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African American doll
Date: between 1937 and 1945
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.
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Bisque Doll Arm from the Jacob Creek Site, 14CS701
Date: 1880-1900
This doll arm was recovered from a farmstead in Chase County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2005. The doll arm is made of bisque porcelain and has a realistic skin-like matte finish. Bisque dolls were very popular during the late 1800s. The site was excavated in 1980 during the Emporia State University's archaeological field school.
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Bisque Doll from 14GR301
Date: Unknown
This bisque doll head and body was recovered from the Curry site in Greenwood County and donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 1984. The Curry site was a multicomponent (multiple occupations) site occupied periodically during the Archaic, Early Ceramic and Middle Ceramic Periods. However, this doll shows that there was also modern material recovered at the site. The doll had jointed arms and legs and may have once had a painted face and hair, though, if so, no trace remains.
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Cracker-Jack clown
Creator: Albert Schoenhut Company
Date: between 1905 and 1910
This Cracker-Jack clown has a jointed wooden body, molded head and hand-painted features. It was sold as an accessory set for the Humpty-Dumpty circus created by Albert Shoenhut.
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Doll
Date: 1886
Bisque doll with blond hair wearing a tan dress and stockings, leather shoes, and two beaded necklaces. Marked "166 2" on back of shoulders. Belonged to Helena Olivia Lassen (1878-1969) of Atchison. Her father emmigrated from Denmark in 1865, and the doll was sent to her by relatives still in Denmark when she was eight years old. The clothes were sewn by a relative in Denmark, and the necklaces were added by Helena.
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Doll and Figurine from 14RC410
Date: 1880-1930
These porcelain doll and figurine fragments were recovered at an archeological site in Rice County. The figurine is that of a woman holding a basket in the crook of her arm. The doll fragment is portion of a dimpled knee with a sock and blue shoe heel. The site is multicomponent (multiple occupations). Most of the artifacts come from the Little River focus of the Great Bend aspect occupation, whose people are ancestral to the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes. These two artifacts date to a later time, late 19th- to early 20th-century.
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Doll Arm from 14OT323
Date: 1880-1940
This bisque tie-on doll arm was recovered from the Ottawa County archeological site. The arm measures 2 1/4" long and, while difficult to ascertain, appears to represent a left arm and hand. The site probably marked the spot of a vanished farmstead. Archeologists from the Kansas Historical Society visited the site in 1993 during a Highway survey project.
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Doll Fragments from Constitution Hall State Historic Site, 14DO321
Date: 1856-1920
There were some sad children at Constitution Hall in Lecompton when their porcelain dolls were broken. The lower face, leg, and two arms with hands were once part of at least two different dolls. The smallest arm was moveable and the leg had a tie-on attachment style. All of the pieces were recovered in the summer and fall of 1988 when Kansas Historic Society archeologists excavated at the site, trying to trace construction history prior to renovation. Constitution Hall was constructed in 1855 and functioned in a variety of different roles. The Hall was designated a National Historical Landmark and listed in the National Register of Historic Places for its role in the 1857 Lecompton Constitution.
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Doll Fragments from Cottonwood Ranch, 14SD327
Date: 1889-1920
These doll fragments were recovered during the 2002 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school at the Cottonwood Ranch in Sheridan County. The fragments represent at least three different dolls. Shown are two upper faces, two different feet wearing ladies boots, a leg fragment, an arm, and two different hands. The ranch was established by Abraham Pratt from Yorkshire, England, in 1878 to raise sheep. Pratt's son, John Fenton Pratt and his family continued to raise sheep at the ranch until 1904. Cottonwood Ranch is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and is a State Historic Site.
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Doll Fragments from Fort Hays, 14EL301
Date: 1867-1889
These doll fragments were recovered from Fort Hays in Ellis County by Kansas Historical Society archeologists. The fragments represent four different dolls, all made of porcelain. Fort Hays was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
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Doll Fragments from the Hollenberg Pony Express Station, 14WH316
Date: 1857-1941
These china and bisque doll fragments were recovered from the 1991 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school at the Hollenberg Pony Express Station in Washington County. The fragments represent at least four different dolls. Shown are fragments of four faces, three different legs, and two arms. The site was the location of a Pony Express station, a stop on the Oregon-California trail, a post office, a blacksmith shop, and a farm with barns and other out buildings. The site was purchased by the Kansas Legislature in 1941 and is in the National Register of Historic Places.
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Doll Fragments from the Thomas Johnson/Henry Williams Dugout Site, 14GH102
Date: 1877-1910
These five porcelain doll fragments were recovered from the Thomas Johnson/Henry Williams Dugout site during the 2006 excavations by Washburn University and the 2007 Kansas Archeology Training Program. The collections from Washburn University were later donated to the Kansas Historical Society. The fragments include a portion of black hair & eyebrows along with a portion of the doll's face, a fragment of a doll's left hand and three pink cheek fragments. This domestic site was related to the settlement of Nicodemus, Kansas, an all black community in western Kansas.
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Doll Head from Fort Hays, 14EL301
Date: 1867-1889
This china doll head was excavated in 1966 at Fort Hays in Ellis County. China doll heads are described by their hair style. This doll, with her center parted hair and comb marks on the side most resembles those of the 1850s and 1860s. Fort Hays was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and is a State Historic Site.
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Doll Legs from Fort Hays, 14EL301
Date: 1867-1889
These doll legs from five dolls were recovered from excavations at Fort Hays in Ellis County. Shown are a porcelain and bisque complete and lower legs with either ladies high heel shoes, a flat shoe, or barefoot. Most have a tie-on attachment style, but two were joined to the doll's body by holes and were moveable. Fort Hays was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and is a State Historic Site.
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French Yerri doll
Creator: Hansi
Date: 1918
A French Yerri doll purchased by a U.S. nurse during WWI. The doll is wearing a traditional Alsatian costume and a black fur hat. This Yerri doll was created in 1918 by French artist Hansi, to commemorate the recapture of Alsace at the end of WWI. The donor, Martha E. Keaton, purchased this particular doll while she was stationed in Langres, France as a nurse in 1918 during WWI. Keaton served at Base Hospital 53 in Langres until returning to Kansas in 1919.
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Frozen Charlotte Doll from the Martindale Cabin, 14GR332
Date: 1857-1914
This nearly complete Frozen Charlotte doll was recovered from the Martindale Cabin in Greenwood County. Frozen Charlotte dolls, a type of china doll, were made from 1850 to the 1920s. The doll takes its name and form from an American folk ballad called "Fair Charlotte" and a poem by Seba Smith called "A Corpse Going to a Ball." In these tellings a young Miss Charlotte's vanity over her party dress causes her to refuse a cloak and this results in her freezing to death on the carriage ride to the party. This Frozen Charlotte doll measures 1 1/2" tall, has her black hair pulled back into a bun or in a snood, has black eyes and eyebrows and red cheeks and lips. The Martindale Cabin was built of stone for William Martindale in 1857 and was occupied by the Martindale family until 1869. Later the cabin was used for both living and storage purposes.
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Frozen Charlotte Dolls from Fort Hays, 14EL301
Date: 1867-1889
These Frozen Charlotte dolls were recovered during excavations at historic Fort Hays in Ellis County by Kansas Historical Society archeologists. Frozen Charlottes, a type of china doll, were made from 1850 to the 1920s. The doll takes its name and form from an American folk ballad called "Fair Charlotte" and a poem by Seba Smith called "A Corpse Going to a Ball." In these tellings a young Miss Charlotte's vanity over her party dress causes her to refuse a cloak and this results in her freezing to death on the carriage ride to the party. The taller doll measures 2 7/8" and the shorter just 15/16" tall. Fort Hays was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and is a State Historic Site.
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Kansas Centennial doll
Date: between 1960 and 1961
The Kansas Antique Doll Club designed this doll for the Kansas Centennial in 1961. The doll was meant to represent dolls carried by children traveling through Kansas at the time of early statehood. This soft-bodied doll has porcelain limbs and head and wears a striped brown silk dress with lace trim, white petticoat and bloomers. There is a molded sunflower necklace at the doll's throat. The Kansas Centennial inspired the manufacture of many souvenirs like this.
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Kansas Centennial doll
Date: 1961
Kansas Centennial doll with eyes that open and close. She wears a green felt hat, a fringed tan leather tunic, brown felt pants, and leather moccasins. Dark brown leather lacing and a belt secure a white plastic knife and a bundle of sticks to her sides. The doll was made in 1961 to celebrate Kansas's Centennial.
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Little Orphan Annie shadowettes
Date: between 1931 and 1942
Six paper Little Orphan Annie Shadowettes made between 1931 and 1942. Little Orphan Annie was a daily syndicated newspaper comic strip from 1924 to 1968. The strip followed the adventures of Annie, her dog Sandy, benefactor Daddy Warbucks and secondary characters. It was made into a radio show (1931-1942), two films (1932 &1938), and a Broadway show (1977).
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Movin Groovin Crissy doll
Creator: Ideal Toy Corporation
Date: 1971
This plastic doll has "real" hair that can be "grown" from a short bob to long. Her arms, legs, waist, and head move. It was made by the Ideal Toy Corporation who developed the mechanism (a knob on the doll's back) to wind and unwind the doll's hair. This doll was owned by a Topeka, Kansas doll collector.
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Porcelain Doll from 14MY362
Date: 1850-1900
This small porcelain doll was collected at an Early Ceramic period camp site with intrusions of historic material. The artifacts from the Montgomery County site were donated in 1975 to the Kansas Historical Society. The doll, missing her head, one foot, and most of her two arms is dressed in a dress, pantaloons, and a pinafore.
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Porcelain Doll Parts from the Last Chance Store, 14MO367
Date: 1857-1971
Two doll parts, among several, were recovered from the excavations at the Last Chance Store in Council Grove during the 2016 Kansas Archeological Training Program. Both pieces are made of porcelain, but they do not come from the same doll. The foot, possibly clad in a shoe or boot has a shiny glaze. The left hand, with a complete thumb, but broken fingers, is unglazed. The Last Chance Store was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
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Streethearts doll
Creator: Streethearts Inc.
Date: between 1991 and 1995
This plush doll made of synthetic materials was created by Streethearts, Inc. of Wichita, Kansas between 1991 and 1995. For each "homeless" doll they sold, the organization donated $5 to Salvation Army programs that aid homeless children. This doll was owned by a Topeka, Kansas doll collector.
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Toys from 14CT368
Date: 1895-1930
These toys were recovered from a Chautauqua County farmstead during a 1995 salvage project by Kansas Historical Society archeologists. Shown is a porcelain doll head with blue eyes and traces of black hair, a porcelain doll arm, a cast iron vehicle driver wearing a cap and with hands positioned to hold a steering wheel, three fragments of a porcelain toy tea set, and a plastic doll or figurine with "JAPAN" on the back.
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