Puériculture Baby Book, circa 1930

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Scope and content:: Collection consists of a manuscript with numerous drawings in red crayon and other pasted-on pictures cut from magazines or photographs. Loose-leaf, unbound, in red wrappers with pictorial upper cover. "An unusual and attractive self-penned baby book, perhaps created by a prospective parent or possibly with a view to publication. The script is neat and legible, the drawings accomplished. Puériculture covers all the expected topics in considering the care of a baby in the first stages, from birth to first outings. Both breast feeding and bottle feeding is considered and one of the cut images is a growth chart (uncompleted)."--Antiquarian bookseller's description.
Rules or conventions:: Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Collection Guide Author:: Finding aid prepared by Kelly Besser, 2020.
Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-12-14 10:38:19 -0800 .

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Location of this collection:: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Medicine and Science

Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library

12-077 Center for Health Sciences, Box 951798

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1798, US