Extra Lg Vintage Sunnytops Coloring Book Saalfield Publishing Company c1933 

For your consideration an Extra Large Sunnytops Coloring Book given as a Christmas gift in c1933. This wonderful vintage coloring book chock full of wonderful images and art exercises for the child in the thirties. Signed as a christmas gift in 1933. 

Printed on the title page: 

"Happy Children Painting and Drawing Book" 

A mammoth  painting and drawing book chock-full intensely interesting pictures in color and outline for children at home. 

Akron, O.

The Saalfield Publishing Co., 

NewYork 

• Many pages are colored on , 
• but even more are uncolored 
• The pages are printed in various colored ink. 
• The subjects of the illustrations are varied from farm animals, circus to western themed 

Measures: 10 by 13 inches 

Contains: over 100 pages 

Bit-o history (Wiki) 

The Saalfield Publishing Company published children's books and other products from 1900 to 1977. It was once one of the largest publishers of children's materials in the world.

The company was founded in 1900 in Akron, Ohio, by Arthur J. Saalfield who had come to take charge of the Werner Company's publishing department. During its flourishing, the company published the works of authors including Louisa May Alcott, Horatio Alger, P. T. Barnum, Daniel Defoe, Colonel George Durston, Laura Lee Hope, Herman Melville, Dr. Seuss, Anna Sewell, Shirley Temple, Johanna Spyri, Mark Twain, Johann Rudolf Wyss, and Robert Sidney Bowen.

Saalfield published the New Americanized Encyclopædia Britannica in 1903, and was sued for copyright violation.

The company also published educational toys and games, including the game Blockhead!.

A page from Ethel Hays's version of Peter Rabbit © Saalfield Publishing Company.

Among the artists employed by Saalfield was noted illustrator Ethel Hays. She worked on a variety of the company's juvenile titles, including Peter Rabbit, The Night Before Christmas, and The Little Red Hen. Her most notable work came after Saalfield had secured the license from the Johnny Gruelle Company in 1944 to produce Raggedy Anne and Andy material. Storybooks, coloring books, and paper doll [1] booklets soon followed. Most of the artwork fell to Hays, "whose exuberant, curvilinear style perfectly captured the whimsy and energy of Gruelle's characters." [2]

In April 1977 Saalfield Publishing Company shut down, and its library and archives were purchased by Kent State University.

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