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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Acknowledgments
  • Illustrations
  • The Paper Doll
  • Collectible, Affordable, Makeable
  • I. From the Antique:
    • Beginnings: Pantins, English Dolls, and Fashions
    • Toy Books
    • Boxed, Elegant, and Imported 1822-1850
    • Midcentury: The American Paper Doll
    • Imported 1850-1870
    • Handmade - Homemade
    • The Gilded Age 1870-1900
  • II. Nostalgia:
    • The Turn of the Century 1910-1920
    • The Twenties
    • The Stylish Thirties
    • The Forties
    • The Fifties
    • The Sixties
    • The Seventies
    • Betsy and Barbie
  • III. Now:
    • The Eighties
  • Appendix A: Paper Doll Collections
  • Appendix B: Books and Newsletters
  • Appendix C: Preservation, Framing, and Storage
  • Appendix D: Paper Doll Print Terminology
  • Appendix E: Paper Doll Sources
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

Title: The Paper Doll: A Collector's Guide with Prices
Author: Barbara Chaney Ferguson
Publication Date: TPB:1982
Publisher: Wallace-Homestead, Des Moines, IA
Page Count: 152
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 0870694014

SUMMARY- This is an expansion of the talks that Ms. Ferguson used to give to women's groups in the Chicago area. She clearly loves her subject and gives a lot of wonderful historical information and evolution of the paper doll that is both entertaining and illuminating. I loved reading this book for its own sake. It didn't hurt that she then ended it with a great bibliography of books and periodicals to expand my reading list. This was a great find that I picked up on a whim - really happy I did so.



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