EUREKA — It all started when the sophisticated big city reporter Brenda Starr caught Betty Wettstein’s eye. Growing up in rural Washington during the Great Depression, 8-year-old Betty had never seen ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Collection consists of paper dolls dating from the 1800s-1998. The bulk of the paper dolls, however, date from the 1900s-1970s. Due to the Grepkes ...

Navigating a library of novels, textbooks, and encyclopedias is best conquered with a catalog. The people who organize those countless pages often go unseen, until now. Judy Jones, master cataloguer, ...

When Patti Fertel moved to Columbus from Philadelphia in 1975, her modest paper-doll collection consisted primarily of pretty trinkets she'd picked up at a toy store while shopping for her two young ...

Arabella Grayson's interest in finding paper playthings that looked like her evolved into a passionate journey. This exhibition featuring 110 dolls from her collection looks at the history of black ...

One of the oldest dolls in the Vigo County Historical Society’s collection takes the spotlight as this week’s treasure. It is a 31-inch paper mache doll made by Ludwig Greiner. In 1840, Greiner, then ...

WASHINGTON — A slip of the scissors and off comes a foot. A nick and there goes a finger. A wrong snip and a tab that would have held up her dress disappears. Paper dolls, fragile though they were, ...