1950's Dolly Toy Co. Little Boy Blue 256 Mother Goose Pin-Ups - Tipp City, Ohio

Description

H.B. Holtvoight started Dolly Toy in Dayton in 1923 as The Dolly Folding Kite Company. He was later joined in the business by his sons, Hubert G. Sr. and John, as well as his daughter, Mildred.
However, the kite business didn't prosper, so in an attempt to bolster profits the company started making toys out of laminated box board. These toys proved successful and in 1929 the business became The Dolly Folding Kite and Toy Company.
At the end of World War II one of Dolly's artists, Phil Riley, designed a new kind of wall decoration for nurseries and children's rooms, and the popular Mother Goose Pin-Ups were born.
Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn,
The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn.
Where is that boy who looks after the sheep?
He's under a haystack, fast asleep.
Will you wake him? Oh no, not I,
For if I do, he'll surely cry.