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This addition to MSS16758, University of Virginia History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains thirty-four pamphlets on various topics, including puberty and sexual development, childhood diseases, motherhood, birth control, and nutrition. List of items: A Story About You, by Marion O. Lerrigo [and] Helen Southard [in consultation with] Milton J.E. Senn. Finding Yourself, by Marion O. Lerrigo, Helen Southard; medical consultant, Milton J.E. Senn. Approaching adulthood, by Marion O. Lerrigo, Helen Southard [in consultation with] Milton J.E. Senn. How to use My Bookhouse, Miller, Olive Beaupré, editor. Scarlet Fever, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (c.1925) Scarlet fever. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (1940) Whooping cough.Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.(c.1930s) Whooping cough.Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.(1921) Vaccination protects you against smallpox. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (c.1926) For your information about Rheumatic Fever.Rheumatic Fever Foundation, 20-30 International,(c.1956). Measles and their prevention. Richmond, Virginia, State Health Department (c.1965). Communicable diseases in Virginia: mumps.Virginia, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health (c.1967) Training is fun with Little Toidey. Juvenile Wood Products, Inc.,(c.1938) Smallpox is still here. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, (c.1939?) Rickets & scurvy. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (c.192-?) Good teeth: how to get them and keep them. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (c.1900s) Your baby book.Wyeth Laboratories, Division American Home Products Corporation, (c.1962) Women who go to school.Washington, D.C.National Congress of Parents and Teachers (c.1945) Childhood diseases. Prudential Insurance Company of America (c.1966) The prize winner. M.L.I. Co. Press (c.1935?) 52 bones in a terrible hurry.The May Co.(c.1950's) Height and weight tables for Children-Borden Dairy. The Borden Company (c.1920's) Variety gives nutritional balance. Stokely Van Camp, Inc. (c.1950's) A better start in life with meat.Nutrition Division, Research Laboratories, Swift & Company,(c.1950's) Tummy tingles by Josephine Beardsley; illustrations by Marjorie Peters. (c.1937) Lydia E. Pinkham's private text-book: ailments peculiar to women. Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (between 1878 and 1940) My views on birth control by Dr. B. Goodman. (c.1944) Wedlock and birth control: straightforward talk on a momentous and delicate subject by Dr. Grayling Stewart (c.1950?) A Book about birth control written by Donna Cherniak ; edited by Shirley Pettifer (c.1984) The age of romance. American medical Association (1933) Questions and answers about intrauterine devices.Planned Parenthood Federation, Inc.(c.1970) Secrets married women should know.America's Medicine (c.1930?) The new germcide Hyomei: positive cure for coughs, bronchitis, asthma, and consumption.The R.T. Booth Company (c.1906)

Addition 63 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains pamphlets about women at work both in and outside the home. These include: 1."My busy week," Herrmann Hdkf. Co 1949; 2. "When women work,"[Washington, D.C.] : Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, 1921; 3. Trade card "Armour's mince meat and canned meats, c.1890; and 4. Trade cards: Two round cards depicting 19th century women and girls doing laundry washing by hand.

Addition 57 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains pamphlets related to teenagers, parenting, and sex education. These include: 1.) The school lunch, Battle Creek, Michigan:|bEducational Department, Postum Company, Inc., (1928); 2.) Sex in life: young men, by Dr. Douglas White (1933); Sex in life: young women, by Violet D. Swaisland (1933); 3.) What parents should tell their children (1933); 4.) Starting to school in Kingsport, Kingsport, Tennessee, Kingsport City Schools (1953), 5.) How life goes on and on: story for girls of high school age, y Thurman B. Rice (1937); 6.) When children ask about sex, by the staff of the Child Study Association of America. Foreword by Marianne Kris (1953); 7.) Woman against myth, by Betty Millard (1948); 8.) The teacher and mental health [prepared by the National Institute of Mental Health] (1955); 9.)The safety zone:|ba frank talk with women concerning their personal problems (1940), 10.)Teen-agers and parties, Ernest F. Miller (1960), 11.) Tips for teeners by Antoinette Donnelly (c.1950); 12.) Think straight before you date, D.F. Miller. (1959); and 13) Teen-agers and dope, Howard Morin, C.SS.R. (1957)

This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains pamphlets related to women's health, infancy, and childhood.

Addition 19 of MSS 16758,The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains one pamphlet: "Tennessee Industrial School for the Benefit of Orphan, Helpless and Wayward Children, Nashville, Tenn."

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").

This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains pamphlets and booklets on pre and post-natal advice for expectant mothers in America. They include: 1. Information for expectant mothers, by Frank LeCocq Jr., and Albert Bostrom, Jr. (c.1959); 2. Instructions for expectant mothers (c.1959); 3. While I am waiting, (1960); 4. Mrs Winslows soothing syrup: for children teething, (c.1888); 5. Baby is king,(1890); Baby feeding made easier, (1956) accompanied by two pieces of ephemera "It's the nipple that makes the nurser, the Davol No.155 Nipple..." and "Terminal sterilization of baby's formula; 6. Pre-natal care: what expectant mothers should know, compiled by Obstetrical Department of The Western Montana Clinic (c.1955); 7. Your baby's formula (1953, 1955); 8.How food helps mother and baby, for parents-to-be (1954); 9. Modern methods of preparing baby's formula: practical suggestions by doctors, nurses, hospitals and mothers, (1954); 10. More nearly perfect: when baby needs milk from a bottle (1934); and 11. Prenatal care (1949).

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.

This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains seven signs used to warn the public about the spread of contagious diseases and institute quarantine for diseases like smallpox, measles, polio, and diphtheria.

This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains pamphlets on public health topics including syphilis and sex education. These include: 1. Management of syphilis in general practice, Joseph Earle Moore, in collaboration with: Harold N. Cole [and others], 1938; 2. Genitoinfectious disease control in Massachusetts, prepared by The Massachusetts Department of Public Health co-operating with the United States Public Health Service, 1940; 3. The diagnosis of syphilis by the general practitioner by Joseph Earle Moore, M.D., 1938; 4. Syphilis in mother and child,by Harold N. Cole and Philip C. Jeans, in collaboration with Joseph Earle Moore ... [et al.], 1940; 5.Your baby and the blood test law, Ernest B. Howard, M.D., c.1939; 6.Clinical excerpts, 1942; 7. Sex education for the preschool child by Harold E. Jones and Katherine Read, 1941; 8. Sex education for the ten year old /|cby M. Marjorie Bolles, 1941; 9. Sex education for the adolescent. by George W. Corner and Carney Landis, 1941; and 10. Sex education for the woman at menopause by Carl G. Hartman, 1941.