"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"
"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"
"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 –"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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."
"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"
"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,"
"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,"
"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"
"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"
"(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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"I had to say? I said ""Bless Daddy,"" so what can it be? Oh! Now I remember it. God bless Me."" </poem> A. A. Milne Alan Alexander Milne (; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was a British author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne served in both World Wars, joining the British Army in World War I, and was a captain of the British Home Guard in World War"
"an identical design, except for a peace symbol embroidered on the fabric. Princess the Bear was a Beanie Baby bear that was made in the memory of Princess Diana, who was killed on August 31, 1997. Ty, Inc. announced the release of the collectible on October 29, 1997. Its purpose was to raise money for Diana's favorite charities. Originally, only 12 units were shipped to each authorized Ty retailer. At this time, these were purchased quickly and sold on the second-hand market for hundreds of dollars apiece. But within months, they were shipped en masse, the market became flooded with"
"in 1880. Steiff used new technology developed for upholstery to make their stuffed toys. In 1892, the Ithaca Kitty became one of the first mass-produced stuffed animal toys in the United States. In 1903 Richard Steiff designed a soft bear that differed from earlier traditional rag dolls, because it was made of plush furlike fabric. At the same time in the USA, Morris Michtom created the first teddy bear, after being inspired by a drawing of Theodore ""Teddy"" Roosevelt with a bear cub. The character Peter Rabbit from English author Beatrix Potter was the first stuffed toy to be patented,"
"member of his party eventually killed it with a knife. The ""Washington Post"" and other newspapers publicized Roosevelt's compassion for the animal, and an editorial cartoon of the event by Clifford Berryman titled ""Drawing the line in Mississippi"" which erroneously depicted the bear as a cub, eventually gave rise to the ""Teddy Bear"" phenomenon and the president's nickname. Teddy Roosevelt was greatly impressed with Collier's abilities and presented him with a Winchester rifle. He served again as Roosevelt's tracker during a Louisiana bear hunt of 1907. Holt Collier National Wildlife Refuge in Mississippi is named in his honor. He died"
"Winnipeg (bear) Winnipeg, or Winnie, (1914 – 12 May 1934) was the name given to a female black bear that lived at London Zoo from 1915 until her death in 1934. Rescued by cavalry veterinarian Harry Colebourn, Winnie is best-remembered for inspiring A. A. Milne's character, Winnie-the-Pooh. Upon the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Lt. Harry Colebourn of The Fort Garry Horse, a Canadian cavalry regiment, volunteered his service. On 24 August, while en route to Valcartier to report to the Canadian Army Veterinary Corps (CAVC) as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he purchased a young"
"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"
"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"
"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,"
"the back of an album cover, was one of the band's many iconic images. The bear was supposedly ""born"" the date that Jerry died (August 9, 1995). The fast retirement for this Beanie Baby was due to an alleged lawsuit that the Garcia family filed against the Ty company, claiming that the name ""Garcia"" was used without permission from the family. In cooperation with the lawsuit, Garcia was retired and a similar bear named Peace was released. Peace has a peace sign, while Garcia does not. The bright colors on Garcia the bear made him one of the most popular"
"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"
"overwhelming success of the mail order operation, a new company — Spiegel, May, Stern, and Company — was formed, allowing the Spiegel House Furnishings Company to devote its limited resources to conventional retailing, rather than assume the debts associated with building up the mail order segment. Arthur was named President of the new company. In 1909 Spiegel introduced the teddy bear to the American consumer, for the first time nationwide, by offering it in its mail order catalog. The Ideal Toy Company partnered with Spiegel to launch this successful toy venture, and Spiegel continues to give its staff teddy bears"
"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"