Pamphlets on Child Welfare including government and charitable programs (Addition 1) 2023-0050

Containers:
Box 2, Folder 1-4
Extent:
0.016 Cubic Feet 4 legal size folders
Scope and content:

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 on child labor; booklets and annual reports on "Fresh Air" camps, Ocean parties; ephemera aiming to raise funds as well as documenting events on behalf of children's charities or causes; correspondence related to the welfare of children, and a government child welfare manual that gives instruction to parents or teachers on child welfare, child needs and development.

Language:
English

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

The collection is open for research use.

Parent restrictions:
The collection is open for research use.
Parent terms of access:
This collections contains some in-copyright material. Visit our Permissions and Publishing page (https://library.virginia.edu/special-collections/services/publising). For more information about use of Special Collections materials. The library can contain copyright material on request, but users are responsible for making their own determination about lawful use of collection materials.
Preferred citation:

MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Addition 1, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.