Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-251) and index.
Contents
Dorothy's world: toys 100 years ago -- Machine-made toys -- Indoor toys and changing play -- Model kits -- Tournament toys and organized play -- Fad toys, marketing, and invention -- Toys that relive the past -- Tops -- Marbles -- Propellor toys -- Noisemakers I, II -- Hoops -- Dolls -- Shooters -- Blocks.
Summary
Considers how toys changed over the centuries in America as a rural society was gradually urbanized.
Four pictures in photo album number 2, page 31 are as follows: (1) Bruce Ryder as a preschooler sitting in grass with pet rabbit. (2) Bruce reaching for a cake with two candles on it (3) Bruce playing with an unknown toy. caption under it "A Budding Scientist" (4) Bruce and a friend both sitting by above referenced toy.
Page 32 of Bruce Ryder's Photo Album #2 has three pictures of Bruce and a cat close to the back porch of the Race Street Home. First picture he has the cat on a truck that he is sitting on also, Second picture he is standing next to the truck holding the cat and thee third picture he is sitting between two people, a man and a woman and holding the cat. This picture is entitled "After a Morning Ride."
Page 39 of Bruce Ryder's photo album number two, has three pictures of Bruce "Getting Ready for Easter." In the first one he is holding a rabbit, the second one has a riding truck with the rabbit in it and Bruce sitting next to it, and the third one Bruce is sitting on the truck and the rabbit is nowhere in sight.
Page 43 of Brucee Ryder's second photo album has four pictures with the caption "Month at Ocean City, 1927." All three pictures are of Bruce playing in the sand and surf.
