Paper Dolls
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Grepke, Donald, 1932-
label: Collection Creator
content: Grepke, Carolyn, 1937-1995
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content: The Carolyn and Donald Grepke Paper Doll Collection
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content: The Carolyn and Donald Grepke Paper Doll Collection / Series 6: Paper Toys
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1890-1980, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0752, Subseries 6.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Include paper doll creations not based on personalities, characters, themes, events, or popular culture. Instead, the dolls were intentionally made as toys in paper form. The materials span over a century and represent some of the earliest manufacturers of paper dolls including McLoughlin Brothers, Dennison Manufacturing Company, and Raphael Tuck. Some of these companies continued to create paper dolls well into the twentieth century.  Greeting card companies also offered paper dolls on cards.  Paper dolls were primarily made of paper but could also be wood, plastic, or magnetic. Many of the dolls had special attributes like handmade, cloth, or press on clothes; yarn, curly, blonde, wavy or real hair; or the ability to stand and move arms, legs, or eyes. Materials are arranged in alphabetical order.