Object Details
- unknown
- Description
- Portia Sperry designed this cloth doll in 1933, which she named after Abraham Lincoln’s mother Nancy Hanks and dressed in a print dress, apron, and sunbonnet. This was the second doll she designed, produced, and sold with a network of local farmwomen in her rural Indiana community during the Great Depression. A charismatic 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mary M. Seubert
- 1930s
- ID Number
- 2008.0173.01
- accession number
- 2008.0173
- catalog number
- 2008.0173.01
- Object Name
- doll
- Object Type
- dolls
- toys
- Physical Description
- cotton (doll covering material)
- batten (doll stuffing material)
- cotton (dress material)
- cotton (apron material)
- cotton (bonnet material)
- wool blend (shawl material)
- cotton (corset material)
- Measurements
- doll: 12 in x 4 1/2 in x 2 in; 30.48 cm x 11.43 cm x 5.08 cm
- place made
- United States
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Cultures & Communities
- American Enterprise
- National Museum of American History
- classified
- Toys
- Children
- Record ID
- nmah_1409051
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-6164-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
