The Ideal Toy Corporation

Toy maker Morris Michtom, famous for the stuffed bears that he began calling teddy bears in 1903, founded the Ideal Toy and Novelty Company that same year. The firm began making dolls in 1906. Its dolls included the first American character doll, The Yellow Kid (1907); sleeping-eye dolls (1914); crying dolls (1920); Shirley Temple dolls […]