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The Golden Era: West by Rail With the Harvey Girls (West by Rail with the Harvey Girls) | 
 enlarge | Author: Lesley Poling-kempes
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $107.47
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1469299
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 11.8 x 8.9 x 0.2
ISBN: 0896723763
Dewey Decimal Number: 385
EAN: 9780896723764
ASIN: 0896723763
Publication Date: May 1997
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The Golden Era : West by Rail With the Harvey Girls July 29, 2000
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This paper doll book covers the years from 1922 to 1927. In addition to the five 8-inch dolls and their outfits, there is a journal. The journal tells the story of the characters and the clothing they wear. Each doll has a variety of costumes including uniforms, everyday wear, and dressy clothes. Various hairstyles are provided for the females. This book is very well done. The dolls and clothes are printed on glossy cardstock and paper. The colors appear to be the correct hues for the time. Beside each costume is a short description with fashion notes and the year. The fashion notes vary in contents. They may contain the materials used, the names of the colors, the source of the clothing, or when it was worn. Many of the outfits came from the Sears catalog. Unlike many paper doll books for the Twenties, this one shows ordinary people not movie stars or the rich and famous. The book also includes a brief glossary of fashion terms and a bibliography. The back cover has a map showing where the events of the journal occurred and a picture of Fred Harvey. It packs a lot of information in its few pages. After carefully removing the pages of dolls and costumes you can reassemble the book and have the complete journal. If you cut out the fashion notes and attach them to the back of the outfits, you will have them for future reference. If you're interested in fashion of the Twenties, the history of the West or the Harvey Girls get this book. (I was personally disappointed in the book only because I wanted the Harvey Girls of an earlier period. The description of the book didn't include the dates when I ordered it.)
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