Morris Michtom

A 1902 political cartoon in The Washington Post spawned the teddy bear name.

Morris Michtom (1870 – 21 ya sanza ya nsambo 1938)[1][2] azalaki moto ya mombongo mpe mokeli oyo abotamaki na Russie oyo, elongo na mwasi na ye Rose, bazwaki likanisi ya ours ya peluche na 1902[3] pene na ntango moko na Richard Steiff na Alémani. Babandisaki Ideal Novelty and Toy Company oyo, nsima ya liwa ya Michtom, ekómaki kompanyi oyo eleki monene oyo esalaka bana-popi na États-Unis.

Michtom abotamaki na libota moko ya Boyúda mpe akendaki kofanda na New York na 1887.[4][3] Azalaki kotɛka bonbon na magazini na ye na 404 Tompkins Avenue na Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn na moi[5] mpe azalaki kosala banyama ya peluche elongo na mwasi na ye Rose na butu.

Urse ya peluche epemamaki na dessin animé moko ya Clifford K. Berryman, mosali ya dessin animé oyo azwaki Prix Pulitzer, oyo elakisaki prezida ya Amerika Theodore Roosevelt —oyo babengaka mingi "Teddy" —azali na mawa mpo na ours na nsuka ya mobembo moko ya koluka banyama oyo elongaki te na Mississippi na 1902. Michtom amonaki dessin mpe asali mwana ya ours ya peluche ya moke oyo atindaki na Roosevelt. Michtom atie ours ya peluche na fenêtre ya magasin na panneau "Urse ya Peluche." Nsima ya kosala ours na 1902, koteka ba ours yango esalemaki nokinoki mpenza na boye ete na 1907 Michtom asalaki kompanyi moko (Ideal Novelty and Toy Company).[6]

Soki lelo oyo bana mingi bazali na ba ours de peluche minene (ours en peluche géant), tozali na nyongo yango mingimingi epai ya Morris Micht

Michtom akufaki na mokolo ya 21 Yuli 1938 ntango azalaki na mbula 68.

  1. (en) Stephanie Bernardo Johns, The ethnic almanac, Doubleday,‎ (ISBN 978-0-385-14143-7, lire en ligne), p. 260
  2. (en) The Rubber age, Palmerton Pub. Co.,‎ (lire en ligne)
  3. 3,0 et 3,1 "Rose and Morris Michtom and the Invention of the Teddy Bear". American Jewish Historical Society. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Michtoms.html. 
  4. (en) Lawrence J. Epstein, At the Edge of a Dream: The Story of Jewish Immigrants on New York's Lower East Side, 1880-1920,‎ 2007 (ISBN 9780787986223, lire en ligne), p. 138
  5. SAVE BEDFORD STUYVESANT: The Teddy Bear was born in Bedford Stuyvesant. Savebedfordstuyvesant.blogspot.com (2009-04-02). Retrieved on 2011-10-01.
  6. True story of the Teddy Bear by The Theodore Roosevelt Association. Theodoreroosevelt.org. Retrieved on 2011-10-01.