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TIMBER TOTS 1922 wooden vintag toy company factory photo Rowena Young,Ava Nelson
$86.00
from the files of a newspaper, will have expected markings on back (in varying degrees)associated with newspaper use and publication, may also have markings on the front such as hand touchup, highlighting or crop marks typical of newspaper industry used photos
interesting story on this---these 2 women started and owned their own toy company in the 1920s. They went to furniture factories and took the scrap wood and then made wooden toy dolls out of the scraps.
Here is text from a 1922 news article online : Chicago. Feb. 28--Art for art\'s sake alone, grew tedious for two young women here and so Miss Rowena Young and her co-partner,Ava Nelson, veered away from Sheer idealism and are now on the road to wealth. Wasted scraps--broken pieces of wood--in a furniture factory, where they were employed as designers, inspired an inventive faculty now earning them thousands of dollars.
It was following a hard day of toil that Rowena came home to their little studio apartment and said: \"Let\'s do something that can take us away from all this.\" And thus were born the \"Timber- Tots\"--newest fashions of the doll world, made from abandoned table legs and cast off bits of bri-a-brac. With the increasing popularity of these toys has grown the fortunes of their \'two creators, who now employ almost 100 workers, sales-men, and distribute their product throughout the world. \"We had several thousand \"Timber Tots\" on our hands before we started selling,\" Miss Young said. \"Then we went to the work of marketing our product with a punch.
\"Business has been booming. We find no such thing as depression. In the past 10 weeks we have opened more than 400 new accounts.\" Both girls--neither is over 26--say that what kept them at \'their work was the idea of vindicating their own estimation of themselves. \"And then, too, we thought It was about time that children be given some sort of new doll,\" says Miss Young. \"Even wood has a soul when you touch it right. And there is use tor everything that is left. The lumber scrap piles will put us on easy street within the next six months.\" />
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