Name: Sunbabe “So-Wee”
Made by and When: The Sun Rubber Company, 1950s
Material: Rubber
Marks: (Head) SUNBABE / “SO-WEE” / RUTH E. NEWTON / ©NEW YORK, N.Y.; (back) DESIGNED BY / RUTH E. NEWTON / MFD. BY / THE SUN RUBBER CO. / BARBERTON, O. U.S.A. / PAT. 2118682 / PAT. 2160739
Height: 10 inches
Hair, Eyes, Mouth: Sculpted curls with tendrils on the forehead, amber-colored inset glassine eyes, a drinker mouth with red lip color
Clothes: Period-appropriate professionally sewn pink dress with an image of a fawn on the white collar, rubber pants, and white vinyl baby shoes
Other: So-Wee is a drink-and-wet baby doll with bent baby legs designed by Ruth E. Newton for The Sun Rubber Company. Other Sunbabe dolls were designed by Newton for The Sun Rubber Company during the 1950s.
More About Ruth Eleanor Newton: “In the late 1940s, Newton began designing dolls, including one called ‘Amosandra‘, in 1949 in conjunction with the ‘Amos and Andy’ radio show. She went on to design nearly 30 other dolls, but none which created the excitement of ‘Amosandra’.” (Ruth Eleanor Newton).
Reference:
Ruth Eleanor Newton. (2022, December 6). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Eleanor_Newton
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