"auctions. Teddy bears are among the most popular gifts for children and are often given to adults to signify love, congratulations, or sympathy. The name ""teddy bear"" comes from former United States President Theodore Roosevelt, who was commonly known as ""Teddy"" (though he loathed being referred to as such). The name originated from an incident on a bear hunting trip in Mississippi in November 1902, to which Roosevelt was invited by Mississippi Governor Andrew H. Longino. There were several other hunters competing, and most of them had already killed an animal. A suite of Roosevelt's attendants, led by Holt Collier,"
"Teddy bear A teddy bear is a soft toy in the form of a bear. Developed apparently simultaneously by toymakers Morris Michtom in the U.S. and Richard Steiff in Germany in the early years of the 20th century, and named after President Theodore ""Teddy"" Roosevelt, the teddy bear became an iconic children's toy, celebrated in story, song, and film. Since the creation of the first teddy bears which sought to imitate the form of real bear cubs, ""teddies"" have greatly varied in form, style, color, and material. They have become collector's items, with older and rarer ""teddies"" appearing at public"
"derive from the critical importance of domesticated mammals in that period. Soft toys often have the forms of juvenile mammals, especially bears. The teddy bear was developed apparently simultaneously by the toymakers Morris Michtom in America and Richard Steiff in Germany in the early years of the 20th century. It was named after the big game hunter President Theodore ""Teddy"" Roosevelt. The teddy bear became an iconic children's toy, celebrated in story, song, and film. Anthropomorphism is the innate tendency to attribute human traits, emotions, and intentions to animals, most commonly to mammals, and it is an important part of"
"K. Berryman depicting American president Theodore Roosevelt having compassion for a bear at the end of an unsuccessful hunting trip in Mississippi in 1902, he was also later nicknamed ""Teddy"". Michtom saw the drawing and created a tiny plush bear cub which he sent to Roosevelt. After receiving permission to use Roosevelt's name, Michtom put a plush bear in the shop window with a sign ""Teddy's bear."" After the creation of the bear in 1902, the sale of the bears was so brisk that in 1907 Michtom created the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company. Morris Michtom Morris Michtom (1870 –"
"such as toys or garments, may be named for persons closely associated with them in the public mind. The teddy bear, for example, was named for President Theodore ""Teddy"" Roosevelt, because of a popular story in which the then-President objected to cruel treatment of a bear by hunters. The fedora hat may be considered the ""namesake"" of a fictional character, Princess Fédora Romanoff, from an 1887 play, ""Fédora"", by Victorien Sardou. In her famous portrayal of that character, Sarah Bernhardt wore a soft felt hat with a center crease, which became known popularly as a ""fedora"". Namesake A namesake is"
"extremely high quality collectible plush animals, including Teddy Bears. At the beginning of the 20th century, Steiff was the initiator of the original Teddy Bear, which was named after President Theodore Roosevelt. As Chairman of Roosevelt China Investments, a Boston firm, he has endeavored, despite setbacks, to establish a presence of Saks Fifth Avenue retail stores in mainland China. Those efforts are ongoing. The firm has missed its originally projected 2008 opening date. Roosevelt is father to two children, Winthrop Roosevelt (born November 12, 1982) and Amanda Roosevelt (born March 11, 1986). In 1992, Roosevelt spent his 50th birthday rafting"
"Morris Michtom Morris Michtom (1870 – July 21, 1938), was a Russian-born businessman and inventor, who with his wife Rose, invented the teddy bear in 1902. They founded the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company, which after Michtom's death became the largest doll-making company in the United States. Michtom was born to a Jewish family and immigrated to New York in 1887. He sold candy in his shop at 404 Tompkins Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn by day and made stuffed animals with his wife Rose at night. The teddy bear was inspired by a cartoon by Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Clifford"
"Marshall Leib Marshall Leib (January 26, 1939 – March 15, 2002) was one of the original members of The Teddy Bears. Leib and his high school friend, producer Phil Spector, formed the trio. Leib performed background harmony vocals and they made a black-and-white film of the song ""To Know Him Is to Love Him"", which became the number one song in the U.S. The Teddy Bears' song has since been covered by many artists such as Dolly Parton and Amy Winehouse, to name just two. Leib knew many celebrities, including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers,"
"Seymour Eaton Seymour Eaton (May 7, 1859 – March 16, 1916) was a Canadian-born American author, journalist, editor, and publisher. He founded the Booklovers' Library in 1900 which became known as the world's largest circulating library, and is credited with coining the name ""Teddy bear"". Born in the community of Epping in Grey County, Ontario, Canada, Eaton was educated in Canadian schools and taught in district schools for seven years. He became a resident of Boston in 1880, and from there went to Philadelphia in 1892. He founded, in the United States and Britain, the Booklovers' and Tabard Inn libraries."
"(Jason Leib and Lucas Leib) and one adopted son, Jason Lawrence. Marshall Leib Marshall Leib (January 26, 1939 – March 15, 2002) was one of the original members of The Teddy Bears. Leib and his high school friend, producer Phil Spector, formed the trio. Leib performed background harmony vocals and they made a black-and-white film of the song ""To Know Him Is to Love Him"", which became the number one song in the U.S. The Teddy Bears' song has since been covered by many artists such as Dolly Parton and Amy Winehouse, to name just two. Leib knew many celebrities,"
"Betjeman's arms when he died in 1984. Archibald Ormsby-Gore Archibald Ormsby-Gore, better known as Archie, was the teddy-bear of English poet laureate John Betjeman. Together with a toy elephant known as Jumbo, he was a lifelong companion of Betjeman's. Betjeman brought his bear with him when he went up to university at Oxford in the 1920s, and as a result Archie became the model for Aloysius, Sebastian Flyte's bear in Evelyn Waugh's novel ""Brideshead Revisited"". In the 1940s, Betjeman also wrote and illustrated a story for his children, entitled ""Archie and the Strict Baptists"", in which the bear's sojourns at"
"to make the toy when he came across a cartoon of Theodore Roosevelt refusing to shoot an American black bear cub tied to a tree. The fictional character Winnie-the-Pooh was named after Winnipeg, a female American black bear cub that lived at the London Zoo from 1915 until her death in 1934. An American black bear cub, who in the spring of 1950 was caught in the Capitan Gap Fire, was made into the living representative of Smokey Bear, the mascot of the United States Forest Service. Terrible Ted was a de-toothed and de-clawed American black bear who was trained"
"Roosevelt is the stuffed toy bears—teddy bears—named after him following an incident on a hunting trip in Mississippi in 1902. Roosevelt has been portrayed in films and television series such as ""Brighty of the Grand Canyon"", ""The Wind and the Lion"", ""Rough Riders"", ""My Friend Flicka"","" and Law of the Plainsman."" Robin Williams portrayed Roosevelt in the form of a wax mannequin that comes to life in ""Night at the Museum"" and its sequels """" and """". In 2017, it was announced that Leonardo DiCaprio will portray Roosevelt in a biopic to be directed by Martin Scorsese. Moreover, Theodore Roosevelt"
"Winnie the Pooh (Disney character) Winnie the Pooh is a fictional teddy bear and the title character from the Disney media franchise based on A. A. Milne's ""Winnie-the-Pooh"" (1926) and ""The House at Pooh Corner"" (1928). Pooh is one of the most popular Disney characters and was included in TV Guide's list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time in 2002 and also has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Disney's Pooh was originally voiced by Sterling Holloway (1966–1977) in three featurettes that were later used as segments in ""The Many Adventures of Winnie the"
"a teddy bear. I immediately realised there was a huge potential for a mascot beyond the 2D logo"". The bear was named after her hometown of Pudsey, West Yorkshire, where her grandfather was mayor. A reproduction of the bear mascot (made of vegetation) is in Pudsey park, near the town centre. Originally introduced for the 1985 appeal, Pudsey Bear was created as a triangular shaped logo, depicting a yellow-orange teddy bear with a red bandana tied over one eye. The bandana had a pattern of small black triangles. The mouth of the bear depicted a sad expression. The lettering ""BBC"""
"Teddy Bear (Red Sovine song) ""Teddy Bear"" is a song made famous by country music singer Red Sovine. Released in 1976, the song was the title track to Sovine's album released that same year. The song — actually, a recitation with an instrumental backing — was one of Sovine's many recordings that saluted the American truck driver. ""Teddy Bear,"" released during the height of the citizens' band radio craze of the mid-1970s, is titled after the song's main character, a young paraplegic boy whose semi-trailer truck-driving father had been killed in a road accident, and is left with a CB"
"Michi Takahashi Michi Takahashi (real name: Michiyo Takahashi, Christian name: Saint Mary Chiara, maiden name: Yoshimura, born July 22, 1963) is a teddy bear artist in Japan. She is well known in the teddy bear industry in the world as the pioneer teddy bear artist in Japan, who enhanced the charm of teddy bear as an art, not just a stuffed toy. One of her masterpieces “Look Here Bees! I’m Good Boy Takuya!” was nominated for TOBY ® awards in 1996¸ and won the highest praise from teddy bear fans in the world. She depicted the art of Takuya Kimura,"
"and other Berryman cartoons made the bear smaller and cuter. Morris Michtom saw the drawing of Roosevelt and was inspired to create a teddy bear. He created a tiny soft bear cub and put it in the shop window with a sign ""Teddy's bear,"" after sending a bear to Roosevelt and receiving permission to use his name. The toys were an immediate success and Michtom founded the Ideal Novelty and Toy Co. At the same time in Germany, the Steiff firm, unaware of Michtom's bear, produced a stuffed bear from Richard Steiff's designs. Steiff exhibited the toy at the Leipzig"
"Winnie-the-Pooh Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear, is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne. The first collection of stories about the character was the book ""Winnie-the-Pooh"" (1926), and this was followed by ""The House at Pooh Corner"" (1928). Milne also included a poem about the bear in the children's verse book ""When We Were Very Young"" (1924) and many more in ""Now We Are Six"" (1927). All four volumes were illustrated by E. H. Shepard. The Pooh stories have been translated into many languages, including Alexander Lenard's Latin translation, ""Winnie ille Pu"", which was first"
"in 1936 and is interred in Greenville, Mississippi. Holt Collier Holt Collier (c. 1848 – August 1, 1936) was a noted African-American Confederate scout, bear hunter and sportsman. While leading a hunt for U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt in November 1902, Collier unwittingly set the stage for the event that originated Roosevelt's nickname, ""Teddy Bear."" Collier was born circa 1848 as a slave in Mississippi and was the third generation to serve the Hinds family on Plum Ridge Plantation, built by General Thomas Hinds, who was a veteran of the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. At the request of General"
"did not earn this bear though a fair pursuit. Political cartoonist Clifford Berryman immediately drew a cartoon depicting Roosevelt refusing to shoot the restrained bear. The story made national headlines and a shopkeeper, Morris Michtom in Brooklyn, New York, had his wife sew a stuffed bear to sell in his store. He wrote Roosevelt asking permission to call the child's toy, Teddy's Bear. Roosevelt gave his permission, and history was made. When in the field, the initial question for every fair chase hunter is whether the animal has a reasonable opportunity to elude the hunter. If the animal does not,"
"Archibald Ormsby-Gore Archibald Ormsby-Gore, better known as Archie, was the teddy-bear of English poet laureate John Betjeman. Together with a toy elephant known as Jumbo, he was a lifelong companion of Betjeman's. Betjeman brought his bear with him when he went up to university at Oxford in the 1920s, and as a result Archie became the model for Aloysius, Sebastian Flyte's bear in Evelyn Waugh's novel ""Brideshead Revisited"". In the 1940s, Betjeman also wrote and illustrated a story for his children, entitled ""Archie and the Strict Baptists"", in which the bear's sojourns at the family's successive homes in Uffington and"
"Polar the Titanic Bear Polar the Titanic Bear is a children's book written by Margaretta ""Daisy"" Corning Spedden (née Stone) (19 November 1872 – 10 February 1950). Spedden was an American heiress who survived the sinking of the ""Titanic"", and her account of her family's trip and the eventual disaster, written as a tale to amuse her seven-year-old son, was published about 45 years after her death. The story is told from the point of view of a stuffed bear. Spedden was born in Morristown, New Jersey and lived with her husband Frederic and son Douglas in Tuxedo Park, New"
"Me to You Bears Me to You Bears (also known as Tatty Teddies) is the brand name of a collection of teddy bears made by the Carte Blanche Greetings Ltd. They are often found in Clinton Cards. They were first created in 1987 and appeared in their current guise in 1995. A number of products are available related to Tatty Teddy including plush toys, figurines, cards, mugs, and wedding accessories. The beginnings of Me to You started in 1987 when Carte Blanche Greetings chairman and Founder, Stephen Haines, approached Mike Payne to create a group of 'cute' characters to appear"
"Luna the Wolf. The character is not available to buy anywhere in the world. Me to You Bears Me to You Bears (also known as Tatty Teddies) is the brand name of a collection of teddy bears made by the Carte Blanche Greetings Ltd. They are often found in Clinton Cards. They were first created in 1987 and appeared in their current guise in 1995. A number of products are available related to Tatty Teddy including plush toys, figurines, cards, mugs, and wedding accessories. The beginnings of Me to You started in 1987 when Carte Blanche Greetings chairman and Founder,"
"nameless teddy bear. As the current Duffy story goes, Minnie Mouse hand sewed Duffy for Mickey Mouse as he was packing for a long voyage at sea and presented him in a duffel bag, hence his name. Duffy the Disney Bear Duffy the Disney Bear is a Disney parks stuffed bear that can be found at the Tokyo Disney Resort, Hong Kong Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, and formerly at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Park in California, and Walt Disney World in Florida. Duffy has two Mickey Mouse features, similar shaped face and hip Mickey birthmark. Duffy is unique among Disney"
"and Tsimshian people of the Northwest Coast, mankind first learned to respect bears when a girl married the son of a black bear chieftain. In Kwakiutl mythology, American black and brown bears became enemies when Grizzly Bear Woman killed Black Bear Woman for being lazy. Black Bear Woman's children, in turn, killed Grizzly Bear Woman's children. The Navajo believed that the Big Black Bear was chief among the bears of the four directions surrounding Sun's house and would pray to it in order to be granted its protection during raids. Morris Michtom, the creator of the teddy bear, was inspired"
"with her ""celebrity"" teddy bear Teddy Tedaloo. The series follows the (mis)adventures of protagonist Thelonious T. Bear, a Mini-Cooper driving photojournalist bear from England who must co-exist in the human world. The novels are set in various locations around the world and feature a cast of quirky characters. The books include: Mitzi Szereto Mitzi Szereto is a British author, blogger, and web TV entrepreneur. She has written novels and short stories, edited fiction and non-fiction anthologies, has her own blog of humorous personal essays ""Errant Ramblings: Mitzi Szereto's Weblog"", and is the creator/presenter of ""Mitzi TV,"" a Web TV channel"
"given movable joints and a large shipment of toys had been sent to a New York showroom, but there was not much interest in the plush toy bears that were displayed there. In March 1903 Richard Steiff took jointed soft toy bears to a spring fair in Leipzig and they caught the eye of an American buyer, who ordered 3000. The Steiff bear went on to become the most famous and sought after make of teddy bears growing from one woman's determination to overcome disabilities and to create a business based on her needlework skills. Maragarete Steiff died on 9"
"Teddybjörnen Fredriksson ""Teddybjörnen Fredriksson"" (""Fredriksson, the Teddy bear"") is a Swedish children's song by Lasse Berghagen who wrote it in 1969 to his 3-year-old daughter Malin. It's one of Berghagen's most famous songs. Many Swedish schools and pre-schools sing it and has been voted as the most popular children's song. This song is about a person whose father gave him a teddy bear as birthday present when he was 4 years old and when he was married and got a 4-year-old daughter, he gave her a teddy bear. This song made Berghagen famous for children, and the real ""Teddy bear"
"died in 1939 at the age of 72 in Jackson, Michigan, United States. Richard Steiff Richard Steiff (February 7, 1877 – March 30, 1939) was a German designer, known for helping create the teddy bear. Steiff was born in Giengen, and entered his aunt Margarete's toymaking enterprise in 1897. While attending the School of Arts and Crafts (""Kunstgewerbeschule"") in Stuttgart, he would regularly visit the nearby Nill'scher Zoo (closed 1906) and spend much of his time drawing the residents of the bear enclosure. His sketches of the bears were incorporated into the prototype of the toy bear he created in"
"Holt Collier Holt Collier (c. 1848 – August 1, 1936) was a noted African-American Confederate scout, bear hunter and sportsman. While leading a hunt for U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt in November 1902, Collier unwittingly set the stage for the event that originated Roosevelt's nickname, ""Teddy Bear."" Collier was born circa 1848 as a slave in Mississippi and was the third generation to serve the Hinds family on Plum Ridge Plantation, built by General Thomas Hinds, who was a veteran of the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. At the request of General Andrew Jackson, Hinds had surveyed central Mississippi and"
"Judy Garland in ""The Wizard Of Oz"", and the original Teddy Bear that was named after President Theodore Roosevelt. In 2016, the Smithsonian's Air & Space museum curators restored the large model ""Enterprise"" from the original """" TV series. The following is a list of Smithsonian research centers, with their affiliated museum in parentheses: Also of note is the Smithsonian Museum Support Center (MSC), located in Silver Hill, Maryland (Suitland), which is the principal off-site conservation and collections facility for multiple Smithsonian museums, primarily the National Museum of Natural History. The MSC was dedicated in May 1983. The MSC covers"