Tag Archives: Children

1910: Suffragette Madonnas

Posted on August 20, 2017 by corvusfugit

     The message of these anti-suffrage postcards is that if women have the right to vote, society will be turned upsidedown and men will become feminized, forced to do the women’s work of taking care of babies—how horrible! Although these … Continue reading →

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1862: Billedbog

Posted on August 12, 2017 by corvusfugit

Pages from a scrapbook billedbog (Danish: “picture book”) made by Hans Christian Andersen and his friend Adolph L. Drewsen for eight-year-old Jonas Drewsen. Andersen and Drewsen both contributed to the collages and wrote stories and poems around the pictures and in … Continue reading →

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1903: The Hierophant was Petrifying

Posted on August 8, 2017 by corvusfugit

Walt MacDougall: Illustration for “MacDougall’s Stories for Good Children,” February 22, 1903 (source)

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1921: The Roosters and the Fox

Posted on August 8, 2017 by corvusfugit

Chaim Nachman Bialik: The Roosters and the Fox; Omanut Press, ca. 1921 (source)

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1958: Don’t Cross Our Mom’s Picket Line

Posted on August 8, 2017 by corvusfugit

International Ladies Garment Workers Union picket line at Michele Frocks, Scranton PA, 1958 (source)

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1880: The House

Posted on August 7, 2017 by corvusfugit

Illustration from The Children’s Object Book (F. Warne & Co., 1880’s) (source)

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1976: Kids and Comics

Posted on August 5, 2017 by corvusfugit

“12-year-old Freddie Lewis, left, and Marshall Beck, both of San Diego’s Normal Heights neighborhood, set aside superhero comics to check out a copy of ‘Howard the Duck’ in 1976. (Dennis Huls / San Diego Historical Society)” (source)

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2013: A Child’s Map

Posted on August 5, 2017 by corvusfugit

Sweden was the first country to outlaw corporal punishment of children—in 1979. As of 2013, when this map was produced by Save the Children, 52 countries had done so.

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1703: Forseeing Things to Come

Posted on August 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

In 1703, the Scottish writer Martin Martin published A description of the Western Islands of Scotland. : Containing a full account of their situation, extent, soils, product, harbours, bays, tides, anchoring places, and fisheries. The ancient and modern government, religion … Continue reading →

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2012: Magic Uncle

Posted on July 28, 2017 by corvusfugit

Stephen Mackey: Magic Uncle (c. 2012) (source)

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