does anyone know where i can find the timeline of the paperdoll?

Question

i have an english project to do today.i have a fair chance of either able to get extra time or we just turn in whatever we have.so i am looking for a timeline of the paperdoll...or justa timeline of the doll invention. thank you very much!

Answer 1

found this on the 2nd link below hope i helped-

Many doll collectors have at least a few paper dolls as a part of their collection. Paper dolls also appeal to collectors of paper ephemera. But, most collectors know very little about the rich history and strong collectibility of paper dolls.

Early History Of Paper Dolls

Paper dolls first appeared in Paris in the 18th century, during the reign of Louis XV. The whimsical toys easily found a place in the gay atmosphere of royal French society. On the other side of the English Channel during this time period, proper British printers mixed fun and virtue by printing moral stories on the flat sheets that comprised the dolls! Hence, from their earliest, paper dolls were used in a very different ways, and were accurate reflections of very different cultures.

Early European paper dolls often depicted actors and actresses, and the dolls were intended for use with toy stages. Literary-minded youngsters enacted Shakespeare with casts of paper dolls, many with permanently printed costumes (which was common at this time).

In Pioneer America, paper dolls had more humble beginnings. In Pioneer America, paper was a prized resource, and it was rarely "wasted" on toys. If children were lucky enough to get paper dolls, they treasured them between the pages of a book or in a carefully guarded box. This later changed with the invention of mechanical grinding machines, which became a ready source for pulp paper. As paper became less of a luxury, dolls were mass produced on inexpensive cardboard and became readily available to children..

Until the development of chroma-lithography printing, paper dolls were colored by hand. In America, Civil War widows often earned money by embellishing the printed paper dolls. For instance, they would create a series of beautiful brides--"the Belle Of the South, "The Belle Of the West, " and "The Belle of Saratoga."

An interesting fact about early printed doll clothes was that they did not include tabs for dressing the dolls, as are common with paper dolls today. Instead, children painstakingly attached the clothes with tiny drops of sealing wax. They took care to press gently when they attached their clothes to their dolls, lest they tear the paper doll.