Timmie
date: label: date made
content: 1928
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Timmie the teddy bear was purchased during a shopping trip to the Hecht Company in Washington, D.C. in late 1928 or early 1929. A boy named Lewis, who was around two years old at the time, was on a shopping trip with his mother when a sales associate who was working on a display of teddy bears put Timmie into his arms. Timmie found Lewis’s loving arms around him and traveled to his new home with Lewis on the Mount Pleasant streetcar in Washington, D.C. Timmie is wearing blue-gray cotton workman’s trousers which were made especially for him by an employee of a large garment factory in McMinnville, Tennessee. These trousers are an exact miniature duplicate of the men’s workpants made in the factory in the early 1930s. In addition to his custom pants, he has a homemade crocheted brown-and-green pullover with matching collar band, mittens, and booties. And under all of that is a pair of blue silk underpants! His outfit is accessorized with many small items, including a wristwatch, pocket watch, pocket knife, compass, and a hunting knife, which were purchased at a Woolworth’s in Washington, D.C.
place: label: purchased
content: United States: District of Columbia
topic: label: Subject
content: Toys
label: Subject
content: Teddy Bears
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. A. L. Harrison in honor of Lewis Harrison
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0938.01
label: accession number
content: 1979.0938
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0938.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bear, Stuffed
label: Other Terms
content: Bear, Stuffed; Animals; Toys
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cloth (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (eyes material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (trousers material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (belt material)
label: Physical Description
content: wool (pullover; mittens; booties material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (underpants material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 46 cm x 24 cm; 18 1/8 in x 9 7/16 in