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The Antique Dollhouse

    
Throughout time, children have loved to  play house. Make believe and role-playing was practice for real life. For hundreds of years, children have played with miniature replicas of a standard house. Visit the links listed below to see photographs of real doll's houses from the past.
  


  
Bliss & German Doll Houses (1880-1900)  

Three small dollhouses from the Delaware Toy & Miniature Museum.

Dollhouse, 1915  
A miniature model house erected in Bismarck Garden for a charity event. From the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933

Moritz Gottschalk Blue Roof Doll House  
An 1880 dollhouse shown at the Delaware Toy & Miniature Museum

1895 Dollhouse 
Dollhouse from the Lines Company at the Delaware Toy & Miniature Museum

Dollhouse  
Interior of a furnished doll house from the Collection of the Denver Public Library.

Dollhouse  
View of the exterior of a two-story doll house from the Collection of the Denver Public Library.

Dollhouse Bedroom  
Shows the interior of a doll house from the Collection of the Denver Public Library.

Queen Mary's Doll House  
Early twentieth century dolls' house on permanent display at Windsor Castle.

Fairy Castle  
One of the most opulent dollhouses in North America.

Old Doll Houses  
Doll's houses from the Puppenhausmuseum.

  


   

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