Small worlds : children & adolescents in America, 1850-1950 / edited by Elliott West & Paula Petrik.

Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [1992], ©1992.

xii, 403 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Children and commercial culture : moving pictures in the early twentieth century / David Nasaw -- Children on the plains frontier / Elliott West -- Immigrant children at school, 1880-1940 : a child's eye view / Selma Berrol -- "Star struck" : acculturation, adolescence, and Mexican American women, 1920-1950 / Vicki L. Ruiz -- Made, bought, and stolen : toys and the culture of childhood / Bernard Mergen -- Sugar and spite : the politics of doll play in nineteenth-century America / Miriam Formanek-Brunell -- The youngest fourth estate : the novelty toy printing press and adolescence, 1870-1886 / Paula Petrik -- The homefront children's popular culture : radio, movies, comics : adventure, patriotism, and sex-typing / William M. Tuttle, Jr. -- Seen but not heard : children in American photographs / N. Ray Hiner -- Children as chattel / Lester Alston

Golden girls : female socialization among the middle class of Los Angeles, 1880-1910 / Victoria Bissell Brown -- "Ties that bind and bonds that break" : children's attitudes toward fathers, 1900-1930 / Robert L. Griswold -- "The only thing I wanted was freedom" : wayward girls in New York, 1900-1930 / Ruth M. Alexander -- Bitter nostalgia : recollections of childhood on the midwestern frontier / Liahna Babener.

Includes bibliographic references (p. 321-382) and index