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This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a game titled "Judy's Neighbors: Negro Family." It includes two dimensional pressed wood figures of an African-American family including mother, father, daughter, and two sons. There are also stands for the figures. Judy's Neighbors was released sometime between 1963 and 1964.This was part of a series and was sold individually and in sets. Teachers used the game to encourage racial diversity.

This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a sample book titled "Kiddie flowers" consisting of eight mounted samples of floral fabric potentially for children's clothing.

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."

This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains one volume of an anonymous bereavement commonplace book, dated 1856 and 1874. The manuscript consists of ninety-eight pages of writing, with the rest left blank. The manuscript contains writings by three different women. The first (and most extensive) is by an unnamed governess who writes of the loss of a child in her care, Harry. Her spidery handwriting is even and accomplished, and her use of "thee" and "thou" throughout suggests she may have been a Quaker. For thirty pages, she expresses her heartfelt love for the child and her grief during Harry's decline. She describes her memories of the boy and his siblings and details the boy's last illness, of about six days' duration, and death.

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.

This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a spiral-bound sketchbook belonging to an unnamed art student, most likely living in New York City. Page one of the sketchbook details the student's assignment: "DUE - 300 by June 2nd, Marked Chronologically." Traces of what may be an owner's name and grades of "B" and "B+" are written on the cover. Each sketch is numbered in pencil and is stamped between March and June 1952. The sketchbook's seventy leaves have drawings only on the recto. Drawings are completed in pencil, ink, and crayon. This student's sketches are primarily figure studies of those in transit on the subway. Other scenes include a roller derby skater, pin-up figure, river traffic with a bridge, a parked car, a cat, and exotic animals.

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.

Addition 8 of MSS 16758,The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a signed broadside print (11 X 8.5 inches) titled "My Life Matters" by the artist and muralist LMNOPI.

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.

Addition 15 of MSS 16758, the University of Virginia Collection on Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains twenty-five nursery rhyme handkerchiefs.