Barbie and Friends ID Guide

This identification guide is intended to be used as a QUICK REFERENCE guide only. It includes a sampling of the many Barbie and family dolls made by Mattel before 1976. The photographs include close up head shots, so you may identify WHO your doll is and approximately what year she was manufactured.
In most cases, the doll name, hair colors, eye color, original outfit and country of manufacture are given. I did not include all of the markings available on each doll, since the year on the back of the doll is the date of patent/copyright registration, NOT the year of manufacture. This is the most confusing issue to anyone trying to identify the year their doll was made. The following is a list of countries in which dolls were typically manufactured for those years:
1959-1972 JAPAN
1968-1970, 1989-1990 MEXICO
1970-1987 HONG KONG
1970-1987 TAIWAN
1973-1978 KOREA
1978-1988 PHILIPPINES

FROM: http://www.dolls4play.com/BARBID.HTM#Barbie%20#1