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Paper Dolls Go Hollywood
In the early 1900s, the budding movie industry creatively used publicity to cement its foothold in the entertainment world. One easy marketing method was to create paper dolls of leading actors and actresses that were reproduced in popular magazines. This … Continue reading
Paper Dolls and the Cycling Craze
The 1890s was a momentous decade for women. Not only was the suffragette movement gaining worldwide momentum with New Zealand and South Australia enfranchising women, but sea changes in fashion also transformed the daily lives of women. Despite dress reform … Continue reading
Artists’ Handmade Paper Dolls
One day I decided to hunt our Waldron Collection for handmade paper dolls by known or professional women artists. My interest was piqued after using illustrator Frances Brundage’s paper dolls from the 1890s set “Children from Many Lands,” sold by … Continue reading
Posted in Ephemera, Library, Uncategorized
Tagged ephemera, paper dolls, Winterthur Library, Winterthur Museum Garden & Library
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The History of Little Paper Dolls
It may seem incongruous that a renowned research library for the study of American decorative arts has an outstanding collection of paper dolls. This extensive and greatly used collection was donated in the 1970s and 1980s by Maxine Waldron, art … Continue reading
The Brownie Empire of Palmer Cox
By Jeanne Solensky, librarian in the Joseph Downs Collection & Manuscripts & Printed Ephemera One of the joys of my job is “scavenging”—searching through manuscript and ephemera collections to find related items after happening upon one that grabs my fancy. … Continue reading
Posted in Ephemera, Library
Tagged Brownie Camera, brownies, marketing, Palmer Cox, paper dolls
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