Childcare ephemera. Box 1, General.

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Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: J. Collier & Sons' baby carriages, sewing machines, washing machines and wringers (London, 1888), 'The Hampton Twins (a story in three staggers' : poem), 6 colour Liebig cards (in Dutch) from 1957 showing babies being cared for around the world (in a cradle, wrapped up as a papoose etc.), Booth & Fox's ventilated down quilt (for babies : 1890s?), Alexandra Day ( Fête in aid of sick children's charities : Liverpool : 1920 : postcards showing nurses and soldier), National Baby Week (Plymouth : July 1917), Antiseptic Strooipoeder, the "Diamond" portable folding bassinette (Hoskins patent) cot (I.W. Caley & Co., Norwich, 1890s?), 5th National Congress of Paediatrics (Guadalajara, 1954), birth certificates (1889, 1893, 1910), surgeon's certificate (medical examination for the Birmingham Equalized District Order of Druids Friendly Society Juvenile Branch, 1920), School health examination visits following the Education Act of 1921 (Hertfordshire County Council, 1929), Infant's weight cards (National Association of Maternity and Child Welfare Centres and for the Prevention of Child Mortality, 1947), Mother Babycraft Centre (186 High Holborn, London, 1949), Childhood bill of rights (V.H. Lockwood), Boots' Eveline cot and pram nets, school health card (1915), United Nations Children's Fund (fund raising paper badge), child health record card, tonsils and adenoids, child growth, leaflets on baby care, parent support, baby products, Allenbury's baby soap, cream and powder, bullying (Warwickshire County Council, 2007), Kemsun infant soothers, Tumble Tots (physical play programme 2011), child health record form (Germany, 1949), Fissan Brand Dusting Powder (Fissan Ltd, distributors: Genatosan Ltd., Loughborough), mother and baby photograph (Kallehaus des Westens GmbH), learning and education leaflets (British Association for Early Childhood Education : 2004/5?), Little Elms daycare nurseries (Greenwich : 2014), 'Children' (NHS National Institute for Health Research : 2014).

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1 box ; 34 x 33 cm.

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