Grace Drayton
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Grace Drayton was an illustrator
Illustrator
An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...

 who created popular period comics Dolly Dimples
Dolly Dimples (comic strip)
Dolly Dimples was a syndicated newspaper comic strip by Grace Drayton....

and The Pussycat Princess. She created the "Campbell Soup Kids" advertising campaign http://www.plasticclub.org/drayton.html and is probably best known for her popular Dolly Dingle paper dolls in the women's magazine Pictorial Review
Pictorial Review
Pictorial Review is a magazine which first appeared in September, 1899. The magazine was originally designed to showcase dress patterns of William Paul Ahnelt's American Fashion Company. By the late 1920s it was one of the largest of the "women's magazines"....

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Christened Viola Grace Gebbie, in 1900 she married Theodore Wiederseim and started signing her work "Grace Wiederseim." In 1911, Grace divorced Wiedersheim and married W. Drayton, and started signing her work Grace Drayton. She divorced Drayton in 1923 but continued to sign her work "Grace Drayton" or "G G Drayton."http://lambiek.net/artists/d/drayton_g.htm

She was an early member of Philadelphia's Plastic Club. http://www.plasticclub.org/index.shtml

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