These were popular for a while in London and New York. Wikipedia,

At the beginning of the World War II, the Battle of Britain led by the Luftwaffe ended the usage of baby cages in all London, but they appeared again from 1953, albeit not as popular as before.

Here is a baby looking what I feel is entirely too pleased about the situation,

Baby Cage

And another with what seems like a more appropriate level of distress,

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EDIT to replace one suspected AI image, per suspicion from mossy_@lemmy.world in thread below.

  • EnmebaraGuesser@piefed.caOPEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Ah, I see what you mean. Seems to me those are enough to make the image suspect, so I’ll edit the post in a few minutes here and replace that image.

    Thanks! Btw I got to be a frequent poster a few weeks ago but I have no other association with the group, so I don’t know if there is any kind of post checking other than just having people notice things like you did here.