Here's a set featuring cowboy Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. This set was made by Whitman. it's a partially cut set and may be missing items. This was published in 1954 and features two heavy dolls in a lovely folder.
... or as they were known in an earlier incarnation: Leonard Slye and Frances Octavia Smith. By any name, this cut set (shared by a friend)...
As children during the “Fabulous Fifties,” my sister and I enjoyed playing with paper dolls. Many hours were spent on our living room rug or on that of our Grandmother Lavenua, cutting out and arranging the clothes, accessories, and sometimes even furniture of our paper doll families. Our favorites included brides and grooms; ballerinas; movie stars: Doris Day, Vivien Leigh, Debbie Reynolds, and Elizabeth Taylor; and television stars: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans; the Mousketeers, Cubby & Karen from the "Mickey Mouse Show;" the Story Princess from the “Howdy Doody Show;” and the Lennon Sisters from the “Lawrence Welk Show.” A special favorite was our magnetic set, “Magic Mary Jane.” Paper dolls are a wonderful source of history, culture, literature, costume, art, marketing, and nostalgia and have been around as long as there has been paper. In Asian cultures many years ago, faces or other objects were applied to the paper used during religious rituals and ceremonies. More similar to contemporary paper dolls were the “pantins,” the jointed dancing or jumping jack puppets of eighteenth century France. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain, printers printed paper dolls, mixing fun and virtue by printing stories with morals and values to accompany them. Paper dolls were a valuable treasure in early America, since paper was limited. By the mid-1800s, paper dolls were produced as a beautifully lithographed full-color collection. The artist, Raphael Tuck, was perhaps the best known manufacturer of the vintage paper dolls of this era. The trademark style of this company was the set of vintage paper doll costumes and interchangeable heads. There were dolls representing royalty, the children of royalty, and actors from the theater, stage, and opera. Early paper doll sets often advertised a particular product, e.g., sewing, bakery, or medicinal products. With the purchase of the product children would receive a doll or outfits. The Boston Sunday Globe began printing paper dolls in the 1890s. Characters from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” were the subject of one of its paper doll supplements in 1896. Women's magazines often came with a page of paper dolls for children to cut out: Ladies' Home Journal (Lettie Lane Series); Pictorial Review (Dolly Dingle); and McCall’s (Betsy McCall). The website, Betsy McCall Paper Dolls: The First Ten Years, features scanned originals from 1951 through 1961, ready to download, cut and play. Another web site includes a brief history of McCall’s magazine and the history of the Betsy McCall paper dolls. The popularity of paper dolls soared during the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's. Paper dolls were made and sold representing royalty, public leaders, movie stars, fantasy fairy tale style characters, comic book characters, TV characters, family groups, brides, dancers, stuffed animals, babies, and even cherubs. Public popularity waned somewhat during the 1960s , attributed to the increased popularity of television-viewing and the rise of the three dimensional fashion doll industry, i.e., Barbie, Toni, etc. A site from which to order vintage and mint uncut paper dolls (as well as a real trip down "Memory Lane") is: http://www.papergoodies.com/scripts/default.asp. You are certain to locate some of your old favorites!
Here's a set featuring cowboy Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. This set was made by Whitman. it's a partially cut set and may be missing items. This was published in 1954 and features two heavy dolls in a lovely folder.
... or as they were known in an earlier incarnation: Leonard Slye and Frances Octavia Smith. By any name, this cut set (shared by a friend), is amazing.
Roy & Dale were known as the King of the Cowboys and the Queen of the West! Fan Mail! ...But their lives were more than...
... or as they were known in an earlier incarnation: Leonard Slye and Frances Octavia Smith. By any name, this cut set (shared by a friend), is amazing.
Here's a rare, colourful and dramatic movie poster for 'Trigger Jr.", starring Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, and Trigger of course, smartest horse in the movies! The date of the movie release was 1950, by Republic Pictures. Size is 27 by 41 inches. Posters like this would have been folded and packed with the film reels and sent to different movie theatres, unfolded and posted on the lobby walls. This poster shows some damage from all that folding, especially in the middle, as shown in photos. It could be repaired and backed with canvas, worth doing as it's a great image.
It’s no secret I love western wear. But a secret I do have is that I have a soft spot for vintage paper dolls. For years I have refrained from purchasing any of these miniature works of art, …
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The Touch of Roy and Dale is the story of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. Tricia Spencer recalls the impact and influence of Roy and Dale as only their fans and family could tell it. Included in this wonderful book are never before seen photos, art, poetry and songs, along with letters of fan mail, and a wealth of information about this awesome couple. There is so much more in this book that you just need to check it out for yourself! One sentence I read in this book says that Roy Rogers and Dale Evans touched lives, and their legacy lives on, and this is so true for those of us who remember them. I wanted to read The Touch of Roy and Dale to remember those early years of my life and the excitement as my parents talked about them, and always listened and watched as they were on television and radio. They were a household name that I will never forget. This book is so very interesting. Ms. Spencer goes into details about their lives, and the mountains of fan mail they received. And back in the day it was snail mail, not email, so you can imagine! I especially enjoyed hearing their children remembering their mom and dad, and the life they lived while growing up in their home. If you are fans of this Happy Trails couple, I really want to encourage you to pick up a copy of this book. There are just not enough words to tell you the wonders of this precious book!
Here's a set featuring cowboy Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. This set was made by Whitman. it's a partially cut set and may be missing items. This was published in 1954 and features two heavy dolls in a lovely folder.
Here's a set featuring cowboy Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. This set was made by Whitman. it's a partially cut set and may be missing items. This was published in 1954 and features two heavy dolls in a lovely folder.
Here's a set featuring cowboy Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. This set was made by Whitman. it's a partially cut set and may be missing items. This was published in 1954 and features two heavy dolls in a lovely folder.
