Marching plays. Designed for little children at home
Marching Plays, Designed for Little Children at Home is a late nineteenth-century Boston children's activity book from the Alpha Publishing Company, compiled by Grey Burleson, Frank E. Saville and Kate Louise Brown with illustrations by L. J. Bridgman, for parents to use with young children. The pen-and-ink pictures show a mother and children in domestic settings, a child peering at a hen in a circular vignette, and children playing with cats and a bird-like toy, and they suggest gentle, sentimental nursery scenes with soft shading and tidy, period costume for designers working on vintage children's material.
