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Child welfare

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  • The outline of a bottle, advertising concentrated orange juice as beneficial to children. Colour lithograph after Eileen Evans.
  • A sculpture of a mother breastfeeding her baby, advertising national childhood week in France. Process print, 1947.
  • An orange tree, advertising concentrated orange juice as beneficial to children. Colour lithograph after Eileen Evans.
  • Child safety: a child's hand reaches towards a saucepan on a stove; a child stands on the curb of a road holding a teddy; the arm of a child reaches out for a syringe;a girl pours a dangerous substance into a dolls teacup; promotion for child safety by the Highland Aids Resource Centre. Colour lithograph.
  • A cross-section of a uterus illustrating how the foetus is fed internally by the mother. Engraving by W. Taylor, 1791, after F. Birnie after W. Smellie.
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Catalogue

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    Asylums for foundlings : their supporters / Octogenarian, medical officer in retirement.

    Octogenarian. | Date: 1860
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    Child Welfare Information Centre : summary of the legislative and administrative series of documents of the Child Welfare Information Centre published in 1938.

    | Date: 1939
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    A sculpture of a mother breastfeeding her baby, advertising national childhood week in France. Process print, 1947.

    | Date: [1947]] | Reference: 29314i
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    A psalm of thanksgiving : to be sung by the children of Christs-Hospital, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in Easter-week, (according to ancient custom) for their founders and benefactors. 1688.

    | Date: 1688
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    A child being led by both hands out of the dark towards sunlight; representing the work of the Union nationale pour le soutien et la protection de l'enfance. Colour lithograph after P-E. Colin, 1945 (?).

    Colin, Paul-Emile, 1867-1949. | Date: [1945?] | Reference: 675839i
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