Repopulation Cards of the 1800s
The cabbage patch babies or children that were put on postcards in the usa in the 1800s and became known as the Repopulation Postcards, which displayed images of the babies and enfants in cabbage patch fields. Also known as the Meadow babies.
Showing Babies in a Cabbage Patch
The postcards done in a French style postcard mostly depict babes and enfants growing from a cabbage patch, very little is known about their history and who made them. But it was suggested that Salvador Dali, took great interest in these cards, but the cards makers seemed to remain anynomous. But at the same time this was all occuring, Martin Cooney was displaying what he called the incubator babies which appeared at many world fairs over the united states. Were these babies grown from these incubators? Click here to Join Members
A Film was made about the Cabbage Patch Babies
In 1896 you had a film called the La Fée Aux Choux (The Cabbage Fairy) created by filmmaker Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché (1st July 1873 to the 24th March 1968, ). She was a pioneer filmmaker who specialised in producing narrative fiction-based films. Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché was also the first woman to direct a film anywhere on Planet Earth and appointed the role. She experimented with the Chronophone of Léon Ernest Gaumont, and with colour-tinting and special effects. Click here to Join Members
