BABIES SOLD as PRODUCTS
Baby Farms and Baby Shops.
Discussion of a lost history of babies being sold as commodities and shipped as merchandise
Question of why this isn't widely known and if it was deliberately buried
Postcards from 1890-1920 show babies sprouting from cabbages and evidence of baby farms and shops.
Babies for sale in early 1900s.
Postcards from early 1900s depict babies for sale, treated as mere products and commodities.
Phrases like "I will be good" and "I would love you" accompany the babies, highlighting commodification of human life.
Some postcards show babies confined in cages, treated like pets or animals.
Selling Babies in the Early 1900s.
Postcards from early 1900s suggest babies were being sold, addressed to Mr. & Miss Charlotte. Connects to orphan trains, foundling hospitals & World Fairs. Film from 1896 shows fairy handling parentless children. Raises questions of why kept secret.
Postcards from the early 1900s.
Meeting focused on postcards from early 1900s featuring babies & cabbages, each postcard unique in its own way.
Surreal postcards from the early 1900s.
Postcards from early 1900s featured surreal images of babies in various scenarios, from Phrygian caps to being delivered in chariots, defecating in chamber pots, intoxicated, and even hanged from power poles.
Historic images of babies.
Meeting discussed historic images of babies from 1908-1907, incl. milk from cow, babies working on fields, wearing hats, on a roof, storks teaching in classroom, and landing from shipment.
Images suggest storks may have been air transfer for packages/babies, tying into Charles Kingsley's book about symbolism, life, rebirth, and spirits.
The Mailman Delivering Babies.
The Mailman Delivering Babies is a historic image used in many categories, including the Red Woman/Midwife, Kids From, and a US postage stamp.
Images include a woman washing a baby, babies boiled in a cauldron, a hot air balloon with kids from San Jose, and a US postage stamp with babies in cages.
Our first book: An in-depth and visual journey.
Announcing their first book, written and designed by themselves, using Amazon KDP.
In-depth and visual, with premium ink and breakdown of subject matter.
Includes multiple videos, baby incubators, outskirt films, ancient references, postcards and translations.
Great coffee table book, comments from videos in back.
Appreciate support for research and bigger projects.
The Orphan Train Movement and its Postcards.
Postcards depicting the Orphan Train Movement symbolize a practice of selling and distributing babies, raising questions about their purpose and the techniques used to grow new citizens.
Language and imagery on the postcards suggest they were advertisements for infants as products or produce.
The notion of reseeding operations and queen bee goddesses are connected to foundling hospitals.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Postcards from the early 1900s depict babies being sold as commodities, with captions such as “Babies for Sale” and “Cries of Paris: Here are pretty cabbage heads, babies not expensive”.
These postcards feature artwork of babies, some with their names written in ink, and captions that translate to “I wish you a similar small family”, suggesting that these babies were based on real children.
The postcards also feature babies in baskets, as if they were produce in a grocery store, and cabbages with babies sprouting from them, tying us back to the larger theme of repopulation.
The postcards also feature babies confined in cages, treated like pets or even animals, and one card proclaiming “For Sale: Buy Me, I’m Bored Here”.
The practice of selling babies has been a topic of much debate and speculation throughout history, and is connected to broader topics such as orphan trains, foundling hospitals, and even World Fairs.
The postcards also feature babies wearing hats, such as Phrygian caps, a symbol of the French Revolution, and babies being transferred in an electric tram.
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