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Dolls of the 20th Century - A Celebration in Pictures and HistoriesFavorite dolls may fade with time - our love for them never will.The little old-fashioned corn husk doll featured in the logo of DollKind has been in my family for so long, no one exactly remembers where she came from. Golden with age, her floss hair grown flyaway, her leafy skirts more than a little rough around the edges, this tiny doll has survived years of loving play. She is a doll whose character is self-evident, and when I hold her in my hand, I hold a touchstone for my childhood. I remember the fragrance of oatmeal cookies baking in the kitchen. I remember bright fall trees outside my window and all the happy days of caring for my doll family.
Coming Soon - More Stories of the Favorite Dolls You Played With!Dolls of Every Description! I was one of four girls in my family, so our house was literally overflowing with dolls for years and years. Soft Holly Hobby Dolls in their cheery sunbonnets. Pudgy Kewpie Dolls with their big laughing eyes. Lovely Effanbee Dolls and Ginny Dolls with wonderful doll clothes. Inexpensive but oh-so-huggable baby dolls I saved for months and months to bring home to increase my always-growing doll family. There were stately china dolls and porcelain dolls that you had to handle with care, contrasting with the handmade rag dolls and Raggedy Anns that stood up well to rough and tumble times. And then there were the Madame Alexander Dolls.Perhaps no other kind of dolls in history have inspired the degree of love and admiration that Madame Alexanders have. The innocent, friendly faces and beautifully detailed clothing of Madame Alexander's dolls makes each one a true treasure. I felt so happy and elegant as a little girl playing with the 4 Little Women and Marmee, with Scarlet O'Hara and Betsy Ross, with Greece and Spain and Denmark. Over the years we collected a fair number of these charming dolls, but Madame Alexander dolls are like chocolates - you always want one more! My mother especially loved this heralded dollmaker's baby dolls, always remembering her own girlhood adoration of them. For generations, Madame Alexander has been making the dolls that deserve to be called "my favorite doll" by children around the world. Today's most avid Doll Collectors all began with that first doll Do you remember your first doll? Was it a hand-me-down gift to the new baby from an older sibling? A homemade rag doll from a loving aunt? A pink checked Lolly Dolly from the Five and Dime? Perhaps you may even be lucky enough to still have your first doll, or perhaps it is simply the love you felt for that first darling companion that has led to your grown-up delight in wonderful dolls. I want to celebrate that delight with you and I hope the pages of DollKind will help to bring back priceless memories, teach you new facts about fabulous dolls, and assist you in your search for that next special doll."Dolls are not like us; we are alive as soon as we are born, but dolls are not really alive until
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Greetings! This is me when I was 3. And, as you can see from the photo, I was
very happy when playing with my dolls. Decades later, dolls still hold a fond place in
my heart. I have created DollKind in order to publish my doll history research articles
and to share my enjoyment of dolls with you.
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