Although the American Girl website was available earlier in the 90s, the American Girl web store didn’t debut until late 1999. Here’s the homepage you would be greeted with when visiting the website in late 99: Below is what the store homepage looked like. View the screen capture to see the graphics: The home pages […]
Not many people know that Pleasant Company (and later American Girl) sold a real gingerbread house for Samantha that girls could put together and then eat! It was sold from 1986 to 2006 and retail cost was $12-$15. I found this kit for sale recently and wanted to share pictures of the actual set. See […]
Included with the original Pleasant Company dolls was a letter with a message to the parents. Here is the letter I found with a 1988 Samantha doll: It reads: “A MESSAGE TO PARENTS The American Girls Collection was created to give girls a sense of America’s past and an awareness of the traditions of girlhood […]
Read on to see some of the historical character fashion inspiration as printed in the 1991 Holiday catalogue. Kirsten 1854 First off, here’s one of the dresses that was the inspiration for Kirsten’s fashion: Since this catalogue came out over 30 years ago, this dress would be more than 150 years old now. Samantha 1904 […]
Did you know that Samantha and Nellie weren’t the first historical characters to be retired/archived? Before Kaya was released in 2002, Felicity was retired. Below is the official catalogue announcement from American Girl: Felicity was last featured in the Spring 2002 catalogue and many of her items were retired as they sold out. Felicity returned […]