Author: Bill Bruegman
Publisher: Toy Scouts Incorporated
ISBN: 9780963263742
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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Author: William R. Bruegman
Publisher: Toy Scouts Incorporated
ISBN: 9780963263766
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Author: John A. Clark
Publisher: L-W
ISBN: 9780895380302
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 137

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Author: Marc Hudgeons
Publisher: House of Collectibles
ISBN: 0375721673
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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Covering every single national note issued from 1861 to the present, including Confederate currency, a completely illustrated price guide to U.S. currency includes more than six thousand updated prices, along with tips on trading and collecting and a glossary of monetary terms. Original.

Author: Gary Cross
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190288868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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The twentieth century was, by any reckoning, the age of the child in America. Today, we pay homage at the altar of childhood, heaping endless goods on the young, reveling in memories of a more innocent time, and finding solace in the softly backlit memories of our earliest years. We are, the proclamation goes, just big kids at heart. And, accordingly, we delight in prolonging and inflating the childhood experiences of our offspring. In images of the naughty but nice Buster Brown and the coquettish but sweet Shirley Temple, Americans at mid-century offered up a fantastic world of treats, toys, and stories, creating a new image of the child as "cute." Holidays such as Christmas and Halloween became blockbuster affairs, vehicles to fuel the bedazzled and wondrous innocence of the adorable child. All this, Gary Cross illustrates, reflected the preoccupations of a more gentle and affluent culture, but it also served to liberate adults from their rational and often tedious worlds of work and responsibility. But trouble soon entered paradise. The "cute" turned into "cool" as children, following their parental example, embraced the gift of fantasy and unrestrained desire to rebel against the saccharine excesses of wondrous innocence in deliberate pursuit of the anti-cute. Movies, comic books, and video games beckoned to children with the allures of an often violent, sexualized, and increasingly harsh worldview. Unwitting and resistant accomplices to this commercial transformation of childhood, adults sought-over and over again, in repeated and predictable cycles-to rein in these threats in a largely futile jeremiad to preserve the old order. Thus, the cute child-deliberately manufactured and cultivated--has ironically fostered a profoundly troubled ambivalence toward youth and child rearing today. Expertly weaving his way through the cultural artifacts, commercial currents, and parenting anxieties of the previous century, Gary Cross offers a vibrant and entirely fresh portrait of the forces that have defined American childhood.

Author: Marc Hudgeons
Publisher: House of Collectibles
ISBN: 0375721711
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Covering every single national note issued from 1861 to the present, including Confederate currency, a completely illustrated price guide to U.S. currency includes more than six thousand updated prices, along with tips on trading and collecting and a glossary of monetary terms. Original.

Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 648

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Author: Bill Bruegman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963263704
Category : Character toys
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Author: Collector Books
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780891454717
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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The #1 bestselling book on antiques and collectibles, this popular guide includes more than 50,000 items, with histories and background information on every subject. Hundreds of original photographs.

Author: Jo Fredell Higgins
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467100358
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Joseph G. Stolp settled in Aurora on June 12, 1837, when there were 33 residents in the pioneer village. Stolp's vision helped shape the city's destiny. The Aurora Electric Light and Power Company used 2,000-candlepower electric lamps for the first streetlights in 1881. Today, the "City of Lights" is home to 200,000 residents and a diverse population with 42 percent of Hispanic heritage. The character of her people made Aurora an enterprising city. Notable residents include Maud Powell, violin virtuoso, and Harry C. Murphy, president of the Burlington Railroad. Profiles of Greek immigrant George Andrews and Aurora-born artist Wendell Minor, as well as Polish leader Bruno Bartoszek, color these pages with biographies of greatness. Astute business leaders include Robert Bonifas, Ken Nagel, Louis Leonardi, and Frank C. Schaefer. Dr. Stephanie Pace Marshall, Dr. Christine Sobek, and Dick Schindel give testament to adroit educational leadership. Legendary Locals of Aurora chronicles how the city's history has been blessed with noble and innovative leaders.