Nearly forgotten but glorious art, envisionings and historical oddments from the back corners of the internet
My parents weren’t having a baby in 1948 but somebody was and maybe they looked through “It’s Lullabye Time,” a trade catalogue from the Lullabye Furniture Corporation of Stevens Point, Wisconsin. I assume they mailed these out to a mailing list of expectant mothers or you could walk into a furniture store and pick one up.
Front cover of It’s LULLABY Time. Stamped patent office – January 17 1948 – Design Division A trade catalogue put out by a trade catalogue from the Lullabye Furniture Corporation of Stevens Point, Wisconsin. American. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/lullabye-furniture-1948/page/n4/mode/1upCRADLE SONG (page 1 of 2). Page 1 of It’s LULLABY Time. Stamped patent office – January 17 1948 – Design Division A trade catalogue put out by a trade catalogue from the Lullabye Furniture Corporation of Stevens Point, Wisconsin. American. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/lullabye-furniture-1948/page/n1/mode/1up“Dude Ranch” Ensemble. Every little boy or girl will give a big “yip-e-e-e hi-ho” for a Dude Ranch room. What fun to be a cowboy or a cowgirl, to live and entertain the neighborhood small set in a bedroom-playroom that is authentically western to the core. Here truly is an atmosphere for little people that will stimulate self-reliance, fire the imagination and accentuate the habits of neatness and responsibility. Page 7 of It’s LULLABY Time. Stamped patent office – January 17 1948 – Design Division A trade catalogue put out by a trade catalogue from the Lullabye Furniture Corporation of Stevens Point, Wisconsin. American. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/lullabye-furniture-1948/page/n7/mode/1up“Dream Boat” Ensemble. What fun to have a sailor room… to be the skipper of this charming youth group of breath-taking beauty. Shown here in glowing, natural honey birch, Dream Boat is also available in lovely pastel enamel as illustrated in the Infant’s Set on the opposite page. But regardless of the finish you may choose, the trim, nautical lines of this set will win the heart of your little boy or girl, and the open admiration of all others who see it. The side rails of the bed are turned in a natural rope twist, the drawer pulls fashioned to appear as net floats. Other marine touches, such as the anchor backed mother’s chair, and the rounded wave corners of all pieces, make this an enchanting, happy room. Page 11 of It’s LULLABY Time. Stamped patent office – January 17 1948 – Design Division A trade catalogue put out by a trade catalogue from the Lullabye Furniture Corporation of Stevens Point, Wisconsin. American. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/lullabye-furniture-1948/page/n11/mode/1up“Piggy Bank” Infants’ Set. Here is a delightful, charming room for baby that goes straight to the heart of all who see it—a combination of essential, functional pieces that suggest happiness on sight. Yet this Piggy Bank group, or any other pleasing Lullabye ensemble, represents much more than just furniture to carry you through the period of infancy and the baby years. Basically, this furniture is planned so that as baby | grows, the room grows too, developing into a youth room. Only one of these original pieces — the crib—will sooner or later find its way to retirement. All of the rest, the chifferobe, costumer, toy chest and | mother’s chair carry on through all of the years from babyhood to high school days. Along with the youth bed, a writing desk, and perhaps a child’s table and chair set, are the only major additions that need be added to give your little boy or girl a fully ensembled, functional child’s room. Page 14 of It’s LULLABY Time. Stamped patent office – January 17 1948 – Design Division A trade catalogue put out by a trade catalogue from the Lullabye Furniture Corporation of Stevens Point, Wisconsin. American. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/lullabye-furniture-1948/page/n14/mode/1upBYE BYE BABY BUNTING. Page 29 of It’s LULLABY Time. Stamped patent office – January 17 1948 – Design Division A trade catalogue put out by a trade catalogue from the Lullabye Furniture Corporation of Stevens Point, Wisconsin. American. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/lullabye-furniture-1948/page/n29/mode/1up
Lullabye Furniture was founded in 1897. They closed in the 1990s.
On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.
View all posts by sarahbguestperry
