One of the most detailed contempory Paper Doll Series available today is the bi-monthly American Girl Magazine Paper Dolls. Each Issue features a real live girl who has researched her family tree and sent in photos of herself and various female ancestors. The clothes are in vibrant colors and excellent historical and ethnic costumes. The sense of accomplishment for any of these girls is evident, and the artists that take the photos and recreate these real life American Girls as paper dolls are to be commended for their beautiful work.

Important!!!! In a recent phone call expressing my displeasure at the ALL dogs issue complete with dogs paperdoll instead of the wonderful historical paperdoll we are used to, it was hinted at that there may be a sticker issue instead of paperdoll, as well as a discontinuation of the doll entirely! She said it was tentative, BUT if you love these dolls as much as I do be sure and call write or email to let AMerican Girl magazine know we LOVE their paperdolls and do not want to see them disappear.

Real Life American Girls
Doll #1 Nov-Dec 1992 Courtney Price Traces back to 1792 Ghana	Doll #2 Jan-Feb 1993 Shira Kalman-Hicks Traces back to 1871 If you have this doll to sell please email	Doll #3 Mar-Apr 1993 Alexandra Forsythe Traces back to 1864 Colorado	Doll #4 May-June 1993 Allison Barnthouse Traces back to 1783 Ohio
Doll #5 July-Aug 1993 Lindsey Kawamura Traces back to 1863 Japan	Doll #6 Sep-Oct 1993 Chrissy Lanning Traces back to 1849 Italy	Doll #7 Nov-Dec 1993 Ashlyn Denny Traces back to 1873 Antigua	Doll #8 Jan-Feb 1994 Laura Benoit Traces back to 1758 Acadia Canada
Doll #9 Mar-Apr 1994 Ashley DeTillio Traces back to 1861 Ohio	Doll #10 May-June 1994 Brienne Kvaran Traces back to 1834 Iceland	Doll #11 July-Aug 1994 Emily Chamberlain Traces back to 1890 Chile	Doll #12 Sep-Oct 1994 Emily Talbot Traces back to 1878 Philippines
Doll #13 Nov-Dec 1994 Monica Wendel Traces back to 1842 Germany	Doll #14 Jan-Feb 1995 Ashlee Stevenson Traces back to 1841 England	Doll #15 Mar-Apr 1995 Falon Robbins Traces back to 1857 Georgia	Doll #16 May-June 1995 Kathleen Hynes Traces back to 1870 Ireland
Doll #17 July-Aug 1995 Amanda Walls Traces back to 1840 Virginia	Doll #18 Sep=Oct 1995 Ragini Srinivasan Traces back to 1906 India	Doll #19 Nov-Dec 1995 Elizabeth Perlman Traces back to 1629 Massachusetts	Doll #20 Jan-Feb 1996 Taylor Norvell Traces back to 1881 England
Doll #21 MAr-Apr 1996 Christy Nock Traces back to 1871 Japan	Doll #22 May-June 1996 Brittany Harold-Golden Traces back to 1890 Kansas	Doll #23 July-Aug 1996 Sefako Ketosugbo Traces back to 1886 Barbados	Doll #24 Sep-Oct 1996 Sarah Streit Traces back to 1439 Medieval England
Doll #25 Nov-Dec 1996 Melissa Siracuse Traces back to 1870 Indonesia	Doll #26 Jan-Feb 1997 Emily Zeroun Traces back to 1884 Turkey/Armenia	Doll #27 Mar-Apr 1997 Rachel Scholten Traces back to 1893 Netherlands	Doll #28 May-June 1997 Stephanie Sutton Traces back to 1865 Virgina
Doll #29 July-Aug 1997 Kaleen Long Traces back to 1899 Wyoming	Doll #30 Sep-Oct 1997 Stephanie Garrard Traces back to 1855 Germany	Doll #31 Nov-Dec 1997 Nicole Recomendes Traces back to 1891 Poland	Doll #32 Jan-Feb 1998 Hilary Rhodes Traces back to 1650 Scotland
Doll #33 Mar-Apr 1998 Liana Katz Traces back to 1888 Lithuania	Doll #34 May-June 1998 Julia Lewis Traces back to 1887 Hungary	Doll #35 July-Aug 1998 Marisha Castle Traces back to 1885 Michigan	Doll #36 Sep-Oct 1998 Synneva Hagen-Lillevik Traces back to 1871 Norway
Doll #37 Nov-Dec 1998 Jacqueline Moorehead Traces back to 1862 Rhode Island	Doll #38 Jan-Feb 1999 Kara Irby Traces back to 1893 Washington DC	Doll #39 Mar-Apr 1999 Mary Chris Denney Traces back to 1684 New York	Doll #40 May-June 1999 Nadia Abouraya Traces back to 1853 Arabian desert
Doll #41 July-Aug 1998 Kimberly allen Traces back to 1901 North Carolina	Doll #42 Sep-Oct 1999 Vanessa Yang Traces back to 1885 China	Doll #43 Nov-Dec 1999 Hannah Hamavid Traces back to 1863 Russia	Doll #44 Jan-Feb 2000 Kelly Jones Traces back to 1103 Medieval England
Doll #45 Mar-Apr 2000 Paper Dogs, just dogs, that's all,yawn! dogs through the ages, wasn't that insightful?	Doll #46 May-June 2000 Ilze Lazdins Traces back to 1881 Latvia	The current Issue and paperdoll is online at American Girl Magazine.	The current Issue and paperdoll is online at American Girl Magazine.

The first AG Mag paperdoll was 3 pages double sided regular magazine sheets, I don't know what #2 was, but #3 was an 8x10" pullout folded 4 page poster sheet. Dolls #4 through #17 were on a 3 page double-sided cardstock sheet 8.5" x 10.5" and dolls #18 to current are on a 3 page double-sided cardstock sheet measuring 7"x11". Each doll is in the same shape and proportions so the clothes are interchangable. There is usually the doll, 4 outfits, and 2 mini-booklet pages to assemble into a small history diary of the girl.

I have heard mention of a promotional paperdoll that was distributed prior to the first issue for publicity but have not seen it. If you have this promo doll and can send me a photo copy I'd love to add it to this webpage.

Here are some photos of a few of my favorite costumes and dresses.

The best part is a lot of these dolls are still obtainable through the back-issues. I first found these dolls in Feb 1998 and in 1 short year was able to acquire all but #2 in the series. I found the American Girl website, called their info # and was transferred to the magazine customer service. and was not only able to set up a subscription to get all the new issues and their paper dolls, but quite a few back issues. The man who was extremely helpful for me was named Dennis. Anyway I was able to get quite a few of the older issues for only 5$ each. If you call they may be able to help you as well. I bought ones as far back as Jul-Aug 1995. their webpage is at http://www.americangirl.com/ and the customer service phone number is (800)845-0005.

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