — Box 12: [Barcode: X032669467], Folder: 1-2
Scope and Contents Addition 57 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains pamphlets related to teenagers, parenting, and sex education. These include: 1.) The school lunch, Battle Creek, Michigan:|bEducational Department, Postum Company, Inc., (1928); 2.) Sex in life: young men, by Dr. Douglas White (1933); Sex in life: young women, by Violet D. Swaisland (1933); 3.) What parents should tell their children (1933); 4.) Starting to...
Dates: 1928-1960

John Gottfried Watenbach calligraphic sample book

 Collection — Box BW 58: [Barcode: X032668462], Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16913
Content Description This collection contains an oblong folio book (197 X 328 mm) of calligraphic samples created by Johann Gottfried Watenbach, of whom we have no information. He was German or Austrian and possibly a student at the time of the creation of the work. The book contains sixty-five unnumbered leaves, written on rectos only, in pen and ink, pencil, watercolor, and gouache, containing a title leaf, with the author's name and colored figures. It is bound in 18th-century half blind-ruled calf and...
Dates: 1748 - 1772