Discover Eliot-Pearson History in the Tufts Digital Library
The Tufts Digital Library contains a treasure trove of fascinating archived images, newsletters and articles that document Tufts' history and connection to its communities. The images in their Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development Collection offer a fascinating glimpse of the "early days" and how the department grew to be what it is today. Below is a sampling of some of the items stored within the collection:
Nursery Experts at School, ca. 1948
Description:
8x10; text on back (as written with typos): "To learn improved ways of working with young children, these Greater Boston teachers are taking the summer program at the Nursery Training School in Boston. Dr. Abigail A. Eliot, extreme right, directory and Miss Harriert Nash, right, kneeling, consultant on early childhood education, Connection Education Department, are among the faculty; further names of all pictured on photo ... "
Children and the War, ca. 1945
Photo credit: Merrill, Richard
Mrs. Helen P. Wiley testing pupil for intelligence and achievement, ca. 1942
Photo credit: Keller, Robert J.
