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One of the most popular and long lived fad items of all time, the Kewpie Doll had its roots in the Ladies' Home Journal magazine, where an author, Rose O'Neil, wrote children's poems and used illustrations of characters which would become Kewpies. The year was 1909, and the cartoon drawings would quickly evolve into paper doll versions and then into unglazed ceramic items which would cause them to soar in popularity. Soon an overwhelming demand would call for the production of kewpie inkwells, saltshakers, perfume bottles, earrings, bracelets and pipe tobacco accessories.

Kewpie DollKewpie Dolls (which were named in honor of Cupid) were big cheeked, wide-eyed, round tummied little creatures which immediately appealed to children. Initially Ms. O'Neil developed a series of the dolls, each with their own names and personalities and four years after their creation, more five million had been sold. With the coming of World War I, Ms. O'Neil stopped writing stories about Kewpies but brought them back in 1925. In 1930, the dolls regained popularity, not as the cute national treasure they had been but instead as giveaways at carnivals and festivals.

 
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