This Week In History: On March 9, 1959, the Barbie doll made her first appearance at the American Toy Fair in New York City. The doll by Matell, Inc. has remained popular around the world ever since.

Barbie has come a long way in her many years on shelves and in the hands of girls around the world. First introduced to the world on March 9, 1959, Barbie was created to be a woman with a plethora ...

Brush up on the history of a cultural phenomenon and the other dolls that inhabited Barbie's universe. Introduced at New York's American Toy Fair in 1959, the first Barbie doll quickly won the ...

In the teaser trailer for Greta Gerwig's Barbie, Robbie rocks a familiar get-up for fans of her character — the classic swimsuit first seen on the 1959 doll. Standing in the iconic one-piece ...

Ruth Handler is best known for inventing the Barbie doll in 1959 and serving as the first president of Mattel, a company she co-founded with her husband Elliot Handler, from 1945 to 1973.

Since her debut in 1959, Barbie has symbolized all that ... It also released the first of a series of international dolls that year. The company had its first major fashion partnership when ...

Since the first Barbie doll was released in 1959, the toy has had a legion of followers. They admire her beauty, poise and propensity for holding down numerous jobs.One Knoxville woman ...

1959. When the first Black Barbie debuted in 1980, Larson said she had a hard time finding the doll in stores. "I said to myself, ‘My little girl is never going to have that, she’s going to ...

The first Barbie doll, which sold for just $3 when it hit ... and Heritage Auctions have sold the original 1959 Barbie for varying prices, with the highest recorded auction sale topping out ...

Barbie is wearing the black-and-white swimsuit from her very first doll in 1959. The woman on the bench The old woman Barbie encounters at a bus stop is played by costume designer Ann Roth ...