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Additon 21 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains three pamphlets relating to childhood education and parenting. "The Nursery Chair" was distributed by Shepard, Norwell, and Co., Winter Street, Boston, and advertises various department store goods following a short story. "Bradley's Kindergarten Material and School Aids", published in 1906, advertises tools for learning shapes and colors, instruments for art, mathematical instruments, and standard inks, leads, etc. "Food-The Teeth and Health" discusses the ideal diet of a young person, published in 1930 by the City of New York Department of Health and Board of Education.

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."

This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a single pamphlet titled "Doors to Open" by Ellis Gladwin and Rama Braggiotti (illustrator) published by the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. It is written as a guide for young people but specifically addresses men embarking on college life and advises on new life changes in the context of conservative social constructs of the mid-twentieth century. Sixth in a series of booklets that dealtwith the tensions of everyday life.

This addition 12 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a friendship album of Jennie Lizzie Hoit (Dr. Jane Elizabeth Hoyt) made between 1866 and 1871 and a Pennsylvania German Mathematical Fraktur made in 1808 for Elizabeth Urban.

Florence Eleanor Paget (1887-1965) was a professional nature illustrator and artist from England who studied under George Vernon Stokes, a British wildlife and landscape artist. She made these books when she was a young woman, roughly between 1900 and 1910.

This addition (69) to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains fourteen pamphlets on the subjects of family planning, women's reproductive health, contraception, hildhood disease prevention, gender, religion, education, history published between 1892 and 1973. Many of these pamphlets were distributed as promotional materials by insurance or healthcare companies.

This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building contains one handmade picturebook of hand-colored engraved cutouts. A later inscription on the front pastedown reads, "Fait par la baronne de Chalancey née Delcey pour as fille Clémence devenue Ctsse d' Esclaibes d'Hurst." The book was was created by the Baroness de Chalancey for her little girl Clemence, born in 1797.

This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a travel diary of Frederica King Davis as she traveled through England and France during her 19th year. The bulk of the diary contains vivid and dense descriptions of her travel route, means of travel, companions, sites visited, and observations on art and culture; toward the end, she meticulously documents her allowance received, her expenditures, and the list of books she aims to read as a result of her trip.

This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains one pamphlet titled "Growing Up in the World Today: for Boys and Girls in the Teens" by Emily V. Clapp.(1946)