CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Northern Ohio Doll and Bear Show is scheduled for Sunday at the Best Western Plus, 15471 Royalton Road in Strongsville, near Interstate 71. Early birds are welcome at 9 a.m. for ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Toledo Doll and Bear Show and Sale takes place at the Rossford Sports Complex, 10020 S. Compass Drive in Rossford, Ohio, (off the Ohio Turnpike) from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. April ...

Long before the bodacious Barbie was born into toyland in 1959, little girls had access to idealized feminine images via the movie star paper doll, where not only the glamour girls, but even the most ...

Ursula Mertz knows a lot about dolls, so don’t tell her they’re nothing but a toy. “The enjoyment I get out of them is 50 percent the dolls themselves, and the other 50 percent is their history,” said ...

EUREKA — It all started when the sophisticated big city reporter Brenda Starr caught Betty Wettstein’s eye. Growing up in rural Washington during the Great Depression, 8-year-old Betty had never seen ...

Plastic Barbies didn't get an invitation. Madame Alexander collectibles have no business here. Cabbage Patch Kids will go orphaned another week. The approximately 150 conventioneers at the National ...