Template:Did you know nominations/Caroline Harrison

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 18:41, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Caroline Harrison

  • ... that Caroline Harrison would mail ceramic milk sets to parents that named their children after U.S president Benjamin Harrison? Source: Scofield, Merry Ellen (2016). "Rose Cleveland, Frances Cleveland, Caroline Harrison, Mary McKee". In Sibley, Katherine A. S. (ed.). A Companion to First Ladies. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 265–282. ISBN 1-118-73218-9. p. 273

Improved to Good Article status by Thebiguglyalien (talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke (talk) at 21:41, 23 October 2022 (UTC).

  • I would like to know when this occurred, so that the reader knows whether or not to name their child Benjamin Harrison — Preceding unsigned comment added by CatherineGCC (talkcontribs)
  • Starting review (this may have gotten overlooked due to a comment being made, making it look like someone was starting review when they were actually simply commenting.) Valereee (talk) 13:22, 30 October 2022 (UTC)


General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Valereee (talk) 13:22, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

  • I have a strong preference for ALT0, but "milk set" is probably something a lot of folks aren't going to be familiar with. The likely item is something along the lines of a porcelain baby feeder like the one I've linked to,
    Japanese porcelain feeding bottle, ring shaped Wellcome L0035657
    with a matching cup along the lines of the one I've linked to.
    Barttasse, Tirschenreuth um 1880
    (That's actually a moustache cup but the idea is the same -- it's the precursor to a sippy cup that slows down the baby while they're learning to drink from a cup). We don't have an article on milk set and probably we should to provide something to link to? Or we could link to Baby_bottle#History? Or simply change to "a gift"? Valereee (talk) 13:39, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

Onegreatjoke, also pinging GA reviewer SusunW, who may have some idea of whether we might be able to create a stub for "milk set"? I'm on the road right now but would probably be able to do some research between Nov3-7, when I'll be in one place for several days. Valereee (talk) 13:46, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

@Onegreatjoke and Valereee: A bit of searching provides nothing that explains what would have been in a milk set and the term itself brings up lots of modern sources about baby makeup and milk supplies or a cream/sugar set as part of a tea set, so not helpful. The photos in this article are amazing, but it still gives no clue as to what might have been included in such a set. My analysis is there isn't enough to write a separate article and it would probably best be piped to baby bottle history. SusunW (talk) 14:13, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
Onegreatjoke The source does not elaborate, and other sources I looked at were equally unhelpful. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 18:06, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

with piped link in ALT0, ALT1 also approved. Valereee (talk) 16:28, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

Caroline Harrison
Caroline Harrison
ALT0a: ... that Caroline Harrison (pictured) would mail ceramic milk sets to parents that named their children after U.S president Benjamin Harrison? -- RoySmith (talk) 15:49, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
RoySmith, sorry, probably staring right at it, but is that different from ALT0? Valereee (talk) 17:05, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
Only in that it includes the photo :-) -- RoySmith (talk) 17:10, 26 November 2022 (UTC)