Baby's ball - Poulsson, Emilie, 1853-1939. (New York : Art Fabric Mills, 1900)
From Neutrogena, via Pontius. NT-1322.
The ball is divided into 6 sections, each with a color lithographed illustration. Each illustration is accompanied by 2 lines of a well known nursery rhyme : "here's a ball for baby, nice and soft and round / here's the baby's hammer, hear the baby pound / here's the baby's soldiers, standing in a row / here's the baby's trumpet, hear the baby blow / don't take the ball away, to make baby cry / here's the baby's cradle, to rock baby by".
The ball is homemade, cut out from a cloth pattern sheet which includes the 6 sections of the ball, instructions for assembly, patent information, and lyrics and music staff for "Baby's ball".
Manufacture and date information attained from Ebay listing of original uncut cloth pattern sheet, see electronic access.
Earliest attribution of "All for baby" nursery rhyme found in Finger Plays: for nursery and kindergarten, Emilie Poulsson (1893), p.37-40. Lyrics and music differ slightly. see cid: 86551.
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