Eric, Las Vegas, Nevada

If you send a picture to Disney.archives@disney.com, the archivists may be able to help.  Perhaps it was a figurine being sold in the park in 1977.

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Tim, Tallahassee, Florida

There is no online archive, and no branch of the Walt Disney Archives in Orlando. The Orlando Public Library has a very large Disney collection, part of it supplied by the Walt Disney Archives.

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Karen, New Orleans, Louisiana

For an appraisal, you would need to go to a dealer who handles that type of memorabilia.  Perhaps a local museum would like the collection.

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Stacy (Menu Archivist Los Angeles Public Library), Los Angeles, California

The two menus you have are probably from the 1940s. Unfortunately, they are undated.

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Jackie, Baldwinsville, New York

One of the lithographs sold on eBay for $250, but a number of others listed for lower prices did not sell.

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Templeton, Louisville, Kentucky

After the first appearance of Dippy Dawg in Mickey’s Revue (1932), the staff at the Disney Studio felt that he would be a good character to develop. As he was used in more cartoons, he became popular with movie audiences. It was not just the character that was notable, but the distinctive laugh and voice …

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Kay, Southport, North Carolina

This Mickey and Minnie cookie jar is known as a Turnabout, and it was made by Leeds China Co. of Chicago. They were licensed by Disney from 1944 to 1954, so the cookie jar would have been made during that period. On most of these cookie jars that I have seen, most of the paint …

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Steven, Brandon, Florida

This would have been Russell Schroeder, who was a character artist at Walt Disney World. I inquired of him, and he recalls being in Boston doing drawings in the late 1970s, but at a department store downtown, not the Burlington Mall. This was a promotional tour to bring a bit of Disney to people around …

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