"Forever Darling" Coloring Contest, 1956

A 1956 newspaper coloring contest for "Forever Darling" starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.

GOAT-WAGON TOY, 1909

The "Goat-Wagon Toy" was a cut-out for children from the Sunday comics section of various newspapers in September 1909.

Charlie McCarthy & Mortimer Snerd Coloring Contest, 1939

A coloring contest for the movie "You Can't Cheat An Honest Man". The movie starred W. C. Fields, Edgar Bergen, Constance Moore, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson and Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. The coloring contest ran in various newspapers in March of 1939 and the winners received tickets to the movie.

OLIVER WENDELL DOUGLAS Paper Doll from "Green Acres"

My Oliver Wendell Douglas paper doll from the television series "Green Acres". If my paper doll sets came with male paper dolls I would usually set them aside and never play with them. I liked Oliver and I actually played with this paper doll.

BUB and CHUB Paper Dolls from Aunt Elsie,1920

Bub and Chub are newspaper paper dolls that appeared in "Aunt Elsie", a page for children in the Oakland Tribune, on May 09, 1920. My Grandma Helm was a quilter and these paper dolls remind me of the Sunbonnet Kids quilt pattern. Bub and Chub are from "The Black Cat" - I do not know this story.

Paper Dolls To Sell Clothes

The Elsie Dinsmore paper doll ad for Wolf-Dessauer appeared in the February 13, 1916 edition of The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. The ad for free paper dolls from Children's Apparel Shop appeared in the March 18, 1919 edition of the Evening Telegram. The December 01, 1966 Oakland Tribune ran a two-page ad featuring paper dolls with clothes available from advertisers.

BOOTS Wednesday, Starting Today

Every Wednesday will be BOOTS day - she is my fav. BOOTS loves the great outdoors and here she is water skiing on March 29, 1953. The second BOOTS paper doll appeared in newspapers on May 15, 1938.