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Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Dolls
General material designation
Object
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Level of description
Series
Repository
Reference code
CA RBD RS001-VII
Edition area
Edition statement
Edition statement of responsibility
Class of material specific details area
Statement of scale (cartographic)
Statement of projection (cartographic)
Statement of coordinates (cartographic)
Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
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between approximately 1787 and 1960 (Creation)
Physical description area
Physical description
approximately 65 objects : mixed media
Publisher's series area
Title proper of publisher's series
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Archival description area
Custodial history
Scope and content
Series consists of dolls and related objects from the 18th through 20th centuries, including those in china, bisque, wax, papier-mâché, wood, cloth, felt, ivory, metal, wire, and other materials. The dolls represent a range of geographic origins, including Germany, France, England, the United States, China, Russia Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, Italy, Basque Spain, Sweden, Yugoslavia, Greece, Bermuda, Canada, and Indigenous peoples of North America. The series includes specific items such as mechanical dolls and theatrical and literary characters. Several dolls depict regional dress and national costumes. Related objects include doll clothing and trunks, doll bedding, doll china plates, a doll’s cradle, a Punch and Judy show set, a Chinese theatre scene with lantern, birchbark quill-decorated furniture, and an envelope of paper doll clothes.