Baby Cage, 1937
A nanny supervising a baby suspended in a wire cage attached to the outside of a high tenement block window. The cages were distributed to members of the Chelsea Baby Club in London who have no gardens, or qualms about putting a child in a box dangling over a busy street.
Photo: Reg Speller/Getty Images
Jun 23, 1937
Yikes! this could have been me (had I been born in Chelsea). There were also similar contraptions in the USA. See illustration in the humor book 'Mommy Knows Worst' by James Lileks at your local bookstore.