Wartime Toys

Toy manufacturers sent metal and rubber used in the making of toys to the government during the war. The government used these materials to make military equipment like jeep tires, life rafts, airplane parts, and gas masks. Toy manufacturers improvised and made toys of cardboard and wood. Many toys had a patriotic or wartime theme.

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Don Schwandt's toy "Conqueror" battleship and sea mine, circa 1942
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Don Schwandt's toy "Sparkies" airplane pilot training cockpit, circa 1941
OCHS # 2002.18.1 a,b

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Don Schwandt's toy jeep, howitzer, soldier, and tank, circa 1942
OCHS #s 2002.18.4; 2002.18.5a; 2002.18.6;
Loan from Don Schwandt