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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: Dirt in Loose Milk Shops
Description: This postcard produced by the New York Milk Committe's Committee for the Reduction of Infant Mortality reprints a July 26, 1911 NY Evening Post article entitled, "Dirt in Loose-Milk Shops." The article recounts the findings of the Committee's investigations, in coordination with the New York City Department of Health, into the bacterial contamination of milk sold in bulk. On the postcard verso a photo of sickly baby fed on contaminated milk is contrasted with the photo of a healthy baby under the question,"Is It Worth the Difference?"
Subjects (LC): Milk, Food adulteration and inspection, Infants, Milk hygiene, Food contamination, Food spoilage
ID: mk1e013
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: How Many Babies Did Die? (2)
Description: A double-sided postcard commending the efforts of Montclair, New Jersey to reduce the number of infants succumbing to diarrheal disease during the hot spell of July 1911. What the mortality rate could have been in other cities, had they followed Montclair's example, is explored. On the back, parents are urged to dress their children for comfort, not looks, during hot summer months.
Subjects (LC): Child rearing, Infants' clothing, Children's clothing, Infants, Mortality, Nutrition, Statistics, Milk, Milk, Milk hygiene
ID: mk1e014m002
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: 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: The Baby and the Budget
Description: Headlines from the New York Evening Post, the New York Tribune, and the NY Times are reproduced on this 1911 postcard created by the New York Milk Committee. They read: "The Baby and the Budget," "Why More Doctors, Nurses, and Inspectors Are Needed," and "The 'Cops' Spread the News." That "News" is the promotion of the work of milk stations in preventing infant deaths and advocacy for the full budgetary allocation by the NYC Department of Health towards the summer time reduction of infant mortality. A portrait of a healthy baby and a list of "Babies' Rights,"almost all of which deal with milk, are found on the postcard verso.
Subjects (LC): Milk, Milk hygiene, Infants, Nutrition, Public welfare, Administrative agencies
ID: mk1e012
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
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: Information Card: Babies' Pure Milk and Health Stations
Description: An address list of milk stations, education centers and well-baby clinics run by the New York Milk Committee, organized by borough and district. These include Nathan Straus Pasteurized Milk Laboratories, the New York Diet Kitchen Association, and the Department of Health in Manhattan; the Children's Aid Society and Department of Health in Brooklyn; and the New York Diet Kitchen Association in the Bronx. Information describing the kind of milk (certified, pasteurized, sterilized etc.) available at each facility is also included.
Subjects (LC): Infants, Milk, Health facilities
ID: mk1e034
Geographic Subject: New York. New York City.
Collection: New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection

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