French performer Mistinguett with her collection of dolls, 1900.

Girls in a parlor having a tea party with their dolls, 1905

Portrait of child with her porcelain doll, Paris, c. 1900

Father uses dolls high chair for fuel during the coal strike of 1902

Portrait of young girl posing with her bebe Jumeau doll, c. 1900

Mary Pickford Posing with Doll, 1906

An elderly gentleman with his two dolls, ca. 1903

German Doll artisans sit around a table rooting hair onto the heads of dolls. Germany, pre-1914.

A child photographer takes a picture of a friend and her doll, using a camera made from a packing case and a length of pipe, 1907.

A page from a childrens cutout doll book dating from before World War I.