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Brightshaupt Devices
Thursday, October 18th, 2007In 1921, Aemelia Brightshaupt, a Swiss immigrant, began to build a small toy for her numerous grandchildren, most of whom resided more or less under their various parents’ supervision in prodigious rooms on the Upper East Side. Ambrose Brightshaupt’s success as a financier in the 1890s boom had allowed him and his wife to purchase [...]
