The Wonder of American Toys

Description by OLDIES.com:

Something happens when playing with, or even simply looking at, an admired toy. Magic occurs. Long before Cabbage Patch dolls, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Tickle Me Elmo, America was mass-producing simple remarkable toys that usually sold for less than a dollar. The Wonder of American Toys reflects not only the toys of perhaps the most formative era of American history, but what they meant to the children who played with them, and to the society that produce them. From the Jazz Age, the gangster era, the Depression, World War II and the onset of the Atomic Age - it's all compellingly presented here, a glorious primer of life in America as it was lived not so long ago.