Item Info

Language: English
Material: Ink on Paper
Transcription: Buy Polly This Dolly Ten Cents a Day Spent on Liquor would buy in a year 40 bags of Flour or 104 pounds of butter or 104 dozen eggs or 663 pounds of sugar and leave enough over to buy Polly this Dolly Poster Committee, 11 Mason St. Cambridge
Media Type: Ephemera
Source: Children's Literature Research Collection
Notes:

This doll was featured in an article in Paper Doll Review:

Raively, M. (2018). Many childhood books we've loved became paper dolls. Paper Doll Review, 69(Winter), [unpaginated].

Creation Year (Single Year or Earliest Date): ca. 1913
Image Dimensions Width: 14.2 cm
Creator Name: Think-It-Over Poster Committee - Publisher