Publications, advertising trading cards, volvelle (color wheels), and posters about Mothers and Children (Addition 11) 2023-0119

Containers:
Box 3, Folder 1-8
Extent:
0.032 Cubic Feet 8 legal size folders
Scope and content:

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 children's clothing by Davidson Brothers, Solar Tip Shoes, E. G. Burrows, J. H. Baldwin & Company patent table tray, and children's knee elastic protectors (to protect clothes)

Folder 2 contains pamphlets "Training the Baby" published in 1931, 1952, and 1957.

Folder 3 contains five illustrated posters with instructions for children on cleaning and bathing themselves.

Folder 4 contains pamphlets for expectant mothers on how to care for their infants: "The Modern Baby", "Quiet, Baby Is Sleeping", "the 14 Days that can seem like a lifetime!", "Preparing Baby's Formula", "Keeping Baby Clean", "Modern Evenflo Nursers"

Folder 5 contains pamphlets from the Lysol Family Library, "The Scientific Side of Health and Youth", "When Baby Comes", and "Preventing the Spread of Common Diseases"

Folder 6 contains three color wheels

Folder 7 contains a pledge card for teenagers to abstain from alcoholic drinks and a card that outlines safety guidelines "Code for survival"

Folder 8 Publications: "Let's Save Soil with Sam and Sue", "For Bigger Boys and Girls", "Facts about the Education of Blind Children", "Understanding Your Teenager"

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 11, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.