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Start Over Collection The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building. Subjects African American children

African American Nurses and Children photograph from the children's clinic at the Ridge Avenue dispensary in Philadelphia (Addition 5) 2023-0099 0.04 Cubic Feet Box 2, Folder 7

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.

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  2. The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building.
  3. Series 3. 1900-1980

"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 0.04 Cubic Feet Box 8, Folder 8

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.

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  2. The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building.
  3. Series 4. 1950-2014

"Davis Home for Colored Children" Booklet and Advertisements for other African American businesses (Addition 24) 2023-0183 0.04 Cubic Feet Box 8, Folder 9

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, "This book is dedicated to my mother, Mrs. Fannie Louis Davis, who was the founder of the Davis Temporary Home and Day Nursery in 1907, and organizer of the Colored Women's Relief Association of Western Pennsylvania in 1909. To my wife, Mrs Louise Scott Davis, President of the Davis Home for Colored Children, who has been loyal and faithful in giving her life toward the advancement of this home. To my friends, who have contributed to this Home in any way they could. Finley T. Davis, Business Manager."

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  2. The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building.
  3. Series 3. 1900-1980

Morris Child Development Center for Infants and Toddlers photograph album (Addition 58) 2024-0103 0.21 Cubic Feet Photograph album. 45 photographs (removed album and put photographs in sleeves) Box 12, Folder 3

This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a photo album for the Morris Child Development Center for Infants and Toddlers. Founded by Earlene and Ernest Morris in 1965, The Morris Development Center for Infants and Toddlers was a Black-owned daycare located in the historically African American Bagley neighborhood in Detroit. In 1965, the center was the only daycare in Michigan licensed to care for infants and toddlers. The center survived and flourished; it allowed neighborhood mothers to work or go to school and served as a meeting place for community activists in the late 1960's and 1970's.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building.
  3. Series 4. 1950-2014

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