Dolls and Doll Toys Made of Paper – Doll Miniatures of the 19th Century

Abstract

The article describes the meaning and function of game-accompanying and game-creating paper objects for female 19th century doll culture. The focus is on doll toys made of paper in the form of doll-related paper objects as part of children's book production: girl doll history, doll memoirs, craft, recipe and play books and doll houses made of paper in book form. In addition, the importance of toy dolls as part of paper culture of the 19th century is presented. As a result, it emerged that these miniaturized models of paper objects had the task of providing an exciting field of attractive learning opportunities and entertainment for nineteenth-century children through the intuition, reification, and concretization of play situations.