Paper Dolls | Make Paper Dolls
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Victoriana Magazine brings you Victorian Paper Dolls. Paper dolls have been a favourite toy for children for almost two centuries.
They first appeared in Paris during the 1700s. English paper dolls often included moral stories and booklets of virtues as part of the packaging. Prior to the 1880s, Victorian paper dolls were coloured by hand and were attached with tiny drops of bee’s wax. In 1854, Crosby Nichols and Company of Boston printed the first paper doll. Fanny Gray was packed in an elegantly lithograth box with six figures, a wooden base to stand the figures and a booklet of moral versus.
The first American book on doll making was published by Ann Cindya Fraundorf in 1856. Included were hand coloured plates of dolls and their costumes. This book was so popular that in 1857 it was followed by the book “Paper dolls, furniture and how to make it or how to spend a cheerful rainy day”. The American publication Gaudies Ladies book was the first magazine to print a paper doll grouping with outfits. The November 1859 issue included a page with six figures of boys and girls, plus a page of hand coloured costumes to cut out.
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