An American Girl
We love traveling to Chicago especially around Christmas. We stumbled upon the American Girl Place. Our daughters were 5 and 3 at the time and although they enjoyed playing with dolls, this was doll collecting on a much different level.
This place was unreal.
At ages eleven and nine, they now own their own American Girl Dolls and thoroughly enjoyed the mystery and relationships in the movie, Kit Kittredge. This is a summer "must see" movie.
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Cool American Girl Sites
- American Girl Store
- Shop the official American site--see what's new in dolls, books, clothing, accessories, and more.
- Fun for Girls
- Fun for Girls on AmericanGirl.com offers web games and activities for preteen girls, featuring American Girl characters and the American Girl magazine.
- American Girl Playthings!
- Welcome to American Girl Playthings!
Meg and Johanna have been American Girl collectors for many years. Both of us enjoy sharing our collections with girls and collectors of all ages. Years ago Meg created her Guide to the 18 inch dolls. In February or 2006 Johanna created Playthings to house all of the other AG product line information. It seemed a natural fit for Meg's Guide and Playthings to combine. In August of 2006 we did that.
We want to thank all of our fellow collectors for their information and knowledge! Information for this site was painstakingly gathered and reviewed by collectors. Many a catalog was dug out from under a bed or in a closet so that research could be double and triple checked. - Complete Guide to American Girl Doll Collecting
- Introduction
In 1986, Pleasant T. Rowland, a former educator and publisher of educational materials, founded Pleasant Company which is headquartered in Middleton, Wisconsin. Pleasant Company produced and marketed three 18-inch dolls dolls each of which was from a different period in American History. Each of them had an elaborate background story which were told in several professionally-written books. The three girls, Samantha, Kirsten and Molly had a number of historically accurate outfits and accessory sets which tied into and were depicted in the various stories. The American Girl Collection was originally exclusively available only through mail-order catalogs. Over the next several years, five more historical dolls and their stories were added for a total of eight girls spanning periods in U.S. history from 1764 to 1944. All of the accessory items were imaginative, well designed and of the highest quality. In the Fall of 1997, an online store (AmericanGirl.com) was launched. In 1998, Pleasant Company was acquired by Mattel, Inc., the world's leading toy company. Pleasant Rowland took a seat on the Mattel Board as an acting VP for two years, but today she is no longer associated with the company.
Complete Guide To American Doll Collecting
Information Courtesy of curtdanhauser.com
Ruthie Smithens and her collection are here! Also, many new Kit items are here including Kit's Treehouse.
eBay Guides - American Girl Dolls Buying Guide
- eBay Guides - American Girl Dolls Buying Guide
- Learn more about American Girl Dolls easily - use eBay's American Girl Dolls Buying Guide to find what you're looking for.
American Girl Special Items
- AG Doll Collecting - Special Items
- Back in the late 1980's and early 1990's, when there were only three, four or five American Girls in the American Girl Collection, Pleasant Company offered several special items that went along with the American Girl dolls, outfits and doll accessories. This page showcases these special items which included both historical and modern items. These were such items as the Pastimes Subscription kits and books, the Doll Travel Basket, Book slip case, Family Album, Puzzles, Trading Cards, Computer CD-ROMs and more. For in-depth information about the the AG Trading Cards, see the Trading Cards page.
Also listed on this page is the majority of AG Items produced and sold by Hallmark including Holiday ornaments, bookends, figurines, charms, cookie tins, and more.
A further category of exclusive American Girl items are the Special Giveaway items that were available only to girl attendees of specific Major League Baseball games on a first-come-first-serve basis.
Finally, this page lists the several exclusive AG Items such as special giveaway outfits, and those items only avaiable Online, at the AG Club [2004-2006] or at the AG Places in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles.
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American Girl Retired Items
- AG Doll Collecting - Retired Item Finder
- The row of names above are links to different sections of this page that give information about that girl's retired items. Most of the retired item pictures on this page are links to larger images of that item. These are provided as an aid in identifying the item and since they are no longer available these large images may be the closest thing to having these items. As far as availability of the discontinued outfits, accessory sets and furniture, most can be found via Ebay the online auction site, though some items have not appeared on Ebay for least the last year. The Ebay logo below links to an Ebay search for retired American Girl historical doll items. Each girl's name below links to a search for just that girl's retired items.
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American Doll Trading Cards
- AG Doll Collecting - Trading Cards
- This page depicts and describes the various sets of American Girl trading cards which were produced by Pleasant Company beginning in 1994, including complete checklists. Up through 2007, there are a total of about 918 different cards featuring all twelve American Girls. The different trading card packages, albums and boxed sets are also shown and described on this page.
The rows of card icons above link to the trading card pages of the twelve American Girls. The girls' names along the left side of the table shown below also link to their individual card pages.
The Ebay logo below links to an Ebay search for American Girl Trading Cards, Packs, Albums and Boxed Sets. These often sometimes come up for auction, but certain series are rarer and more expensive than others. Kit's 2001 set of cards #31-60, and Samantha and Addy's 1998 series are much harder to come by than any of the 1994 or 2002 card series and therefore at auction they typically fetch a higher cost.
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Kit Kittredge- An American Girl
My American Girl Dolls YouTube video
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poutine
Aug 22, 2009 @ 9:29 am | delete
- Thanks for posting the link to American Girl Place, I had never heard of it.
Sure would love to visit it one day soon.
Poutine
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eccles1
Oct 13, 2008 @ 10:10 am | delete
- Great lens for girls !!
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