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Creative Playthings was an educational toy store and catalogue that was established by Frank and Theresa Caplan in 1945. The goal of Creative Playthings was to provide simple and beautifully designed toys to promote a child’s creativity and imagination.
Folk, Fantasy & Play catalog; Selected Creative Playthings catalogs: 1959, 1962, 1965, 1970. List of Creative Playthings objects in the collection.
By the 1950s, Creative Playthings had gained international recognition and expanded to become one of the most important manufacturers and suppliers of materials for early childhood education. [2] In 1975, Frank Caplan founded The Princeton Center for Infancy and Early Childhood.
The Caplan Collection of folk art and childhood artifacts is held by The Children's Museum of Indianapolis; in 1984 it was donated by Frank and Theresa Caplan, owners of the Creative Playthings toy company. The museum began accessioning the collection in January 1985.
Miller at the 1972 Nuremberg Toy Fair. Stephen Alan Miller (May 31, 1940 – December 27, 1993) was an American businessperson. He was a restaurateur, pedagogical expert, and creator, manufacturer, and distributor of educational and creative toys, a number of which were sold at the Museum of Modern Art Gift Shop.
Theresa Caplan (1913–2010) was an American twentieth-century scholar of early childhood development and a collector of worldwide toys.Working with her husband Frank, she wrote multiple acclaimed books and built a massive collection of toys that is now part of a significant museum.