Child Welfare
pledge card, alcohol, smoking, opium, drugs, tobacco, aesthetic movement
1870s. A pledge card given as an agree to abstain from alcohol, smoking, and drugs. The deeply embossed card depicts an innocent young girl holding an overflowing bowl of liquid and a bouquet of ribbon tied wild flowers, design influenced by Aesthetic movement. Printed next to the image is: "Trusting.....
Price: $75.00
Child Welfare, Child Labor, NCLC
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
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
World War One, Disability Rights, Welfare
United States: 1917-1918. A set of five (5) printed tags promoting social welfare causes in American towards the end of World War One, including the Chicago Children's Benefit League, the Permanent Blind Relief War Fund, and Hospital Day at the Passavant Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Each tag is die-cut and.....
Price: $175.00
World Friendship, World Tolerance, Early Learning
East Northfield, MA: Lucy W. Titcomb, 1937. 38pp. Illustrated wraps. An image from a photograph of the young authoress holding a doll. Her introduction is To Dear Children (in America) that concludes with a verse "Nations are Friends". Contents includes: Why Am I Tadpole? A Flower-Magician Mr Spider Rip Van.....
Price: $200.00
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
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