The baby boomer generation, in addition to being large in numbers, also began at a time when the parents had endured the ...

NMAI copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift from the Margery Masinter Foundation Endowment for Illustrated Books. Contents Toy stories. Introduction -- 1900s-10s. New century, old ...

British retailer Mothercare is facing a backlash after advertising its range of cleaning toys with young girls dressed as 1950s housewives. With her hair tied in rollers, one young girl wears a polka ...

Bernard Loomis, an influential toy marketer who, by turning advertisements for toys into children’s cartoon programming, was dubbed “the man who invented Saturday morning,” died of heart disease June ...