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Handmade African American cotton cloth doll. The doll has short, black yarn hair, and her facial features are embroidered. She wears a simple light green cotton dress. The donor received the doll when she was a child from an African American neighbor. Her family lived in Topeka at the time of her birth in 1937. They left Topeka for California in 1946. She believes that she received the doll between the time of her birth and her fourth birthday.
Date: between 1937 and 1945
Item Number: 221046
Call Number: 2010.27.1
KSHS Identifier: 2010.27.1
Collections - Museum
Date - 1930s
Date - 1940s
Objects and Artifacts - Recreational Artifacts - Toy - Doll
People - African Americans
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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