Items

Title: Registered Baby
Description: New York Milk Committee form M-6-28-11-5000, a blank printed card for recording the results of infant/family attendance at medical consultations and of home visits made by Committe nurses. The back side of the card is a continuation of the form found on the front.
Subjects (LC): Infants, Health, Maternal and infant welfare
ID: mk1e024
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: Case History Card: Conditions Previous to Admittance
Description: New York Milk Committee form H-8-29-11-5000, a blank card for recording data about an infant's health and health history, housing situation, and nationality. Additionally, an area for the recording of economic information about the infant's parents is also provided.
Subjects (LC): Infants, Families, Maternal and infant welfare, Health
ID: mk1e027
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: Diet for Child from 12th to 18th Month
Description: New York Milk Committee information card describing the recommended diet for a child aged 12 to 18 months. The card provides alternative menus for the infant's first meal of the day, mid-morning snack, noon, afternoon, and evening meals, most of which call for, in part, the consumption of milk. Total milk intake over a twenty-four hour period is recommended to be between 1 and 1.25 quarts.
Subjects (LC): Infants, Nutrition, Food, Menus
ID: mk1e030
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: Diet for Child from 18th to 24th Month
Description: New York Milk Committee information card describing the recommended diet for a child aged 18 to 24 months. The card provides alternative menus for the infant's breakfast, mid-morning snack, dinner, and supper, most of which call for, in part, the consumption of milk. Total milk intake over a twenty-four hour period is recommended to be 1.5 quarts.
Subjects (LC): Infants, Nutrition, Food, Menus
ID: mk1e031
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: Saving Through Education: Will You Reprint This?
Description: A double-sided postcard promoting healty diets for inants and children aged 18 months to three years, including sample breakfast, lunch, and dinner menus. The abilities of science and common sense to reduce infant mortality are also touted. On the back, photos depicting a plump, healthy baby and a guant, distressed baby are contrasted. "A Story" accompanies the images, as does the New York Milk Committee's address, where care givers can find more information to "make mother knowing."
Subjects (LC): Infants, Nutrition, Food, Menus, Poetry
ID: mk1e015
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: The House with the Blue Front: Babies' Pure Milk Stations
Description: A four-sided circular containing the reprinted text of the article, "The House With the Blue Front," published by the New York Times on Sunday, May 14, 1911. The article highlights and justifies the educational outreach program instituted by the New York Milk Committee as a facet of their fight against infant mortality. This program includes maternal education programs conducted both at milk stations and in the home by visiting nurses. Photographs illustrating these "consultation classes" accompany the text.
Subjects (LC): Milk depots, Infants, Mothers, Education
ID: mk1e016
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: Special Bulletin
Description: A report containing errata to previously published reports of the New York Milk Committee. Included are tables of corrected infant mortality data for the cities of Indianapolis, Passaic, and Perth Amboy between 1906 and 1916. On the back, quotes from the Health Officer of each city add further context to the errors.
Subjects (LC): Infants, Mortality, Statistics, Cities and towns
ID: mk1e045
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: A 6% Dividend Paid in 1912
Description: A single sheet folded leaflet stating that "8,643 children under 5 years of age" were saved in 1912 thanks to a 6 percent reduction in the infant mortality rate from 1911. This "6% dividend" was paid as a result of the increased availablity of clean milk provided by the New York Milk Committee. The inside provides a bar graph displaying the continously falling infant mortality rate from 1901 to 1905, and asks the reader to consider what the record for 1913 will be if this trend can be continued.
Subjects (LC): Infants, Mortality, Milk hygiene, Nutrition, Statistics
ID: mk1e003
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: Expectant Mother
Description: Blank form for use by the Committee for the Reduction of Infant Mortality, a division of the New York Milk Committee, on which the personal and physical details of an expectant mother -- work situation, information about previous pregnancies, miscarriages, and infant feeding methods -- is recorded.
Subjects (LC): Infants, Pregnancy, Pregnant women, Maternal and infant welfare, Health, Childbirth, Breastfeeding, Bottle feeding, Bottle feeding
ID: mk1e025
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

Title: Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills
Description: Trade card advertising Morse's Indian Root Pills featuring a toddler crawling on the floor towards a collie. Behind the two is a cat peeking through a door at them from another room. The back has text explaining the benefits of Morse's Indian Root Pills.
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Babies, Cats, Dogs, Domestic Space, Infants
ID: WH308
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Summer At The Seaside [from verso]
Description: Trade card advertising Jayne's Carminative Balsam and Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge featuring a young woman leaning over a baby in a basket on a seashore. She is wearing a loose, white shirt and a long, red skirt. The baby is covered by a red-and-white patterned blanket. There is a pillow and a yellow blanket in the basket as well as a sprig of a plant with berries. Behind them is a rough sea and a rocky shoreline. The back lists the ailments the Balsam and Vermifuge can cure.
Conditions Cured (LC): Diarrhea, Dysentery, Gastroenteritis, Helminths, Indigestion
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Babies, Baskets, Beaches, Berries, Blankets, Cliffs, Clothing And Dress, Costume, Cradles, Grasses, Infants, Leaves, Nature, Necklaces, Ocean, Pillows, Rocks, Textile Fabrics, Water, Water Waves
ID: WH282
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Summer At The Seaside [from verso]
Description: Trade card advertising Jayne's Carminative Balsam and Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge featuring a young woman leaning over a baby in a basket on a seashore. She is wearing a loose, white shirt and a long, red skirt. The baby is covered by a red-and-white patterned blanket. There is a pillow and a yellow blanket in the basket as well as a sprig of a plant with berries. Behind them is a rough sea and a rocky shoreline. The back lists the ailments the Balsam and Vermifuge can cure.
Conditions Cured (LC): Diarrhea, Dysentery, Gastroenteritis, Helminths, Indigestion
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Babies, Baskets, Beaches, Berries, Blankets, Cliffs, Clothing And Dress, Costume, Cradles, Grasses, Infants, Leaves, Nature, Necklaces, Ocean, Pillows, Rocks, Textile Fabrics, Water, Water Waves
ID: WH283
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

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