Turn-of-the-century Dolls, Toys, and Games

Turn-of-the-century Dolls, Toys, and Games
Author: Carl P. Stirn
Publisher: Dover Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1990
Genre: Dolls
ISBN: 9780486263656

Spectacular line of merchandise offered by a leading Manhattan-based wholesaler of imported and domestic toys. Approximately 1,050 illustrations, with captions.

Toys and Games

Toys and Games
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1991
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

Toys and games provide an overview of commercially made playthings available to American children from the colonial period to the 1900s.

Toys in the Age of Wonder

Toys in the Age of Wonder
Author: Mark Rich
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2020-08-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1476639787

By the middle 1800s, toys were appearing in forms that drew upon--and that inspired--advances in areas such as optics, biology, geography, transportation, and automation. In these decades, too, a new type of wonder tale was being brought to maturity by a Poe-inspired Jules Verne. The modern wonder tale's highly-charged vision expressed the hopes and the fears, and the delights and the traumas, engendered by "new worlds idealism"--that Western pursuit of both mechanical and geographical conquest. Exploring realms belonging to childhood, literature, science, and history, this innovative study weaves together the histories of wonder tales and children's toys, focusing specifically on their modern aspects and how they reflect and express the social attitudes of that time period beginning around 1859 and ending around 1957.

Gallery of Late-Seventeenth-Century Costume

Gallery of Late-Seventeenth-Century Costume
Author: Caspar Luyken
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2013-02-21
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0486168409

Magnificent reproductions of 100 rare engravings from a much-imitated reference work depict with precision and elegance a wide range of social classes — from royalty and merchants to military officers and laborers.

America's Early Advertising Paper Dolls

America's Early Advertising Paper Dolls
Author: Lagretta Metzger Bajorek
Publisher: Schiffer Military History
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780764307027

Colorful paper dolls helped to sell goods from coffee to corsets. Toys to generations of children from the 1890s to the First World War, these paper dolls depicted the era's culture through advertising by featuring folk and fairy tales, people at work and play, and costumes of many nations. Here, over 500 color photos display clever advertising in delightful diversity.

Old-Time Tools & Toys of Needlework

Old-Time Tools & Toys of Needlework
Author: Gertrude Whiting
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2013-03-05
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0486166546

More than 200 illustrations of hoops, frames, pins, pincushions, punches, bobbins, bodkins, shuttles, spinning wheels, sewing machines, and more from a wide array of cultures. Index.

The Wonderful World of Toys, Games & Dolls, 1860-1930

The Wonderful World of Toys, Games & Dolls, 1860-1930
Author: Joseph J. Schroeder
Publisher:
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1971
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

A representative sampling of catalogue pages, advertising and illustration that display the toys, games and dolls of the period 1860-1930.

Wheels of Change

Wheels of Change
Author: Darlene Beck-Jacobson
Publisher: Creston Books
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2019-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1939547709

Racial intolerance, social change, and sweeping progress make 1908 Washington, D.C., a turbulent place to grow up in for 12-year-old Emily Soper. For Emily, life in Papa's carriage barn is magic, and she's more at home hearing the symphony of the blacksmith's hammer than trying to conform to the proper expectations of young ladies. When Papa's livelihood is threatened by racist neighbors and horsepower of a different sort, Emily faces changes she'd never imagined. Finding courage and resolve she didn't know she had, Emily strives to save Papa's business, even if it means going all the way to the White House.

The Sword Through the Centuries

The Sword Through the Centuries
Author: Alfred Hutton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2012-10-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0486149722

Engrossing survey details the uses of such weapons as the two-hand sword, the rapier and its auxiliaries, dagger and small sword, broadsword, duelling sword, and sabre. 48 black-and-white illustrations.