IILLUSTRATED BY BERTHA CORBETT MELCHER The “Mother of the Sunbonnet Babies and the Overall Boys” Copyright, 1916, by Eulalie Osgood Grover All rights reserved Entered at Stationers’ Hall [6] A map showing the places the Overall Boys visited in Switzerland [9] THE OVERALL BOYS IN SWITZERLAND THREE CHEERS FOR EUROPE It was the first…
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The Sunbonnet Babies
Copyright, 1922, by Eulalie Osgood Grover All rights reserved in all countries History Bertha L. Corbett Melcher ‘Sunbonnet Babies were created by Bertha Corbett Melcher (1872–1950).[4] Melcher was born in Denver and moved with her family to Minneapolis in the 1880s. Melcher attended art school in Minneapolis with plans to become a commercial artist.[5] She may have…