[ Healthy Habits Posters ].

New York: National Child Welfare Association, 1923 First edition. The National Child Welfare Association published the present posters during the height of the Progressive Movement in America. They illustrate the importance of health eating for children, based on recent innovations in nutrition science, and would have been used as teaching tools . Printed card stock richly illustrated in color. . Three posters, 11 in. by 16 in. . Includes posters one, two, and five of a larger set, though we were unable to determine how many posters were originally included in the series. With lovely half-page color illustrations by Fanny L. Warren and verse by Mary (truncated) S. Haviland. Some light creasing at corners and small holes from removed tacks. A very good, bright example of these rare posters. The Progressive Movement focused on federal welfare programs and was responsible for mother's pension laws, forerunners of the Social Security Act; and the founding of the National Child Labor Committee. The Children's Bureau, a federal agency that focuses exclusively on children's welfare, was also a result of the movement; its first chief, Julia Lathrop (1858 – 1932), was the first woman selected by a President to head a federal agency (Children's Bureau website). (Inventory #: 16850)