Lindsay's Toy Factory Ltd records, artwork and designs, photographs, realia, 1934-2000s
Lindsay's Toy Factory Ltd records, artwork and designs, photographs, realia, 1934-2000s
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1934-2000s
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Fonds
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Copyright status : In copyright - This collection has multiple has multiple rights owners
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The collection offers a detailed insight into the shaping of products, the domination of American popular culture in the-post war years, a record of the Americanization of Australian childhood in this period, and examples of the firm’s outreach and promotion in the expansionist years of the 1950s to 1970s. Documentation is also present of the firm’...
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Lindsay's Toy Factory Ltd records, artwork and designs, photographs, realia, 1934-2000s
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Purchased from Lindsays' Leichhardt, 2014
Administrative / Biographical history
A.L. Lindsay & Co. was established by Albert Leslie Lindsay (1882-1957), who during the 1920s started producing Indian head dresses and children’s leather cowboy suits. By 1936 the Lindsay toy factory, at 90-94 Parramatta Road in Stanmore, was also producing Indian suits, cowboy and cowgirl hats and playsuits, and a range of calico tents.
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Record Identifier
1l4dLbJ1
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1l4dLbJ1
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1184341
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