Here’s some of what Arabella Grayson has learned about black paper dolls: Mid-1700s: Rich ladies in England and France make tiny paper dolls in their own images. 1810: Little Fanny, the first ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Collection consists of paper dolls dating from the 1800s-1998. The bulk of the paper dolls, however, date from the 1900s-1970s. Due to the Grepkes ...

The year was 1959 in Vigo County. An 8-year-old girl bounds excitedly toward the front door. The postman had just delivered the McCall’s magazine and she couldn’t wait to cut out the paper dolls ...

Dear Harry: I have six international bride dolls. I think they are plastic. They have moveable eyes and arms and measure about 81/2 inches high. Inside each box is a sheet of paper that pictures ...

WASHINGTON — A slip of the scissors and off comes a foot. A nick and there goes a finger. A wrong snip and a tab that would have held up her dress disappears. Paper dolls, fragile though they were, ...