1937 Life Magazine compilation book: 461 ppm Lead on the pages (& 13 ppm Cadmium). 90 ppm Lead (& up) is unsafe for kids.
1876 Book: Home Talk, Medical Common Sense (…Society, Love, Marriage, Parentage, Etc., Etc.): 1,478 ppm Lead & 18 ppm Cadmium & 133 ppm Mercury (in the cover).
1977 Walt Disney Winnie The Pooh & Tigger Too – read along book: 17 ppm Lead (safe by all standards.)
1956 copy of Harry The Dirty Dog: 3,099 ppm Lead. 90 ppm (& up) is considered unsafe and illegal in modern books for kids.
Testing vintage books for Lead with Lead Safe Mama, February 24, 2020 (Video): Harry the Dirty Dog (1956)
1961 P.D. Eastman’s “Go Dog Go?”: 131 ppm Lead + 11 ppm Arsenic! Are your kid’s books safe? Are they vintage?
