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Title: Milk: What Milk to Buy and How to Care for it in the Home
Description: Photographs of healthy, well-nourished infants and young children adorn this educational circular produced by the New York Milk Commitee. Aimed at parents and caretakers, the circular contains guidelines for the purchase, storage, and preparation of milk as part of a child's healthy diet.
Subjects (LC): Milk, Infants, Children, Nutrition, Bottle feeding
ID: mk1e042
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: Milk: Its Value to the Home, Its Care in the Home
Description: An eight-page pamphlet (a single sheet folded into eight pages) produced by the New York Milk Committee, emphasizing milk's importance as a "family food." Images of healthy children, cows in verdant fields, and milk surrounded by produce reinforce the central message of milk's vital role in maintaining and promoting children's health. Nutritional comparisons between milk and other foods are provided, as are instructions for the proper selection, storage, and use of milk. Members of the Milk Committee's Standing Committee on Milk Consumers are listed at the top of the last page.
Subjects (LC): Milk, Infants, Nutrition, Education, Child rearing
ID: mk1e043
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: Milk and Human Kindness
Description: This New York Milk Committee leaflet depicts a baby drinking milk from a bottle and advises parents to "keep baby well by keeping the milk clean, covered, and cold." The leaflet encourages the substitution of foods necessary for the war effort with dairy products. The back page includes portraits of 18 healthy babies and reminds parents that "The Nation That Has The Babies Has The Future...Save Them and Nourish Them Well." The front image was provided by the New York Evening Journal.
Subjects (LC): Milk, Infants, War--Economic aspects
ID: mk1e044m001
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: Seeing New York
Description: Addressed to students attending summer school at Columbia University and NYU, this folded circular produced by the New York Milk Committee asks students to pay attention to a novel New York attraction -- the successful reduction of summertime infant mortality. From July 1-29, 1911 ,the Committee's efforts were bolstered by educational outreach, the cleanliness of milkmen, nurses, applied hygene, and the activities of the "Little Mother's League." Statistical data and a range of photographs accompany an assesment of the goals and accomplishments of the Committee's infant mortality reduction program. Information pertaining to the location of educational seminars and the methodology employed when recording facts is also provided. Labeled "Efficient Citizenship No. 460" on the final page.
Subjects (LC): Milk, Mothers, Infants, Health, Summer, Poetry, Health, Hygiene, Hygiene, Girls
ID: mk1e007
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: Out of Town
Description: Within this folded circular produced by the New York Milk Committee is a sentimental poem contrasting the summer holidays of wealthy city dwellers with the fate of working-class infants struck down by disease. Opposing phtographs of healthy children, poor children, country life, and city life emphasize the poem's theme. The back side of the circular lists milk stations where city parents can find care and relief for their children.
Subjects (LC): Milk, Infants, Mothers, Summer, Death, Poetry, Funeral processions, Mortality, Mortality
ID: mk1e001
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: Milk: Its Value to the Home, Its Care in the Home
Description: An eight-page pamphlet produced by the New York Milk Committee, emphasizing milk's importance as a "family food." Images of healthy children, cows in verdant fields, and milk surrounded by produce reinforce the central message of milk's vital role in maintaining and promoting children's health. Nutritional comparisons between milk and other foods are provided, as are instructions for the proper selection, storage, and use of milk. Members of the Milk Committee's Standing Committee on Milk Consumers are listed at the bottom of the last page.
Subjects (LC): Milk, Nutrition, Education, Child rearing
ID: mk1e041
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: Prof. Fair's Hair Care [from verso]
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising Prof. Fair's hair tonic, a remedy for greying and thinning hair.
Subjects (LC): Girls, Milk, Pails
Manufacturer: Prof. Fair (Providence (R.I.))
Language: English
ID: WH264
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Record of Accomplishments and Prospectus
Description: This leaflet documents the Record of Acomplishments and Prospectus of the New York Milk Committee from 1906 to 1910. Areas highlighted include research, education, the promotion of clean milk, and the initiation of legislation designed to raise the standards and quality of the milk supply. A program for fututre action in 1911 is outlined in reference to these four facets of the Committee's activities. The names of board and committee members are included on the back.
Subjects (LC): Milk, Milk depots, Milk hygiene, Infants, Mortality, Education, Legislation, Publicity, Publicity, Mothers, Tuberculosis, Dairy farming, Economic policy, Physicians
ID: mk1e002
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: An Accomplishment (1911) and an Expectation (1912)
Description: This single folded sheet leaflet provides a summary of the New York Milk Committee's 1911 accomplishments and a prescription for future action in 1912. Among the triumphs touted are a reduction in infant mortality, the completion of a study of national milk standards, and the apportionment of a grant for the creation of 55 new Municipal Milk Stations. On the back, a reproduced still image from "Care of the Baby," a motion picture filmed for the New York Milk Committee by Thomas A. Edison, depicts mothers, infants, and nurses at a milk station.
Subjects (LC): Milk, Infants, Mortality, Milk depots, Milk hygiene, Food adulteration and inspection, Food contamination, Food spoilage, Food spoilage, Motion pictures
ID: mk1e002
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: A Letter to Expectant Mothers
Description: Illustrated with the image of a mother embracing her infant beside a changing table, this New York Milk Committee circular aims at promoting prenatal care. Inside the circular a letter to the expectant mother advises on the health of both mother and unborn child and provides a list of NYC hospitals and clinics providing maternity care. On the back, a list of pure milk and health clinics in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx is provided.
Subjects (LC): Milk, Infants, Pregnancy, Health, Maternal and infant welfare, Mothers, Prenatal care
ID: mk1e035
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: A Letter to Expectant Mothers [Yiddish]
Description: A Yiddish language circular of the New York Milk Committee, illustrated with the image of a mother embracing her infant beside a changing table and aimed at promoting prenatal care. Inside the circular a letter to the expectant mother advises on the health of both mother and unborn child and provides a list of NYC hospitals and clinics providing maternity care. On the back, a list of pure milk and health clinics in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx is provided.
Subjects (LC): Milk, Infants, Pregnancy, Health, Maternal and infant welfare, Mothers, Prenatal care
ID: mk1e036m001
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: Accomplishments: January-July, 1912
Description: A four page brochure of New York Milk Committee progress reports detailing accomplishments achieved in the first six months of 1912. The brochure's cover is adorned with a photo montage of healthy infants, while the back extol's the Committee's work during its first year of activity.
Subjects (LC): Progress, Milk, Standardization, Education, Infants
ID: nk1e046
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: Babies' Pure Milk Station
Description: Form 10,000 5-11, 8-11, a blank form printed in English for recording individualized milk formulas for infants receiving aid from the New York Milk Committee's Babies' Pure Milk Stations. Ingredients to be used include milk top; whole milk; lime water; milk sugar; boiled water; barley water; and oatmeal water. Space for the prescription of formula and for the establishment of a feeding schedule is also provided.
Subjects (LC): Milk, Infants, Bottle feeding
ID: mk1e017
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: Babies' Pure Milk Station (Yiddish)
Description: A blank form printed in Yiddish for recording individualized milk formulas for infants receiving aid from the New York Milk Committee's Babies' Pure Milk Stations. Ingredients to be used include milk top; whole milk; lime water; milk sugar; boiled water; barley water; and oatmeal water. Space for the prescription of formula and for the establishment of a feeding schedule is also provided.
Subjects (LC): Milk, Food, Infants
ID: mk1e019
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: Stazione di latte pei bambini
Description: A blank form printed in Italian for recording individualized milk formulas for infants receiving aid from the New York Milk Committee's Babies' Pure Milk Stations. Ingredients to be used include milk top; whole milk; lime water; milk sugar; boiled water; barley water; and oatmeal water. Space for the prescription of formula and for the establishment of a feeding schedule is also provided.
Subjects (LC): Milk, Infants, Bottle feeding
ID: mk1e018
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: Request for Relief
Description: New York Milk Committee form RR-5-13-11-2000, a blank card for recording information about the economic and social status of an individual family seeking milk and welfare assistance from the Committee. Aditional space is provided for the reporting nurse to record notes or observations.
Subjects (LC): Milk, Food relief
ID: mk1e021
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: Eligible Baby
Description: New York Milk Committee form L-9-11-11-5000, a blank card for recording details about a single infant and family to whom milk assistance was delivered. Of primary concern is the infant's milk and food consumption, source of the milk provided, and periodic updates on the infant's status.
Subjects (LC): Milk, Infants, Nutrition
ID: mk1e022
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: Institutional Case
Description: New York Milk Committee form C. 6-1-11-2000, a blank form for recording details of an institutional case in which an infant is reciveiving milk assistance at a health care facility or through a foster home.
Subjects (LC): Milk, Infants, Food relief
ID: mk1e023
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: Look for the Blue Fronts: Babies' Pure Milk Stations [Yiddish]
Description: This New York Milk Comittee circular, written in Yiddish, contrasts the photo of an emaciated baby with the photo of a healthy baby to encourage caregivers to provide their infants with "good milk" and "good care." Free advice from nurses and doctors is also advertised.
Subjects (LC): Infants, Milk, Health, Maternal and infant welfare
ID: mk1e040
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: Look for the Blue Fronts: Babies' Pure Milk Stations
Description: This New York Milk Comittee circular contrasts the photo of an emaciated baby with the photo of a healthy baby to encourage caregivers to provide their infants with "good milk" and "good care." Free advice from nurses and doctors is also advertised. The stamp of the New York Milk commitee is present at the top of the card.
Subjects (LC): Infants, Milk, Health, Maternal and infant welfare
ID: mk1e037
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

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