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section 2: dollhouses 1880s to 1920s images & photography: Jennifer McKendryİ home page GALLERY of IMAGES 1 GALLERY OF IMAGES 3 GALLERY OF IMAGES 4 GALLERY OF IMAGES 5 GALLERY OF IMAGES 6 INDEX to GALLERY History of Dollhouses article
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c1890 American
stereocard by I.W. Ingersoll, St Paul, Minn. (no date)
The furniture is likely German
c1880 Canadian house from south-west Ontario, probably hand-made by skilled craftsman, glazing bars painted on glass, panelled doors, original wallpaper and curtains
1893 Carl P. Stirn catalogue, New York; dollhouse with lithographed front made by Moritz Gottschalk of Germany
1901 Lithographed cardboard rooms, which can be folded (each room is shown below); furnished with soft metal furniture, easels and mantelpieces; attributed to Peter F. Pia of New York
1905 page from the Catalogue of Holiday Goods offered by Wiemann & Muench, Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- details follow
Six dollhouses, some of which are by the American manufacturer Bliss, for example, the cottage with the keyhole attic (#572 left) the seaside house (#573 below left) the two-storey cottage with verandah (#574 below right) the rustic Adirondack Cottage complete with a roof handle in the form of a member of the First Nations (#662 below, attributed to Bliss).
None of these designs are shown in the 1911 Bliss catalogue. Bliss began making lithogrphed paper on wood houses in 1889.
1905 dated stereocard, Kawin &Co.
1905 Youth's Companion , 5 November (detail below with colour added)
1906
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Undated Photograph (in a school?) from the USA; shows a simple home-made dollhouse with home-made furnishings
1913 American cardboard house and garden (interior and exterior are shown below); windows and door are hinged; complete with range and chimney; originally sold with lithographed cardboard furnishings
1923 American Illustration from the catalogue of the Schoenhut Company, Philadelphia This line of houses was introduced in 1917. Made with a wood frame, the fibreboard is embossed to represent stone walls and a foundation with a tiled roof; made in a variety of sizes and number of storeys; side wall opens (see below); "inside of houses covered with lithographs to represent fancy wallpaper"; glazed with glass, the windows have original lace curtains Beginning in 1927, the exterior walls were smooth, perhaps imitating stucco
In 1927, Schoenhut introduced "a line of very artistic high-class doll houses" including ones with gardens, trees, shrubbery, a garage and painted wooden automobile; each of the shuttered windows has 8 tiny lights in the upper sash over an undivided lower sash (the earlier houses have 2 undivided sash in each window); the door has a lattice-work window( the earlier houses have solid panelled doors); house sizes ranged downward to a simple one-room bungalow with the front roof extended to form a verandah
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