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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Headache Cured. Dr. Mettaur's Headache Pills, a Certain Relief
- Description
- Trade card advertising Dr. Mettaur's Headache Pills featuring a baby sleeping in a basket and a dog sitting erect in a chair next to it. By the end of the basket are various dishes and a jug. There is a rag of some sort by the foot of the chair draped over these items. The back lists the ailments Dr. Mettaur's Headache Pills can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Biliary Tract—Diseases, Constipation, Headache
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Blankets, Chairs, Children, Dogs, Domestic Space, Infants, Pitchers, Sleep, Sleep Positions
- ID
- WH304
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- Old Dr. Samuel F. Stowe's Dyspepsia Cure or Compound Medicated Lozenges
- Description
- Trade card advertising Old Dr. Samuel F. Stowe's Dyspepsia Cure or Compound Medicated Lozenges featuring a young child sitting on a red pillow in a high chair. On the high chair's tray is a puppy whose foot is bleeding. The child is repairing it.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Indigestion
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Chairs, Children, Children's Clothing, Dogs, Infants, Puppies, Wound Healing, Wounds and Injuries
- ID
- WH359F
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- 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