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[Page from Playthings Magazine illus. dolls: between 1910 and 1929] – Antique Wall Art

[Page from Playthings Magazine illus. dolls: between 1910 and 1929] — historic print
[Page from Playthings Magazine illus. dolls: between 1910 and 1929]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Page from Playthings Magazine illus. dolls: between 1910 and 1929] comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Page from Playthings Magazine illus. dolls: between 1910 and 1929]

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A single magazine page of doll illustrations, taken from *Playthings*, makes this item distinct. The trade periodical was aimed at toy retailers and buyers rather than children, so the drawings were meant to show merchants what stock was available. The caption card gives only a span of years, between 1910 and 1929, with no exact date. Across those decades, American doll making shifted from hand-finished porcelain and cloth toys toward mass-produced composition and celluloid figures, and pages like this one record that commercial change as it was presented to the trade.

Medium1 item.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,101 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126948

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