• Betsy McCall's Wardrobe by Lisa Heino.   Lisa published her book herself and originally sold it for $38 but she no longer has any copies available. If you want to encourage her to reprint it, you can write to Lisa at lisa@austin.cc.tx.us. This book lists all the clothing produced for the 8 inch Betsy McCall doll by various categories: type of outfit, type of cloth, type of color. It also gives the prices that you might expect to get selling some of  these items. At the back there are several pages of colored photos of dolls wearing the clothing and a list telling you what each photo is.  Because it is so well organized and indexed it is extremely helpful to collectors trying to identify an outfit.

• Betsy McCall, by Marci Van Ausdall, Hobby House Press. Came out in November, 1999.  This is a wonderful, extremely complete book on all types of Betsy McCall dolls with tons of beautiful color photographs of her and all her outfits.  The 8" Betsy  information fills about half the book.

• Zillner, Dian Dolls and Accessories of the 1950's has several pages of Betsy photos and descriptions, including furniture.

• Judd, Polly and Pam, Hard Plastic Dolls (3rd Revised Ed.) has a few pages on Betsy with some nice B&W photos.

• The September 1999 Dolls magazine, p. 40,  has an article on the "First Betsy McCall  national convention, held May 21-23 at the Sheraton Uptown Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico." It includes a photo of 14 8-inch Betsys in original outfits. This was organized by JoEllen Brown with participation from many others including the Robert Tonner company. The year 2000 one will be in Dallas, Texas May 5-7-- I'll add more details as soon as I have them!

• Judy Izen is working on an American Character dolls book, tentatively scheduled to be out in Fall, 2001. She is looking for good quality 35MM photos of American Character dolls, so if you have some you would like to share with her please contact her at Jizenres@aol.com.

Betsy McCall Clubs

The 2nd Annual Betsy McCall Convention was held May 5-7, 2000, near Dallas Texas. In 2001 it will be at the Sheraton in Arlington Heights - suburb to Chicago.  However, this year it was filled by Tonner Doll Club members before it even opened to the public. The 2001 convention will be May 3-6 (1st weekend in May) for 4 days - early check-in on Thursday, with 2 full regular days (one devoted to Betsy and one to Tonner Doll Company) and some activities on Sunday as well.

•  "Betsy's Fan Club" has a newsletter for Betsy McCall, c/o Marci Van Ausdall at P.O. Box 946, Quincy, CA (916) 283-2770. This is Marci Van Ausdall's Betsy McCall Fan Club and membership costs $16 a year, which includes the club newsletter and other useful information for collectors. You can write to Marci at dreams@psln.com if you have further questions about joining her club. She also sells on ebay (www.ebay.com) as moodiblue.

• The Robert Tonner Collector Club is listed at 77 Cornell St., P.O. Box 1187, Kingston NY 12401 (914) 339-9537 and their web page is www.roberttonner.com (includes a link to the club). Their email is info@roberttonner.com. Members receive a newsletter, invitations to special Betsy-related events, and opportunities to purchase the club doll, Jane, and special outfits for her. There is also a club e-mail list.

• There are at least two Betsy McCall clubs on Yahoo - Go to www.yahoo.com and look for clubs, and search on "Betsy McCall"  or click on Betsy McCall Dolls for information on the doll club and Betsy's Travels for the Betsy's travel club link.

• There is a free Betsy McCall E-mail List  you can subscribe to!

Other Links

The Robert Tonner Doll Co. produces a modern 14" Betsy McCall

Many great outfits are shown on Jackie Anzuini's web page for Betsy.

Joan Dawson has a site with information on all types of vintage Betsys and her paper dolls. It also has links to other great Betsy sites!

Marni  Wilson has a great site "Presenting Betsy McCall."
 

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