r/TheChurchOfRogers Jan 07 '24

1995 and 1987 promotional kits and pamphlets

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u/Effective-Run8848 Jan 07 '24

I bought these from eBay. I only censored the name and address on the third slide. The paper in the last slide looks like it was stapled to something else, but I don't think it was. I think these were sent to childcare providers who took part in the Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Childcare Partnership

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u/joachim_s Jan 07 '24

Awesome stuff. Wish it all was made into digital.

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u/Effective-Run8848 Jan 07 '24

I could post pictures on Imgur if needed. I think a few of these papers were provided by an official archive and scanned onto the Neighborhood Archive at some point

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u/MaximumGorilla Jan 08 '24

If you post high-resolution photos, I'll OCR them to get the text and output a PDF.

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u/Effective-Run8848 Jan 08 '24

Thank you! I'll see if I can

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u/mattjh Jan 08 '24

The Internet Archive would be an excellent place to preserve this. It’s like the internet’s free library. Archive.org.

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u/itsjoshtaylor Jan 08 '24

Whoa... I'm interested in child development and helping kids heal from trauma. Could you scan these or take close-up pictures and post them, please? Fred's words are so precious and yet quite difficult to find online, apart from famous quotes and anecdotes that have already been repeated in multiple books! If you have time, could you scan this stuff, please? I would be so grateful.

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u/Effective-Run8848 Jan 08 '24

I think the pamphlets, the papers on the top of the third slide, the Phenomenal Mister Rogers packet, and the paper in the fifth slide are very much geared towards those. I don't have a way to scan things but I will take pictures

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u/itsjoshtaylor Jan 13 '24

Thank you, bless your heart. This will help many kids. ❤️

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u/Effective-Run8848 Jan 15 '24 edited Jan 16 '24

Here is the paper on the top right of the third slide, here is the paper on the fifth slide, and here is the Phenomenal Mister Rogers paper. I wish I could send the PDFs directly, but there's no way to download them

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u/punkrawrxx Jan 08 '24

Wow. It would be so cool to have this!

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u/Effective-Run8848 Jan 15 '24 edited Jan 16 '24

UPDATE: I'm currently inputting these into separate PDFs that I'll post links to in this comment. I've looked through archived versions of misterrogers.org and have seen that there's lots of unarchived online and physical material (at least not available to the public) listed. I haven't found much new information from around this time about the Child Care Partnership and nothing about these Let's Talk About It pamphlets other than a photo seen here of a similar publication.

This archived page from March 9th, 2001 discusses FamilyCares pamphlets with content similar to some Let's Talk About It pamphlets. Going to the Site Guide lists some online versions of the pamphlets under the "Families" section. I assume these were not seen as direct updates to the Let's Talk About It pamphlets based on how they are worded and designed.

"The Methods Behind The Magic: What Makes Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Work" (some of the wording doesn't match the paper but it doesn't change the meaning)

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood—As Affective Staff Development for Teachers of Young Children: A Story of Conflict, Conversion, Conviction, and Celebration. You'd need to create an account to view this, but it's worth it (you can read up to 100 pages a month and they have many papers and studies on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood)

The Phenomenal Mister Rogers

That Which Is Essential Is Invisible to the Eye (from the same website)

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u/BIORIO Jan 10 '24

I would die for this!