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Title	Tykie Toy Tales
Subject	Business and Labor Daily Life Toys Toy industry
Place	Piqua (Ohio) Miami County (Ohio)
Description	This promotional book, titled "Tykie Toy Tales" was published by the Tykie Toy Company of Piqua, Ohio in 1946. The book uses Tykie Toy characters such as "Baby Bunny" "Cannibal Baby" and "Boppy Bear" in stories for children. It is 40 pages in length and measures 6.5" x 8.5" (16.51 x 21.59 cm). Due to a printing error, pages 24 through 27 are repeated. The first Tykie toys were produced by Richard B. and Sarah L. Grosvenor in their home in Piqua, Ohio. The couple made the toys when their son, Michael, nicknamed "Tykie" began teething. Grosvenor worked in the accounting department of the Piqua Hosiery Company until the business was absorbed by one of the other four underwear factories in the city. Grosvenor then organized a family business to manufacture toys. The business operated out of the former machine shop of Grosvenor's father, and the family lived upstairs. By 1944, the firm had fifteen employees and was shipping their products to Saks in New York and Marshall Field's in Chicago. Product names included "Baby Bunny" "Tom-Tom- Rattles" and "Billy the Bellboy." After World War II, the company expanded but production was brought to a halt during the coal strike of 1946, since the Catalin plastic used in the toys was made from coal tar. Tykie Toys re-opened in 1947 and continued to manufacture toys until around 1952.
Creator	Tykie Toy Company
Date of Original	1946
Collection	Tykie Toy Collection
Source	Published material SC-939
Submitting Institution	Flesh Public Library and Museum
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html
Type	Text

Title	Om1687_2660664_003
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om1687_2660664_003.tif
Image Height	3366
Image Width	2537
File Size	2555.225 KB

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