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| Learn about the creator of The American Girls Collection and her significant philanthropic contributions to the arts, education, historic preservation. |
| Date: | 07 17 1957 |
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| Description: | A young woman helps a girl make toy dolls out of cloth. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for J.F. Seiberling, manufacturer of agricultural equipment, featuring an engraving of boys marching under a benner of "Vic... |
| Date: | 12 17 1930 |
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| Description: | View of a Christmas Add-a-Toy Mountain in the RKO Orpheum theater lobby, with a girl adding a doll to the mountain of toys. The toys are on and around a ta... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop showing Bertha Gesell washing and hanging doll clothes. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A family is posed in front of a wood frame house. A boy or girl with a doll is sitting with a dog on the porch roof. A man holding an accordion is sitting ... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | A family sits around a table on which is a wooden box with a key lock and a hinged lid, possibly with a mirror inside the lid. (A jewelry box? a music box?... |
| Date: | 02 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Mable Sawtelle, a Red Cross nurses' aide, tends to baby Sara in a crib with doll. Poster on wall reads: "Rollier demonstrated the value of heliotherapy in ... |
| Date: | 03 07 1947 |
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| Description: | Isora Wilson, 432 N. Murray Street, has a collection of turnip dolls that she has made to resemble Charles Dickens' characters Pickwick and Scrooge. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a girl, in a dress with a sash around the waist, standing with her hand on a wooden fence near a doll sitting on the ground in front of ... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of three children posing in front of a painted backdrop. Two children are standing, and one holds an umbrella and the other a doll. The oth... |
| Date: | 11 27 1946 |
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| Description: | Helen Weinstein, left, and Donna Grossman, observe a special Christmas season exhibit in the State Historical Museum featuring two life-sized dolls in a Ch... |
| Date: | 04 14 1948 |
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| Description: | Two Washington school students looking at a doll collection belonging to Judy Maher that is on display at the school. The girls are Karen Love and Janice J... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a German party thrown by the junior and senior class at Menomonie High School. Students are dressed as famous German figures or in tradit... |
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| Description: | An elderly woman sits with a young girl holding a doll for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. The woman wears an elaborately decorated coat ... |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of a young girl wearing a dress and holding a doll in front of a painted backdrop. The girl stands and rests her arm on a stuffed chair w... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior view, with desks in the foreground, of an elementary classroom decorated with a Christmas tree near the blackboard, and other holiday decorations,... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A decorated Christmas tree sits on a tabletop, possibly in the home of Frederick King Conover. Toys, including dolls, books, miniature furniture, cover tab... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A decorated Christmas tree displayed on a tabletop in a living room with toys and books displayed in front of it, possibly in the home of Frederick King Co... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Christmas tree on a tabletop display in a living room, possibly in the home of Frederick King Conover. There are toys on the table and a small chair with m... |
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