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Olmec Toys, Inc. collection
- Title
- Olmec Toys, Inc. collection, 1985-1995.
- Author
- Olmec Toys, Inc.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 783 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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- Description
- 1 folder.
- Summary
- The Olmec Toys, Inc. Collection consists primarily of printed material acquired by one of its investors. Included are notices to shareholders about expansion of the product line and the purchasing of shares, minutes of meetings, an auditor's report, product catalogs, a sample comic book that was packed inside each box, and photographs of the original two action figures.
- Subjects
- Source (note)
- Eugenia Evans Clarke
- Location of Other Archival Materials (note)
- New York Public Library, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, N.Y. 10037
- Biography (note)
- Founded in 1985 by Yla Eason, Olmec Toys, Inc. was the largest minority-owned toy company in the United States. It also had the industry's largest selection of black and Hispanic toys. By 1995 the product line extended to a variety of boy action figures, toys and dolls that included African-American, Hispanic and Asian baby dolls, toddler dolls and fashion dolls. Olmec coined the phrase "ethnically correct," referring to the doll's appropriate color as well as its sculpted facial features to accurately represent each doll's ethnicity. In 1994 Olmec had its product line in many major retail stores throughout the country, but it went bankrupt within several years.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 783
- OCLC
- 252083900
- Author
- Olmec Toys, Inc.
- Title
- Olmec Toys, Inc. collection, 1985-1995.
- Biography
- Founded in 1985 by Yla Eason, Olmec Toys, Inc. was the largest minority-owned toy company in the United States. It also had the industry's largest selection of black and Hispanic toys. By 1995 the product line extended to a variety of boy action figures, toys and dolls that included African-American, Hispanic and Asian baby dolls, toddler dolls and fashion dolls. Olmec coined the phrase "ethnically correct," referring to the doll's appropriate color as well as its sculpted facial features to accurately represent each doll's ethnicity. In 1994 Olmec had its product line in many major retail stores throughout the country, but it went bankrupt within several years.
- Location of Other Archival Materials
- Chiz Schultz papers: Dean, Kenneth - "The Adventures of Sun Man and the Sun People, Box 6, Folder 17 ; Gordon, Gloria - "Rainbow People" - outline, Box 8, Folder 10; printed matter, Box 8, Folder 11; Also located at; New York Public Library, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, N.Y. 10037
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- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 783