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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Take Hood's Sarsaparilla to Purify Your Blood: 100 Doses $1.00
- Description
- Trade card advertising Hood's Sarsaparilla featuring five children at a show of some sort with a spotlight that shows the words "Take Hood's Sarsaparilla to Purify Your Blood 100 Doses $1.00." There is a girl in a blue dress with a white bonnet watching the spotlight while a boy climbs up the back of her chair. To her left is a boy in a dark blue shirt looking to the right. To her right is a girl in a red dress looking to the lower, left-hand corner. Finally, there is a toddler looking straight at the customer wearing a blue-and-red outfit eating a candy-cane and holding a treat. The back advertises a concert performance.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Catarrh, Headache, Indigestion, Rheumatism, Salt Rheum, Scrofula
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Baby Bonnets, Candy Canes, Children, Children's Clothing, Dress And Clothing, Snack Foods
- ID
- WH150
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards