Name: Baby Sue and Baby Doll Paper Dolls
Published By and When: Samuel Lowe Company, 1969
Sizes: Both identical paper dolls are 10 inches. L-R Baby Sue’s book and Baby Doll’s package measure 8-1/4 x 11-1/2 and 7-1/4 x 12-1/2.
Description: Lowe used the same paper doll to publish two separate paper dolls of this 10-inch baby that holds a puppy. Sue is the name of the doll in the paper doll book. The other package doll is simply named Baby Doll. The unnamed doll has simulated (flocked) hair. Baby Sue’s hair is painted. Baby Sue’s paper doll and fashions are pre-cut. The Baby Doll paper doll is pre-cut; the fashions require scissors to cut out. The fashions in both are quite possibly identical as indicated by the same fashion on the back of each paper doll. Baby Sue has five pages (including the back cover) of punch-out fashions and accessories. The back of Baby Doll’s package reads, “Pre-cut 10 inch cardboard Doll and stand. 5 Dresses, Playsuit, Hairbow, 3 Bonnets, 4 Pairs of Shoes and Socks to cutout.”
Gallery (Baby Doll’s gallery clothing images were made possible by a duplicate Baby Doll paper-doll donation to the museum from Carol Clark.)
Baby Doll’s clothing, illustrated below, is probably identical to Sue’s.
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