Here is Hidden Things, a 20 page staple-bound booklet published by Saalfield Publishing Co. in 1938. The cover is credited to "D + D Downs." Every has a drawing with a verse, cluing the reader in on hidden items that may be found in the drawing.
"The Saalfield Company published children's books and other products from 1899 to 1977 and was, at one time, one of the largest publishers of children's materials in the world."- Kent State University library (where the Saalfield archives are held).
This was an inexpensive, mass-produced item. Maybe it was something that Dad would buy at the newsstand on the way home to occupy the child. Admission: I was not entirely successful at solving all of these hidden pictures. Take a look.
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gd that cover...
perfection.
And all these decades later, it lured me in and made me buy it!
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