Years ago, paper dolls and toys by Raphael Tuck and Sons were all the rage. Tuck was born in Prussia in 1821 and married Ernestine Lissner in 1848. They had seven children, all born in their native ...
Ruth Handler is the woman who thought up and invented the ... Ruth noticed that she primarily played with baby and paper ...
Created in 1959 by Ruth Handler, co-founder of Mattel with her husband Elliot Handler, Barbie was inspired by “watching their daughter play with make-believe paper dolls of adult women”.