Object Details
- Sperry, Portia Howe
- Description
- Portia Sperry designed, produced, and sold this cloth doll with the help of a network of local farmwomen in her rural Indiana community in the early 1930s. The Abigail doll was dressed in the print dress, apron, and sunbonnet of a pioneer woman and was the first of two dolls the women created. A resourceful entrepreneur, Sperry persuaded the Marshall Field department store in Chicago, IL to sell the dolls and the Quaker Oat company to donate boxes for shipping them. Her efforts brought thousands of dollars to the women of Brown County, Indiana during the Great Depression.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Susan Popp
- 1930-1939
- ID Number
- 2014.0262.01
- catalog number
- 2014.0262.01
- accession number
- 2014.0262
- Object Name
- doll
- Measurements
- overall: 20 in x 9 in; 50.8 cm x 22.86 cm
- place made
- United States: Indiana, Brown
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1590924
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746af-84ef-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
