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Discover How President Theodore Roosevelt Inspired the World’s First Teddy Bear, Which Went on Sale on This Day in 1903
The unlikely origin story of the beloved children’s toy involves a hunting expedition in Onward, Mississippi, and a president ...
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‘A Bundle of Horridness’: The Great Teddy Bear Panic of 1907
It wasn’t just his anti-teddy position but his reasoning. Esper believed that teddy bears threatened to undermine the maternal instincts of little girls he believed were better nourished by doll ...