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Santa and Children on a Coffee Advertisement

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising greeting card which reads "Handsome Christmas Card in Every package of Lion Coffee, November 5 to Christmas Day." The card depicts Santa Claus ...
Photograph

Girls Playing Dress Up

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Description: Two young girls dressed up as women in front of a photographer's backdrop. The girl on the left holds a doll while the girl on the right pushes her doll in...
Photograph

Two Girls with Decorated Baby Carriages

Date: 07 05 1944
Description: Adults are standing around two girls with decorated baby carriages before a Fourth of July parade. There is a house, yard and automobile in the background.
Postcard

Christmas Greetings

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday postcard with a white and metallic gold border depicting Santa Claus handing a doll to a girl as a boy is looking on from the background. The child...
Book or Pamphlet

Emerson, Talcott & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back of the catalog cover. Illustration on front shows a group of children looking and laughing at dog that has been costumed in a hat, cape and ...
Photograph

Conklin Park Parade

Date: 07 08 1954
Description: Peggy Williams winks at the photographer while pushing her doll in a baby buggy during the children's parade at Conklin Park. She is wearing her mother's s...
Photograph

Dressed Up in Costume

Date: 1940
Description: Shirley and Robert Krueger dressed up as Native Americans and wearing feather headdresses. Shirley is wearing a shawl with a baby doll swaddled in between,...
Photograph

Works Progress Administration Handicraft Project Ethnic Dolls

Date: 1935
Description: Four dolls are dressed in costumes of unidentified origin. The dolls are wooden and do not possess facial features. The dolls have been posed as two pairs.
Photograph

Mrs. Ruth Pochmann's Doll Exhibit

Date: 1961
Description: Three dolls are posed together. One is wearing a veil. Caption reads: "19th Century dolls owned by Mrs. Henry A. [Ruth] Pochmann, Madison, in an exhibit in...
Photograph

Four Dolls

Date: 1935
Description: Four dolls are posed together. Two porcelain dolls are seated on a small wicker chair, and the chair is flanked by two other dolls. A caption reads: "Doll ...
Photograph

Three Girls with their Dolls

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Description: Three girls are posing holding their four dolls. A caption identifies them as: Marguerite H.B. Dennis, Bessie, Charlotte Zaninggers.
Photograph

Mrs. Ruth Pochmann's Doll Exhibit

Date: 1961
Description: Five dolls are posed together. The smallest — an African-American doll — is seated in a miniature chair. The caption reads: "19th Century dolls owned by Mr...
Photograph

Mrs. Ruth Pochmann's Doll Exhibit

Date: 1961
Description: Five dolls are posed together. Two are wearing veils and a third is wearing a hat. Photo caption reads: "19th Century dolls owned by Mrs Henry A. [Ruth] Po...
Photograph

Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Farmer Stevens Doll Exhibit

Date: 1909
Description: Sixteen dolls are posed together, with some seated and some standing. The caption reads: "Dolls owned by Mrs. Breese J. [Mary Elizabeth Farmer] Stevens, 40...

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