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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.

A sculpture of a mother breastfeeding her baby, advertising maternal breastfeeding in France. Process print, 194-.

An orange tree and a bottle of orange juice, advertising concentrated orange juice as beneficial to children. Colour lithograph by Eileen Evans.

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

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

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.

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 (?).

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Child welfare

Images from the collections

Images about Child welfare

Works from the collections

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

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

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

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.

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 (?).

Child welfare

Images from the collections

Images about Child welfare

Works from the collections

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

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

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

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.

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 (?).

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