Title:
Soft and fuzzy centennial for 'Teddy's Bear' upon us
Author:
Carol W. Kimball
Subjects:
2002 centennial of the teddy bears
teddy bear namesakes of President Theodore Roosevelt
teddy bear namesakes of President Theodore Roosevelt
Object ID:
Kim08-089
Object Name:
Scrapbook
Category:
8: Communication Artifact
Subcategory:
Documentary Artifact
Publisher:
The Day
Publication Place:
New London, CT
Pubication Date:
07/25/2002
Collection:
Carol W. Kimball
Summary:
The year 2002 marks the centennial of the teddy bears, namesakes of President Theodore Roosevelt, originally called "Teddy's Bears". One story has it that Roosevelt, while hunting in Mississippi, refused to shoot a helpless bear cub and Washington Star political cartoonist Clifford Berryman, in 1902, inspired by this incident, produced a cartoon called DRAWING THE LINE IN MISSISSIPPI. The bear cub soon became Roosevelt's mascot known thereafter as TEDDY's BEAR. In Brooklyn, N.Y., Morris and Rose Mitchom copied the cartoon and created a toy bear they sold as Teddy's Bear and the next year they founded the Ideal Novelty and Toy Corporation. At the same time in Germany a teddy bear was created in the workshop of Margarete Steiff of Giegen.
People:
Roosevelt, Theodore (Pres.)
McKinley
Czolgosz, Leon
Berryman, Clifford
Mitchom, Morris
Mitchom, Rose
McKinley
Czolgosz, Leon
Berryman, Clifford
Mitchom, Morris
Mitchom, Rose
Search Terms:
Teddy's Bears
American teddy bears
American hero
political cartoonist
Mississipi
German Steiff teddy bears
mascot
hunting
American teddy bears
American hero
political cartoonist
Mississipi
German Steiff teddy bears
mascot
hunting