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Toy Boom! Toys from the 1950s and '60s Bits of History

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From 1946 to 1964, the American birth rate soared. A new child-focused culture emerged alongside a prosperous economy, and the rapid growth of a new medium: television. Katie Edwards, the museum's curator of popular culture, describes how toys of those baby boomers reflected, not just a response to the era’s circumstances, but also the angst, energy, creativity, change, and uncertainties of American society and culture at the time.

From 1946 to 1964, the American birth rate soared. A new child-focused culture emerged alongside a prosperous economy, and the rapid growth of a new medium: television. Katie Edwards, the museum's curator of popular culture, describes how toys of those baby boomers reflected, not just a response to the era’s circumstances, but also the angst, energy, creativity, change, and uncertainties of American society and culture at the time.

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