This 1880 advertisement for S. Smith &amp; Son shoes, in Woodstock, Vermont, features babies (possibly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/putto" class="extiw" title="w:putto">putti</a>) playing amongst large boots, and a poem promoting the virtues of Smith &amp; Son shoes.
Unknown author<span style="display: none;">Unknown author</span>
no later than October 27, 1880
<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023296/1880-10-27/ed-1/seq-3/">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023296/1880-10-27/ed-1/seq-3/</a>  (Spirit of the Age - Woodstock, Vermont)