Did you know Tupperware produced more than just food-storage containers?!? Before familiar brands like Connex and LEGO became widely recognized, Tupperware introduced its own line of durable, colorful plastic toys in 1965. These sets used snap-together plastic tiles that attached to boards, allowing children to create mosaic art and themed designs. Marketed alongside kitchenware and other household products, these innovative toys appealed to both parents […]
It takes a special photographer willing to risk life and limb for that perfect shot, and the Osceola County Historical Society has had the pleasure of sharing and preserving artifacts from two notable ones. Rodeo photographer, Ralph R. Doubleday and photojournalist Richard J. Shepherd. Ralph Russell Doubleday (1881 – 1958) was an American rodeo photographer widely regarded as the “undisputed World’s Champion Rodeo Photographer” (Butler). […]
Joe Tracy was born in St. Cloud, but more specifically with ties to the old sawmill town of Holopaw. Supposedly, a childhood buddy was the infamous John Ashley. Tracy and Ashley started out as pals, hunting, fishing, and drinking together. Locals described Tracy as “an outgoing guy with a generous nature and perpetual smile” (Griffin, 1986). But there was another side to Tracy, a Jekyll […]
Catherine Belle Weaver was born on September 2, 1904 in Lafayette, Indiana, and later attended Purdue University, following in the footsteps of her older brother Paul. Her father, William Otis Weaver, married her mother, Anna Mary Neff on June 10, 1896; it was her father’s second marriage. Together, Weaver and Neff grandparents had 17 children and 44 grandchildren, Catherine wrote “in Lafayette I never lacked […]