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March 1959.
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Ruth and Elliott Handler founded the Mattel Co. in the 1940s. They had two children, Barbara and Kenneth. Ruth noted that Barbara played with paper dolls that looked like adults,
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It was invented when the creator Ruth Handler and her daughter who were on vacation in the Swiss in 1956 saw a doll dressed in ski clothes.So it was decided they would make their
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