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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: 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: 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: 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

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