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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 313116, member: 5833"]Turning my brain's subconscious search engine on. Much slower than Google, but sometimes finds stuff haunting some cubbyhole inaccessible to intentional efforts to remember. Feel I know more about this sort of thing than I can state right now. My mother got interested in old chromolithographs, starting with antique valentines, but eventually got interested in paper ephemera more generally & prints to some degree. Among her things were some framed baby images of this sort. I think popular as nursery decor at one time. 20s? 30s?</p><p><br /></p><p>Meanwhile, think the legs holes are gathered by elastic, creating the ruffled look, but that what you are seeing is little panties meant to cover the nappy, not the nappy itself. Child could be wearing a little summer sun dress, the lace edged bib front rumpled down. Less sure about this.</p><p><br /></p><p>My mother's things are something like <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/521433025/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/521433025/" rel="nofollow">this</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://img1.etsystatic.com/178/0/10928198/il_570xN.1217540395_1xln.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, the baby & the frame are not necessarily the same age.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 313116, member: 5833"]Turning my brain's subconscious search engine on. Much slower than Google, but sometimes finds stuff haunting some cubbyhole inaccessible to intentional efforts to remember. Feel I know more about this sort of thing than I can state right now. My mother got interested in old chromolithographs, starting with antique valentines, but eventually got interested in paper ephemera more generally & prints to some degree. Among her things were some framed baby images of this sort. I think popular as nursery decor at one time. 20s? 30s? Meanwhile, think the legs holes are gathered by elastic, creating the ruffled look, but that what you are seeing is little panties meant to cover the nappy, not the nappy itself. Child could be wearing a little summer sun dress, the lace edged bib front rumpled down. Less sure about this. My mother's things are something like [URL='https://www.etsy.com/listing/521433025/']this[/URL]: [IMG]https://img1.etsystatic.com/178/0/10928198/il_570xN.1217540395_1xln.jpg[/IMG] Of course, the baby & the frame are not necessarily the same age.[/QUOTE]
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