Forgotten Dolls -- a lensography of dolls and doll collecting

Hittys are wooden dolls based on the doll in the book Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field (the 1930 Newberry Award winning book). The original Hitty doll upon whom the book is based is six and one-quarter inches tall and carved from white...

Izannah Walker (1817 to 1888) of Bristol, Rhode Island was one of the earliest known female dollmakers in America. Her cloth dolls were all handmade by herself and her sisters, and each doll possesses a distinct and recognizable style. They are three...

Becassine is the earliest female comic strip protagonist. She first appeared on 02 February, 1905 in the French children's magazine La Semaine de Suzette ("Suzette's Week"). Becassine is a young provincial Breton girl as viewed by the sophisticated P...

Bleuette, produced by the Societe Francaise de fabrication de Bebes et Jouets (SFBJ), was the mascot of the French magazine La Semaine de Suzette ("Suzette's Week") from 1905 to 1960. The original version of the Bleuette doll was a premium for subscr...

Super Dollfies are resin ball-jointed dolls designed and cast by Volks of Japan. The first Super Dollfie was created in 1998, based on the structure of antique French and German fashion dolls. The ball-jointed structure of the bodies allows for treme...

Kokeshi are wooden peg-style dolls. They are handmade from cherry or dogwood and painted with a simple facial design and a floral design on the body to represent robes. Once painted, they are sealed with a layer of lacquer or wax to protect the desig...

Matryoshka dolls are set of dolls designed to nest one inside another. They are cut in half at the waist to be opened. The original set of matryoshka was originally created in Russia in 1890 by Sergei Maliutin and Vasiliy Zvezdochkin, inspired by Ja...

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