The 1937 movie Heidi starring Shirley Temple inspired this doll. My friend has a vintage doll collection. I photographed her dolls in 2015 and had a jigsaw puzzle created from one of the photos.
Dolls prompt mixed responses.
They creep some people out.
Others collect and display them.
Did you have a special doll?
In 2010 I photographed granddaughter Maura looking at Aunt Linda’s doll collection
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How about a caption contest for the first photo?
This photo was taken in NYC 2011 but in the mid fifties this teeny elephant assisted my sister in making me stop crying. She’d be in charge (babysitting) and I’d be sad my parents went out. She would make this elephant appear and then she’d make it fly away and disappear. I’m not sure how many times she repeated this act but I remember believing it was magic.
What is it?
“Dial as you would your telephone?”
It’s a Ken+ Add machine, that’s what. From the 1950’s. Manufactured in Duluth Minnesota You can see it’s definitely handheld.
At the Ohio History Center last Friday.
Notice the colored aluminum tumblers. How about those drapes?
Becky B Indecisive Flight #Januarylight
At the Ohio History Connection today.
Ozzie and Harriet Show playing on a TV in the Lustron Home.
I can only imagine how heavy this television would be should one try to lift it.
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Becky B of Winchester has posted Bars of Sunlight for the #JanuaryLight challenge today.
My sister thinks we got this hand puppet at the circus. It was before I was 5. Some people have a fear of clowns(coulrophobia)
There is an Emmett Kelly Museum in Sedan, Kansas -born there in 1898. You don’t hear the word “hobo” anymore.
