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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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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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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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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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The Rolls-Royce of Jigsaw Puzzles

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on March 19, 2019

Everybody recognizes a jigsaw puzzle. A national craze in the 1930s, puzzles continue to sell…

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Barbie Sales Up! Hot Wheels Sales Up! Mattel Has a Pretty Good Quarter

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on May 1, 2018

You would think, that between the change in CEO's and the Toys R Us shipwreck,…

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