Tag: Baby carriers

• Stop that Carriage!

  

  The runaway baby carriage is a classic film trope but does it really happen in real life? where did the trope get started?

  Aradia Wyndham

  June 5, 2020

  Babies

  accessibility, baby carriage, Baby carriers, babywearing, buggy, disability, film history, history, infant care, internet of things, public transit, safety, smart strollers, stroller, trope

• Updated: Hogarth’s Infant Carriers

  

  Today we’re looking at baby carriers in William Hogarth’s The March of the Guards to Finchley from 1750. The March of the Guards to Finchley, depicts a fictional troop of buffoonish British troops in Tottenham Court Road, in London, on their way to fight the Jacobean forces in the uprising of 1745. It’s an example […]

  Aradia Wyndham

  March 3, 2020

  Babies, Video

  18th century, art history, baby, Baby carriers, babywearing, British Army, England, Foundling Hospital, Foundling Museum, Georgian, Hanoverian, Henry Fielding, Jacobean, London, William Hogarth, Working moms