This sub-series includes compiled reference materials, product line spreadsheets, published articles, and videos related to the history of dolls and doll collecting. Materials consist of magazine and newspaper clippings, VHS cassettes, digital files, printed spreadsheets, and handwritten notes.

Of interest in box 5 folders 3-5 is a draft and notes for "History of Design, Marketing, and Advertising of Mattel's Barbie Dolls," Thesis by Jana Susan Paley.

Also of interest, AV box 2, disk 1 includes several German Barbie videos: "Marsch ins Kinderzimmer," Anatomie der Puppe Barbie, (March into the Children's Room, Anatomy of the Barbie Doll), 1967/68, black/white, made by HR (Hessischer Rundfunk); Die Welt der Barbie (The World of Barbie), ca. 1968; Rückblende Barbie (Barbie Flashback), 35 Years, made by N3 (Nordeutscher Rundfunk), starring Carol Spencer, Ruth Handler, Joe Blitman; Traumwelt der Puppen (Dolls' Dreamworld) "Character dolls," by Ivan Steiger, Munich, ZDF (Zweites deutches Fernsehen)