Throughout Nebraska's history, toys for boys have included vehicles, tools, toy guns, and games of skill.
From left, homemade wooden Spirit of Arizona plane, about 1935; tin airplane with a homemade wooden propeller, 1925-35; tiny wooden airplane from the 1949 French Merci (Thank You) Train; 1955 B-29 bomber; rubber tool kit made in Occupied Japan after World War II; Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars from the 1960s; 1930s tin wind-up car; 1950s cap pistols; leather belt with cartridge pouch and bayonet, similar to late-nineteenth-century U. S. Army equipment; and G. I. Joe action figure, about 1964.
Doll dressed as a Lincoln, Nebraska, baseball team player, about 1920
Museum 9153-008
