CONTENTS
SECTION I. CHILD GAMES AND PLAY
Cultures of Boys’ Play in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New England: The Case of James Edward Wright
Rebecca R. NoelSickness and Death in Doll Play, 1850–1897
Sarah Anne Carter
SECTION II. EDUCATION, COMING OF AGE
The Education of Joseph Prince: Reading Adolescent Culture in Eighteenth-Century New England
Douglas L. WiniarskiOne Voice: The Work and Words of Litchfield Female Academy Student Charlotte Hopper Newcomb, 1809–1810
Judith Livingston Loto“Our children are our best works”: Mary Ware Allen’s Transcendental Education
Lesley Ginsberg
SECTION III. CHILDREN IN WAR, ORPHANS
Childhood and the Expansion of the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
Geoffrey PlankGendered Expectations: Orphans and Apprenticeship in Antebellum New England
Susan L. Porter
SECTION IV. CHILDREN IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ILLUSTRATIONS AND PICTURE BOOKS
Representations of Children in the Lithographs of the Kellogg Brothers of Hartford, Connecticut, 1830–1870
Nancy FinlayThe Child’s Picture Gallery: Picture Books from Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts
Laura Wasowicz
SECTION V. CHILD TRADES AND OCCUPATIONS
“Heralds of a Noisy World”: Carrier Boys, Post-Riders, and the Print Revolution in Early America
Vincent DiGirolamoJuvenile Singing Schools and Floral Concerts: Thomas P. Moses’s Nineteenth-Century Children’s Choirs in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Richard M. CandeeChild Performers and Prodigies in New England, 1795–1830
Peter Benes
NOTES AND COMMENTS
Du Simitièrfe’s Sketches of Pope Day in Boston, 1767
J.L. BellAutobiographical Fragment: Isaiah Thomas Remembers Pope Day in Boston
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
Acknowledgments
Conference Program, 15 and 16 June 2002
Abstracts of Conference Papers Not Appearing in This Volume
Photograph and Illustration Credits
Notes on Contributors