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title: How to Care for Your Child While You Are at Work
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/how-to-care-for-your-child-newark-1941/
description: Text-only notice from a Newark school board announcing five child-care centers for children of employed mothers, with meals.
section: Collection
---

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# How to Care for Your Child While You Are at Work

Text-only notice from a Newark school board announcing five child-care centers for children of employed mothers, with meals, a nurse and a physician listed under the heading The Program. Red and blue stars frame the type. The technique is faint: the sheet lists the services offered and the admission rules, and nothing else.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
HOW TO CARE FOR
YOUR CHILD
WHILE YOU ARE AT WORK
The Board of Education of Newark, N. J., announces the opening of Child-Care Centers at Abington Avenue, Eighteenth Avenue, Lafayette Street, Miller Street, and Webster Street Schools.
THE PROGRAM
Your child will be given a good breakfast and a hot dinner at noon. Milk with crackers and fruit juices will be served during the day. Teachers, a school nurse, the school physician, and supervised cooks will be in each school Center. Every facility will be provided for complete day-care of children between the ages of 4 and 14.
QUALIFICATIONS FOR ADMISSION
1.---Mothers must be employed or about to be employed.
2.---Children must be at least 4 years of age.
3.---Mothers should register their children at the Child-Care Center nearest their home.
HOURS FOR CHILD-CARE CENTERS
7:00 a. m. --- 5:00 p. m.
LOCATION OF CHILD-CARE CENTERS
ABINGTON AVENUE SCHOOL - - - - Abington Avenue and North 6th Street
EIGHTEENTH AVENUE SCHOOL - - - Eighteenth Avenue and Livingston Street
LAFAYETTE STREET SCHOOL - - - - - Lafayette and Congress Streets
MILLER STREET SCHOOL - - - - Miller Street and Frelinghuysen Avenue
WEBSTER STREET SCHOOL - - - - - - Webster and Crane Streets
[imprint:] A product of The Indian Head Press, Weequahic High School, Newark, N. J.
```

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