He had designed a stuffed toy bear in 1902, before the teddy bear became associated with Roosevelt. “But they kept at me to make the ‘Billy Possum’ and then nobody wanted it.” The company ...

Taking inspiration from the depiction of the black bear in Berryman’s cartoon, the Michtoms created a stuffed bear. she put it in the window of the family candy shop. “Teddy’s Bear” was an ...