It’s a story involving President Theodore Roosevelt, a bear hunt, a political cartoon, and a candy shop owner in New York..

When avid hunter Teddy Roosevelt wanted to hunt an American black bear, his African American guide was one of Mississippi’s most storied hunters.

President Theodore Roosevelt, often known as Teddy, went on a bear hunting trip near Onward, Mississippi, in November 1902 with a group of notables.

The Library of Congress' photographic reproduction of Clifford Kennedy Berryman's political cartoon in the Washington Post satirizing President Theodore Roosevelt's purported refusal to shoot a ...

The first "Teddy bear" was put on sale on this day in history, Feb. 15, 1903. Named after President Theodore Roosevelt, the stuffed bear was first sold by Morris Michtom, a Brooklyn, New York ...

The popularity of the bear toy inspired John Walter Bratton to compose the melody “The Teddy Bears’ Picnic” in 1907, while Roosevelt was still in office. Jimmy Kennedy added lyrics in 1932.

While Rose had long made toys and stuffed animals for the store, located at 404 Tompkins Avenue, the revolutionary bear design was inspired by a political cartoon published in the Washington Post ...

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That decision, memorialized in a political cartoon, led a New York toymaker to create a stuffed bear and name it “Teddy’s Bear,” which later became known as the teddy bear.

The origins of the teddy bear involve President Theodore Roosevelt, a bear hunt, a political cartoon, and the owner of a candy shop in New York.