Fashion & Costume
Fashion, Department Stores
Boston, Massachusetts: A. Shuman & Company, 1880. Handbill advertising the Grand Re-Opening of Boston department store A. Shuman & Company, featuring a charming "Historical Plate, Showing Costumes from the 1st Century to Present Date". Lithographically reproduced from the original French plate titled "Grand Panorama Historique de la Mode", the illustration.....
Price: $150.00
hand made paper doll, naive paper doll, 1880s paper doll
A sweet 6 1/2” handmade paper doll constructed with the face from an image on an advertising piece and tissue paper with black boots and tissue stockings. c1890s. This is one of three (3) dolls we are offering constructed using the same format. There are two with pink accents and.....
Price: $45.00
Handmade Paper Doll,Bow Ties,Male Paper Dolls
United States: N.p., 1930s. Dapper, charming, and fashionable, "Bill" is a unique handmade paper doll from c.1930s with five full outfits, two overcoats, and a matching hat. Notable for the artist's attention to detail (two separate tiny bowties, including one for the tuxedo which is tucked under the white lapels).....
Price: $226.00
Original Paper Doll Art
United States: 1870s. A handmade paper doll with original watercolor artwork of a young Victorian woman in day wear, evening wear, and outerwear, including a feathered bonnet. Original pencil and watercolor, doll measures 5.25", includes doll and 8 (eight) separate outfits.
Price: $375.00
Original Paper Doll Art
United States: c.1900. An elegantly rendered family of seven (7) blonde Edwardian paper dolls in day wear, including a mother, father, and five daughters ranging in age from around three to fifteen. Original artwork, pencil and watercolor on card, sizes of dolls ranging from approx. 3.5" to 7". No additional.....
Price: $425.00
Gender in Advertising,Men's Fashion,Courting
Chicago, Illinois: Hart Schaffner & Marx, 1904. The Fall & Winter 1904 catalogue for men's fashion by Hart Schaffner & Marx, featuring a tongue-in-cheek illustration on the front: a handsome, well-dressed man distracts an older woman with a Bible passage while he sneakily slips her beautiful young daughter a love.....
Price: $150.00
Advertising, Fashion, Women, Business
Cincinnati, Ohio: Queen City Suspender Company, [1880s?]. Advertisement for Mrs. Smith's Skirt Suspenders, sold by the Queen City Suspender Co. of Cincinnati, with confident claims: "The most desirable and beneficial article ever invented for the relief of women, many of whom have suffered long years of miserable health, caused solely.....
Price: $175.00
Scotland, Fabric and Textiles, Illustrated Catalogue, Price List, Tartan, Clans
Glasgow, Scotland: Paisleys Limited, c1950. Twelfth edition of the Highland Dress catalog by Paisleys Limited of Glasgow. Marketed largely to American tourists, the catalog begins with a brief description of offerings. Each page has an illustration of the different clan-specific tartans and outfits, as modeled on men, women, and children.....
Price: $150.00
s. and j. fuller, paper toy book, little fanny
A 15 pp book with original slip case. It is The History of Little Fanny, Exemplified in a Series of Figures. Original date 1811. 8th Ed. Includes six (6) of the seven (7) original costumes. Hats lacking. The head has been replaced with a very good watercolor likeness. Wear on.....
Price: $350.00
Regency Paper Doll and Toy Books
London: S. and J. Fuller, 1811. Eighth edition, a scarce near-complete example of "The History of Little Fanny", a Regency-era paper doll book about a little girl who grows from being "idle" and "vain" to "pious, modest, diligent, and mild". Single vol. (5" by 4"), pp. 15, [3], hand-stitched in.....
Price: $1,200.00
Beauty, Anti-Aging, Hollywood
Trenton, New Jersey: Wings Products Co., 1940s. "Lines Vanish" and "Youth Returns" with Hollywood Wings, a box of "medicated frown and wrinkle eradicators" that describe themselves as "the secret of Hollywood beauty". The twenty (20) unused adhesive wings are housed in the original illustrated box (approx. 2.5" by 1.25" by.....
Price: $150.00
parade, photograph, grange society, women, festival, agricultural
Raymond, NH: 1914. Black and white photograph on brown mount. Depicts women standing on a parade float, being pulled by two horses: float consists of a large cart, draped in white fabric, with 16 women and their driver on board. All of the women are wearing white dresses, and there.....
Price: $65.00
Women's Work, Paper Dolls, Pretend Play, Gender Roles
[1860]. The 6.75" paper doll is printed on polished paper applied to card stock. Her occupation is yarn winding. Each of her costumes, sit atop the paper doll and demonstrate a different female occupation of the day. Definitely all considered women's work for the aristocratic set. The occupations include tatting.....
Price: $2,350.00
Trade Card, Hair Emporium
[Brooklyn, New York?]: F.J. Medina's Hair Emporium, c.1865. Printed trade card (3.25" by 2", printed in red and black on coated card) promoting Ivin's Opera Hair Crimpers, sold by F.J. Medina's Hair Emporium. Includes an image of a stylish young woman with crimped hair on the recto, and an address.....
Price: $75.00
Jacob's Ladder, Movable Toy, Napoleon
c1850s. A four-part hand colored litho on board with white laces and a wooden handle. When twisted the scene changes and Napoleon changes his costumes.
Price: $900.00
Gender Roles, Women's History
Dansville NY: Fowler & Whitaker, Dry Goods, [1874]. Palmer's Patent 1869. A 7 3/4" x 4" A leaflet promoting the Jacqueline Corset. Trademark images at top. It begins "Every Lady should exercise the utmost care in the selection of her Corsets. No article of a Lady's wardrobe is more important.....
Price: $115.00
Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Film Star
Sandusky, OH: Stephens Publishing Company, [1946]. This book has two (2) punch out dolls of June Allyson (1917-2006) an American stage, film and television actress with a 'girl next store' image. She is most well known for her parts in films such as Two Girls and A Sailor (1944), and.....
Price: $65.00
Fashion and Costume, Children's Literature, Paper Doll
New York: Toilettes Fashion Company, Aug-05. 34 pp with current fashions for the younger set. Each page incldues various costumes include back views and pattern numbers. Also includes Fashion Hints - Helps for Buy Mothers, A Pretty Improved Girdle, Mothers Corner, Children's Sweaters, a paper doll page with Cecile and.....
Price: $85.00
Women's Lingerie
Boston, Massachusetts: La Jeanne, 1930s. Photographically illustrated advertising pamphlet for La Jeanne brand lace control garments, including prices and fabrics for each of the five different models available. Options available for both "the Slighter Figure" and "the Larger Figure". Tri-fold pamphlet (6.25" by 3.25" folded, 9.25" by 3.25" unfolded), photographic.....
Price: $115.00
Lancaster Mills, Fabric Swatches and Samples
Clinton, Massachusetts: Lancaster Mills, c.1890. An attractive and well-preserved sample of gingham fabric, contained within a lithographed card bifolium with image of a fashionable young lady on the front, and an aerial view of the Lancaster Mills factory on the back. Opposite the fabric sample is a description of the.....
Price: $75.00
Women's Fashion Design
[Hendersonville, North Carolina]: March 23rd, 1908. A letter written to "Dearest" from "Your devoted friend", giving the heartbreaking news of the death of an acquaintance, Mrs. Gurley of Hendersonville (tragically, her husband Professor E.W. Gurley would die later that year in November, leaving their daughter Fayetta Gurley orphaned). The author.....
Price: $225.00
Pretend Play, Paper Dolls, Social History
Germany: c1850. A 7 1/4" litho on heavy stock paper doll with his original stand and eight (8) costumes and seven (7) hats. The costumes and dolls are colored lithograph with eggwash enhancements. His costumes reflect the affluent lifestyle and times of the young boy of the day. They include.....
Price: $650.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Victorian Fashion,Girlhood,Hand-colored Paper Dolls
[Germany?]: 1860s. A lovely 4.5" paper doll depicting a fashionable young woman, housed in her original box with eleven (11) outfits and five (5) hats/hair pieces. There are two copies of the doll itself; both the doll and all of the outfits and hats are two-sided, and the outfits slip.....
Price: $1,500.00
advertising, women's history, beauty, make-up, Lady Claire Face Powder, face powder, product sample, business history
Toledo, OH: Lorenz & Co., [1887-1890]. A small collection of four (4) pieces of materials relating to Lorenz & Co. a perfumatory and maker of cosmetic products in Toledo, OH. The first item in the collection is a small envelope housing a product sample of Lady Claire Face Powder, which.....
Price: $150.00