The recent addition to my inventory of a pile of postcards featuring babies made me wonder a little more specifically about a matter we have mentioned hereinbefore. Postcards of infants are filled with sociological observations, but most of those can be left to others, i.e., the proportion of mothers to fathers in baby-holding, theContinue reading “Hitting the Bottle”
Tag Archives: Babies
Who Brings Baby Storks?
This sort of thing used to depress me no end. Selling unused baby books was sometimes entertaining, as one glanced at the sorts of things the publisher thought you would want to record forever, plus the odd illustrations they added to the pages. Those that were filled in, however, were depressing. Was no oneContinue reading “Who Brings Baby Storks?”
Oh See De CDV!
Last time, we were discussing the cdv, or carte-de-visite, a combination portrait and calling card popular for about fifty years, roughly between the Civil War and World War I. The vast majority of these were produced for use, rather than as collectibles, and do not benefit from having a name printed on them. And,Continue reading “Oh See De CDV!”
Babies Do These Things
Another cute and cuddly creature assigned certain jobs on comic postcards was the baby. For the purposes of our discussion, these are children too small to walk or get up and use the potty, for, as noted above, they were frequently assigned some of the same jobs as the cat and especially the dog.Continue reading “Babies Do These Things”
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