Archive for December, 2013

3rd December
2013
written by Richard
Children await the opening of a new toy library. National Archives.

Children await the opening of a new toy library. National Archives.

Christmas day every day in San Diego. Toys every day for children to whom the real Christmas has never meant a thing. That is the purpose of San Diego toy loan libraries. –San Diego Union, August 13, 1939.

A federal government success story: toy libraries for children during the Great Depression. The Toy Loan Libraries.