A total of 5 Early Childhood items are on exhibit. Early Childhood Items 1 thru 5 are displayed below:  Description:   Erma, pictured here at age nine, started tap lessons at the age of five. Erma claimed she wasn't very good, but she soon landed a spot in the Kiddie Review, a local radio show.  Copyright:   Roxey Studios  Location:   Archives Collection, Albert Emmanuel Hall, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio  Description:   Erma, pictured here at age nine, performed on the Kiddie Review, a local radio show, for eight years.  Copyright:   Roxey Studios  Location:   Archives Collection, Albert Emmanuel Hall, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio  Description:   Erma, pictured here at age nine, was a good tap dancer. Erma's mother, like millions of other American moms of the time, dreamed that Erma would one day be as famous as Shirley Temple. Shirley, the singing, dancing child movie star who made her film debut at the age of three, tapped her way through the 1930s starring in a string of musical hits.  Copyright:   Roxey Studios  Location:   Archives Collection, Albert Emmanuel Hall, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio  Description:   At school, Erma played the bookworm. Class clown? Definitely not. But if anyone had cared to search beneath the surface, they would have discovered a child fascinated by humor.  Copyright:   Photographer unknown  Location:   Archives Collection, Albert Emmanuel Hall, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio  Description:   Eight-year-old Erma fishing with her father, Cassius Edwin Fiste. Her dad died when she was nine.  Copyright:   Photographer Unknown  Location:   Archives Collection, Albert Emmanuel Hall, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio