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Maxine - a very talented artist and she designed a toddler doll in the likeness
of her own child, Drienne - showed her Aunt Violet the doll. Violet was
enchanted with the doll and offered to dress and market the doll. They took the
toddler doll to New York City annual Toy Fair. It was an instant hit.
Back home, Violet hired workers to make this doll which had become known as
Terri Lee. There was no designated place for the manufacture of this doll. This
became a true cottage industry.
Montgomery Ward featured Terri Lee in their catalog that year and 8,000
composition
Terri Lees were sold. They were off to a flying start with no
preliminaries or experience. The success was phenomenal. The factory moved into
larger quarters and hired the Tip-Top Company of Omaha to make the dolls in
plastic.
Violet was constantly making improvements on the dolls. This doll, originally
made of composition , was being made of plastic early in 1947.
The factory grew and was moved several times and other dolls created from the Terri Lee molds were Nanook, Terri's Eskimo friend,
Guadeloupe or Claypso, her Hispanic friend, her brother Jerri Lee, and Gene
Autry.
A 10” walking version of Terri was introduced in November, 1955. A year later,
Tiny Jerri was introduced. A talking version of Terri consisted of a record and
record player with a jack hooked up to Terri and the record player. There were a
number of 45 RPM records and 33RPM records made staring the real Terri Lee.
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