The untold story of the teddy bear
By: by Patricia Thorne
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [s.l.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9781457513244; 9781457513237
Subjects: History; Teddy bears; Soft toys; Margarete Steiff GmbH
Notes: "The Untold Story of the Teddy Bear fills in the mysterious missing part of the history of the Teddy Bear, shedding new light on how the Teddy Bear got its name and what happened to the lost 1903 shipment of Steiff's original toy bears"--Cover p. [4].
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Kay Drenkhahn letter; title: How it began: the man who brought the first Teddy bear to America; title: Letters from abroad: a chronical of Granddad's buying trips to Europe and Asia; title: Carson Pirie Scott & Co.: the first store to market the Teddy bear; title: The birth of the Teddy bear: the story of Margarete Steiff; title: Teddy bears arrival in America: the first jointed bears in advertisements and editorials; title: Teddy bears then and now: Steiff's early toy bears to today's Teddy bear artists; title: Bears that make life bearable: the many lives of the Teddy bear.