The exhibit features toy cars, toy soldiers and others from the 1940s
LANSING (AP) -- Toys with ties to Michigan, such as a Daisy BB gun and Kellogg's Pep collector buttons, are on display at the Michigan Historical Museum. The collection features toy cars, toy soldiers, a Lone Ranger hat, a Superman Krypto-Raygun and more from the 1940s.
The toys belonged to Joe Russell Sutter, who spent his childhood in Wakefield in the Upper Peninsula. Many of his toys were made in Michigan by companies such as Wyandotte Toys and the Daisy Manufacturing Co. of Plymouth.
Sutter joined the Navy and practiced law in San Diego before passing away in 1999. His wife donated her late husband's entire collection to the museum this year.
The mini-exhibit on the museum's second floor can be visited through Jan. 8.
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