 They were originally manufactured by Hertwig and Company, but other porcelain factories in Germany began creating the figurines soon after.The release of the Snow Baby figurines coincided with the birth of Admiral Robert Peary's daughter in Greenland while he was on an expedition to the North Pole in 1893.She was the first non-indigenous baby to be born that far north (13 degrees south of the pole), earning her the nickname "snow baby" from the Inuit.