FREE: Vintage Dionne quintuplets Photo

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Dionne Qunituplets NEA Service Inc. Photo, 1935 in Collectibles , Photographic Images , Antique Pre-1940 , measures 8 3/8 inches x 3 7/8 inches. has a small tear on the corner on the left at the top (piece inside the envelope) and splits on the left side and on the bottom left and 3 on the right and one on the top.Also has some creasing in the photo


The girls were used in all kinds of advertisements, including those for Madame Alexander dolls, Quaker oats, Palmolive liquids, Bee Hive golden syrup, toothpaste, war bonds. While tourist parking and admission to the Quintland hospital were free, a store there generated millions of dollars for the province of Ontario, at times keeping the province itself from going bankrupt. The funds were generated through souvenirs such as postcards, dishes, and the Dionne dolls (which are still widely traded today online as well as in the newsletter of the Dionne Quintuplet fan club). Souvenir stands cropped up near their home selling fertility stones — taken from the farm — for 50 cents each; even their father sold them. The quintuplets celebrated holidays early so photographs of them carving pumpkins for Halloween or sitting on Santa's lap could be sold to newspapers and printed on the holiday.