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Screenshot of Instagram user hellicty_merriman post, 2022, courtesy of the author.
  • Culture and Society

What Do American Girl Dolls Say About Us?

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on August 8, 2022

I’m always on the lookout for play in everyday social media trends and breaking news…

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Turning on the Kettle, Foxy Belle, flickr, January 29, 2022, Courtesy of Creative Commons Attribution.
  • Culture and Society

Pampered Pooches: Anthropomorphized Dolls

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on May 26, 2022

The Strong recently acquired a few anthropomorphized fashion dolls. A dog with a human-like body…

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  • Toy Companies

Toy Matchmaker: A New Service from Global Toy Experts

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on November 25, 2021December 1, 2021

Created initially to help alleviate empty shelves and retailer out-of-stock issues due to supply chain…

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Jerry Lawson, Video Soft, and the History of the First Black-Owned Video Game Development Company

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on June 24, 2021June 24, 2021

By 1980, Jerry Lawson was ready for a change. The 40-year-old electrical engineer had spent…

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  • Culture and Society

Otherwise “Parkerized”: Oral Histories from Parker Brothers

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on January 7, 2021January 14, 2021

Parker Brothers, founded in Salem, Massachusetts in 1883, published more than 1,800 games during its…

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Baby Nancy Inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on November 12, 2020December 22, 2020

It all began following the 1965 Watts Riots in Los Angeles, California. Louis S. Smith,…

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  • Announcement

Block by Block: Leslie Scott’s Jenga Game (or, in Swahili, Zuia kwa kuzuia: Mchezo wa Jenga wa Leslie Scott)

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on November 5, 2020

Born in Tanganyika (now the Republic of Tanzania) in East Africa, English national Leslie Scott…

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  • Catalogs

Digitizing and Preserving Toy Trade Catalogs: The Sacred Duty of the Librarians of Play

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on September 24, 2020September 24, 2020

There are five laws of library science, penned by S. R. Ranganathan in 1931: Books…

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  • Culture and Society

Activity Sets: Playing with Glass, Foil, Plastic, and Goop

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on April 3, 2020June 4, 2020

Spending most of my time at home with my young children has revealed that I’m…

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