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Librarian, NMAH Branch Library,Smithsonian
Ms. Comer: you might want to try a recent book by Miriam
Formanek-Brunell entitled "Made to play house: dolls and the
commercialization of American Girlhood, 1830-1930.Someone from the
curatorial staff here told me that she was mainly interested in Chase
dolls or soft-body examples. But during her Fellowship here she did a
lot of digging into German and German-American manufacturers of dolls,
and her book is, as I understand, a fairly thoroughgoing social history
of doll manufacturing through gender analysis.Also try the Strong Museum
in Rochester, NY. I'm in charge of the trade literature here and we get
questions on dolls fairly often and i'm sorry to say doll manufacturers
are not well-represented in the trade lit collection, and only a few
catalogs in the curatorial divisions.
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