This is the fourth group of dollies published by both Whitman and Dell Publishing companies using the same set of clothes for paper dolls Whitman published in 1936, 1939 and again in 1941 and Dell in 1937.
The drawn set of clothes used in sets for the dollies above were first published in 1936 for Emilie Dionne, pictured on the far left, by Whitman Publishing Co. and cataloged as #1055.
In 1939 Whitman published a set of five books using Emilie's clothes for their doll named Bunny. This set of books with dolls named Peggy, Dotty, Patsy and Margie were listed as # 1002.
Again using the clothing drawn for Emilie, Whitman published the set that included Mary Jane in 1941. Other dolls in the 1941 set were Sally Ann, Patty Lou, Betty Sue and Mary Lee and assigned #1010.
On the far right is another Emily that was included in Five Dionne Quintuplets published by Dell Publishing in 1937. This doll book, featuring five redrawn dolls, used the same clothing graphics originally published by Whitman in 1936.
The artist for the original set of Dionne books was Avis Mac. I have not discovered the names of the artists for the other books published as most paper doll books are not signed. Mary Young, author of several Tomart Price Guides on different publishers, produced a good reference on many of the paper doll artists of the 1930-50s in her book Paper Dolls and Their Artists published in 1975 by United Printers, Inc.
Emilie, Bunny, Mary Jane and Emilie can be nicely dressed
to work in the garden or on a shopping trip with mom.
Emilie loves to be outdoors in the snow or inside painting pictures.
A walk in the rain, a picture to paint, getting ready for bed or sailing her toy boat on the pond, Emilie is always sweetly dressed.
A pretty yellow dress to wear at tea time
and a warm green sweater and skirt if it's cool,
but I bet her favorite thing to wear
is her bright red slicker and galoshes!
After her day at the park, Emilie and her dolly are all ready for bed.
Each of the doll books in the set that included Bunny, Margie,
Dotty, Patsy and Peggy had this sweet little tea party scene
on the back cover with a slit to slide the dolly behind the table.
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