63.23.21

Book, Three Bears

1939

Three Bears. Material: paper. Size: 5 1/2" x 7 1/2". Description: paper, textile "Linenett" nursery rhyme book, "Three Bears" with colored illustrations, published by the Samuel Gabriel Sons & Co., which was founded in 1907, selling paper novelties and publishing children's books. The company was bought by American Colortype in the 1930s.

These cloth story books were kept by the donor's Gigeay grandparents in a bookcase on their front porch at 300 5th Street S. E. They belonged to the donor's uncles, Jim and Bob Gigeay. The donor and her sisters played library with them using the ink pad and stamper their grandfather had used when he was a conductor in the Chicago & Northwestern (C & NW) Railroad passenger service; hence the reason for all of the date stamps on the book.

Three Bears, No.520

Samuel Gabriel Sons & Co.