Paper doll with cut-out dresses and clothing outfits – Historic Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Paper doll with cut-out dresses and clothing outfits, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Paper doll with cut-out dresses and clothing outfits
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Paper dolls with cut-out dresses were a popular pastime for children in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when printers produced sheets of a doll figure alongside separate paper garments with tabs that folded over the doll's shoulders and waist. This example pairs a doll with a set of outfits, letting a child dress and redress the figure as fashions and occasions changed. Such dolls often reflected the clothing styles of their own day, so they serve as small records of how ordinary families imagined dress, work and leisure. Look closely at the tabs and the printed detail on each garment to see how carefully the designs were made for handling.
| Original scan | 1,456 × 1,119 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g05439_ |
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