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Fisher-Price, Inc. is an American company that produces educational toys for infants, toddlers and preschoolers, headquartered in East Aurora, New York. It was founded in 1930 during the Great Depression by Herman Fisher, Irving Price, Helen Schelle and Margaret Evans Price. Fisher-Price has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Mattel since 1993.
With her husband, Irving Price, and Herman Fisher, she co-founded Fisher-Price Toys in 1930. Margaret Evans was a children's book illustrator and artist . She became the first Art Director of Fisher-Price and designed push-pull toys for the opening line, based on characters from her children's books.
View-Master was assigned to Mattel's preschool division and is now marketed under the Fisher-Price imprint, with a continued emphasis on children's content. In 1998, during the purchase of the Tyco-owned plant by Mattel , the EPA investigated the View-Master factory supply well for the toxic chemical trichloroethylene (TCE).
Little People is a toy brand for children ages 6–36 months and to ages 3 and up, originally produced by Fisher-Price, Inc. in the 1960s as the Play Family People. The current product line consists of playsets, mini-sets and accessories, books, CDs, and DVDs focusing on various configurations of 5 characters named Eddie, Tessa, Mia, Koby, and ...
Line engraving is a term for engraved images printed on paper to be used as prints or illustrations. The term is mainly used in connection with 18th- or 19th-century commercial illustrations for magazines and books or reproductions of paintings .
Examples of computer clip art, from Openclipart. Clip art (also clipart, clip-art) is a type of graphic art. Pieces are pre-made images used to illustrate any medium. Today, clip art is used extensively and comes in many forms, both electronic and printed. However, most clip art today is created, distributed, and used in a digital form.
Fisher was born in Brooklyn, New York City [1] [2] and began to draw at an early age. Both his father and his grandfather were artists. [2] Fisher spent much of his youth in San Francisco, and studied at the San Francisco Art Association. [2] In California he studied with Amédée Joullin. [1]