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December 19, 2010

Happy Haiga Day!


© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. Image courtesy Library of Congress.

I love this photo labeled "Advertisement for Pictorial Toy Catalogue No. 2." It's from 1887! Not a battery operated toy in the bunch!

2 comments:

  1. I would encourage people to click on the image so they can see it even bigger. I write about kids at a time when toys had no batteries, and I was fascinated by every shelf. I wonder if there's a book somewhere with such pictures collected....

    Thank you!

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  2. If you look closely, there's only one gun, one sword, one whip, and bunches of inanimate objects. Contrast that to what kids play with today.

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