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Hand-painted postcards, drawn in black ink, depicting children playing outside (Addition 2) 2023-0064 0.04 Cubic Feet legal size folder Box 2, Folder 5

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 on a swing; and a girl on a dock by a body of water.

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

Melba Tice handcrafted notebook titled "Punctuation Party" that uses racial and stereotypical nomenclature and depictions such as "Mammy" and Clorinda Colon as an old maid (Addition 30) 2024-0019 0.04 Cubic Feet letter folder? Box 9, Folder 2

This collection consists of a handmade notebook titled Punctuation Party by Melba Tice. The book presents punctuations as characters with rhymes and cutouts from 19th-century editions of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, as well as contemporary advertisements, explaining punctuation rules. Some punctuation characters are not from Carroll, and their descriptions illustrate cultural viewpoints of the time period, including a racist depiction of a "mammy' figure and a Clorinda Colon" as an old maid figure.

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

Nancy F. and Mary A. Hackett artworks (Addition 59) 2024-0105 0.04 Cubic Feet Box 12, Folder 4

This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building., contains the artworks of two sisters from Maine, Mary A. Hackett (1830-1908) and Nancy F. (1825-1883) Hackett. The works include watercolors, prose, a reward of Merritt, and two cartes de visite of their great-grandfather Hacket and Aunt Mary Hacket.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building.
  3. Series 2. 1800-1971

Paul Kenton Conrad's childhood cartooning album (Addition 28) 2023-0197 0.26 Cubic Feet Flat_Box 4

This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains Paul Kenton Conrad's childhood cartooning album and scrapbook. The sketchbook, a string-tied leatherette album, documents a young boy's self-guided attempts to develop cartooning skills. Cut-out tutorials from Frank Webb's "How to Make Faces" are mounted on the album's early pages, with attempts in pencil to follow their instructions. Midway through, Conrad branches out from these copies into creating his original subject matter, including army airplanes, sheriffs, pistols, cowboy hats, and a series of one-panel strips titled "Stuff that's funny." The artist, a Pittsburgh native who settled in Honolulu, would later become a successful lounge pianist and musician of some note in the 'Exotica' genre, releasing one well-received album ("Exotic Paradise").

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

The History of Little Fanny manuscript and paper dolls (Addition 39) 2024-0070 Box 10, Folder 8

This addition to MSS 16758, History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building Collection (University of Virginia), contains one handmade juvenile manuscript titled The History of Little Fanny. Dated to March 24, 1849, the book features eleven pages of text with a watercolored cover. A set of seven watercolored paper dolls is in the accompanying slipcase, with each corresponding to a section of the written story. The reader can enact the tale throughout the story by changing Fanny's head between the paper costumes to illustrate her progress.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building.
  3. Series 2. 1800-1971

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