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

[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]

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A single page from *Playthings*, a trade magazine written for the toy and game business, makes up this item, with its illustrations of dolls. The record dates it only to the years between 1910 and 1929, and the caption card gives no more precise date. Pages like this one were meant for store buyers and manufacturers, who used such layouts to compare new lines ahead of the holiday selling season. Read today, the page shows how doll designs, clothing, and marketing were presented to the trade in the early twentieth century.

Medium1 item.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,108 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126939

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