If you are older than 50, you probably remember Betsy McCall. She was a popular paper doll introduced in McCall’s magazine in May 1951. She soon was part of a family of dolls that included her mother, ...

MARION - Walk into Janet Flanagan's shop and 600 pairs of eyes stare back at you. Spooky? Nah. The eyes are not alive; they belong to dolls. Cloth head dolls, China head dolls, metal head dolls.

It’s probably all Betsy Wetsy’s fault. If the iconic baby-boom generation baby doll hadn’t introduced the world to the notion that dolls could have bodily functions, then maybe today we wouldn’t be ...

Shirley Temple. Betsy McCall. Madame Alexander. Betsy Wetsy. Raggedy Ann and Andy. Kewpie. Barbie. To some, these doll names just evoke fond memories of childhood playtime. To members of the ...