Child Welfare
Child Welfare, Child Labor, NCLC , ABAA-RBMS-2023
Multiple Locations: National Child Labor Committee, 1936-1953. Child Welfare, Child Labor, NCLC The collection or archive is comprised of approximately 980 unique images or narratives including 480 photographic prints in envelopes, many with negatives included and 330 negatives, plus an addition 27 larger format photographic prints and 140 descriptive caption.....
Price: $150,000.00
music, musical instruments, camp, non profit, child welfare, singing, chorus
Oakland, ME: New England Music Camp, [1940]. A brochure for New England Music Camp located in Oakland, ME. Started in 1937 as a nonprofit by Dr. Paul E Wiggin and his wife Nina Wiggin, the camp's goal was to cultivate and refine the musical skills of the youth as well.....
Price: $110.00
Die-cut, Christmas, charitable organizations, chromolithography, children, child welfare
Detroit, Michigan: National Child Welfare League, 1913. A festive Christmas-themed contribution envelope for the National Child Welfare League, which advocated for child welfare and was based in Detroit, Michigan. The contribution envelope, which measures 1.75" by 3", is sandwiched between two pieces of card which have been die-cut to resemble.....
Price: $50.00
Froebel Kindergarten, History of New York, Social Work, Public Health and Hygiene
New York, New York: Bloomingdale Neighborhood Association, 1908. Fourth Annual Report of the Bloomingdale Neighborhood Association, featuring a photograph on the upper wrapper of over a dozen schoolchildren and their social workers in front of the Bloomingdale Guild. The organization's purpose was "To raise higher educational and social ideals"; "To.....
Price: $150.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Infant Care,Parenting Education,Child Growth and Psychology,Public Health
United States and Canada: 1951-1965. A collection of twelve (12) items relating to infant care and parenting education, published in the United States and Canada between 1951 and c.1965. Published by both public health departments and infant food manufacturers to market their products, these guides aim to educate parents in.....
Price: $1,200.00
Hard of Hearing and Deafness,Speech Pathology and Therapy,Social Work,Child Development
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: North Carolina Memorial Hospital, 1957. Program of events printed for the third annual Conference on Handicapped Children, organized around the theme of "Problems of Speech and Hearing". Note that children who are hard of hearing/deaf or have speech/communication disorders are categorized here in 1957 under the.....
Price: $125.00
Women and Charitable Causes, History of New York, Prostitution and Fallen Women
New York, New York: The Institution, 1862. Vol. VI, No. 2 of the Monthly Record of the Five Points House of Industry, a society formed to counteract rising crime and poverty rates in New York in 1851. The recipients of the society's charity were often fallen women and prostitutes who.....
Price: $150.00
charity, child welfare, advertising, thanksgiving, Pennsylvania Society to Protect Children from Cruelty, SPCC, poverty, social class
Philadelphia, PA: Pennsylvania Society to Protect Children from Cruelty, 1904. The Pennsylvania Society to Protect Children from Cruelty (SPCC) was founded in 1877 with the aim was to effect improvement in children's lives, specifically those "who are cruelly treated, or neglected physically, mentally, or morally." They did this through several.....
Price: $110.00
Mental Health in the Classroom
Washington, D.C. U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1955. A brief overview of the teacher's role in safeguarding students' mental health, prepared by the National Institute of Mental Health for the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Features an illustration of a group of students and their teacher.....
Price: $225.00
Educating America's Youth,Keeping Kids in School
New York, New York: Looseleaf Education, Inc., 1926. A fascinating look into social values surrounding education in 1926, from a booklet encouraging young people to pursue education and graduate from high school: "Most of the really great men of America have found themselves, as the saying is, in their high.....
Price: $250.00
Cigarette Smoking,Tobacco,Nicotine,Addiction,Public Health,Sociology
New York, New York: 1932. A passionate attack on cigarette smoking, highlighting its addictive nature and detrimental health effects, published in 1932: "Not one person in a thousand knows anything about the evils of this habit ... Perhaps no campaign has been more insidious" (p.1). Focuses on corporate greed, birth.....
Price: $175.00
Big Brothers and Sisters, History of New York, Juvenile Court, Custody Disputes and Conservation, YMCA, YWCA
New York, New York: c.1911. Printed program announcing lectures given by journalist and child welfare advocate Ernest Kent Coulter (1871-1952). The program promotes Coulter as the "Clerk of the World's Largest Children's Court" whose lectures "abound in human interest--incident, pathos and humor clinching sober appeal". It also notes the fact.....
Price: $150.00
dental health, toothland puppet show, medicine, child welfare
Chicago, IL: Good Teeth Council for Children, INC, 1940. 31 pp. booklet aimed at encouraging primary grade age children to take care of their teeth. The story and the character of Jimmy Chew, a sixth year molar, are based on the Toothland Puppet Show. The booklet starts with a young.....
Price: $75.00
National Child Labor Committee, Child Labor , Education
New York City: National Child Labor Committee, 1920s. A 22 3/4" x 32" printed in black and white. Illustrated by I. Dan Danziger. The illustration on the left is a crossroad for young teens - one leads to school and the other the factory. A billboard in the image reads.....
Price: $550.00
Early Education, Blind Education, Pedagogy Froebel Kindergarten, History of New York, Social Work
Boston, Massachusetts: Wright & Potter Printing Company, 1883. An important early publication in the history of education, including the oft-reproduced portrait of Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852), here engraved by Littell of New York. Aiming to align the general public with Froebel's cause, the preface ends with an entreaty: "Fellow-citizens, will you.....
Price: $175.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Child Psychology,Ability and Ableism,Addressing Special Needs in Children,Psychology,Childhood Growth and Development
Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937 [i.e.1942]. A scarce near-complete set of the revised 1937 edition of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, an intelligence test first introduced in 1905 for the purpose of measuring cognitive ability in children. It uses five weighted factors (fluid reasoning, knowledge, quantitative reasoning, visual-spatial processing and.....
Price: $500.00
Early Learning, Socialization, Child Health, Child Welfare
Kingsport, TN: Kingsport City Schools, 1953. This is a brochure prepared for parents of children in public schools in Kingsport, Tennessee. It is directed towards the parents who are sending their kids to school for the first time. The brochure is divided up into categories: Rules & Regulations, Visits &.....
Price: $75.00
Childhood, Children's Rights, Child Labor, Child Welfare
Bismark, North Dakota: North Dakota Humane Society for the Friendless, c.1930. A reprint by the North Dakota Humane Society and Society for the Friendless of a loving "Bill of Rights" for children, stating their inalienable rights: "To be born right. To be loved. To have his individuality respected. To be.....
Price: $350.00
Juvenile Crime,Juvenile Reform and Rehabilitation,Social Work
Raleigh, North Carolina: N.C. State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, 1923. A brief Q&A-style informational booklet for the general public, answering common questions about the Juvenile Court system in North Carolina c.1923. Features a nice but of design on the upper wrapper with the caption, "A Square Deal For.....
Price: $225.00