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Printed sheets: Doll Cut-Outs, Set No. 1; Set No. 2; Set No. 3; uncut paper doll figures & clothes produced by Decalco Litho. Co., Hoboken, n.d., ca. 1918-1925.

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Printed sheets: Doll Cut-Outs, Set No. 1; Set No. 2; Set No. 3; uncut paper doll figures and clothes, produced by the Decalco Litho. Company, Hoboken, no date, 1918-1925. Each leaf: 8" high x 11" wide uncoated heavyweight paper, printed one side, full-color. PDF on file. High resolution images on file. Each leaf is titled at top: Doll Cut-Outs. Set number is at lower left corner. Manufacturer is at lower right. Each set (one per sheet) includes a young woman and child figure plus multiple outfits and accessories for each to be cut out and put on them. The clothing fashions depicted appear to be from before the early date of issue. The artwork was likely originally produced in an earlier period when the company was called American Transfer Pictures & Printing Co. (founded 1908.) This sheet carries its later name, Decalco Litho Co., which was first used in 1918. See notes and related.

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Date(s) Created: 1918-1925 ca Date(s): 1918-1925

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Notes: Information on Decalco per Hans, 100 Hoboken Firsts, page 73, where a depiction of objects 2001.100.0001 is shown: The first American manufacturer of decals was located in Hoboken. This business, located at 611 Newark Street in the 1920s, was founded in 1908 under the name American Transfer Pictures & Printing Co. According to the History of the Municipalities of Hudson County, 1924 "during its early years the activities of the enterprise comprised chiefly the manufacture of printed toy goods, and the company is understood to have been the original American manufacturer of children's decalcomania transfer pictures." The business was incorporated in 1918 as Decalco Litho Company, Inc. ==== Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2015-05-08

Printed sheets: Doll Cut-Outs, Set No. 1; Set No. 2; Set No. 3; uncut paper doll figures & clothes produced by Decalco Litho. Co., Hoboken, n.d., ca. 1918-1925. picture number 1
Printed sheets: Doll Cut-Outs, Set No. 1; Set No. 2; Set No. 3; uncut paper doll figures & clothes produced by Decalco Litho. Co., Hoboken, n.d., ca. 1918-1925. picture number 2 Printed sheets: Doll Cut-Outs, Set No. 1; Set No. 2; Set No. 3; uncut paper doll figures & clothes produced by Decalco Litho. Co., Hoboken, n.d., ca. 1918-1925. picture number 3 Doll Cut-Outs, Set No. 1, Decalco Litho. Co. Doll Cut-Outs, Set No. 2, Decalco Litho. Co. Doll Cut-Outs, Set No. 3, Decalco Litho. Co. Printed sheets: Doll Cut-Outs, Set No. 1; Set No. 2; Set No. 3; uncut paper doll figures & clothes produced by Decalco Litho. Co., Hoboken, n.d., ca. 1918-1925. picture number 7