Our Museum is growing, and we are proud to be able to share the story of dolls with the world. But we do still have gaps in the collection that you may be able to help fill.

We have an amazing museum filled with wonderful dolls, but there are still gaps and genres that are missing. We are always looking to add dolls to the collection to fill in these areas. We will always consider dolls that fit our mission statement and requirements.

Gifts of artifacts are tax-deductible as allowed by law. For those wishing to make a gift(s), please contact the Collection Committee through the UFDC central office: Photographs and descriptions are of great help in always assessing generous offers.

 

PLAY DOLLS

• German Renaissance molded figure
• 17thc English wooden
• 18th c wax
• 18^th - 19^th c French carton
• Early 19th-century peg wooden
• Pre 1860 Continental chinas of French, German, and Bohemian origin
• 1854 “Fanny Gray” paper doll
• 19th-century paper dolls
• Rubber dolls both 19th & 20th c (I. R. Comb, “Amosandra” Sun Rubber, etc.)
• American mid-19th century Izannah Walker
• Cloth doll "Maggie Bessie by Pfohl Sister's of North Carolina
• Solomon Hoffmann composition (First American Doll Factory), 1890s
• Billikin
• Springfield Wooden dolls
• Beecher Baby
• Wellington doll
• Mignonette, so-called French All bisque doll.
• A T bébé
• “Daisy” all original
• Lady doll, 1900-1910 (Simon & Halbig, Kestner)
• Character Dolls early to mid-20th
• Art Dolls for children (SFBJ)
• AM bisque Just Me
• Munich Art dolls
• “Wilma” black Kathe Kruse
• Lenci
• Celluloid early 20th
• WPA dolls
• Studio Sasha
• Plush body Billiken (hopefully a 16” one)
• Composition Copies of German characters
• Copy of German dolly faces, ball-jointed bodies
• 1910 Campbell Kids and other Drayton characters
• Uneeda Biscuit Kid – other compo advertising dolls
• Entertainers – Charlie Chaplin, John Bunny Jackie Cogan, Baby Peggy
• Raleigh dolls
• Mibs
• Compo Bye Lo – Bye Lo look-alikes
• Grace Corry dolls
• Wood segmented dolls - Joseph Kallus (incl. Betty Boop, Band Major)
• Walt Disney compo characters such as Pinocchio, various sizes, etc.
• “Betsy-Wetsy”
• Mariquita Perez doll in carton piedra and her striped trunk
• Ideal “Sara Lee”
• NASB Muffie
• #2 Barbie
• 8" American Character Betsy McCall
• Mme Alexander vinyl “Cynthia”
• Maggie Face Alexander in street clothing, non-character
• American Character Toodles
• Pedigree Sindy doll
• American Character Tressy doll
• Tiffany Taylor doll by Ideal
• Scooba Doo by Mattel

 

MECHANICAL DOLLS

• Phonograph doll (Edison, Lioret, etc.)
• Steiner Walker
• Swimmer

 

EXHIBITION/CHARITY

• Japanese Friendship
• Local charity such as schools, hospitals, churches
• World’s Fairs and related expositions

 

ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Archival manufacturing materials related to well-known doll makers

 

COLLECTOR DOLLS

Artist dolls

• NIADA - especially early members
• Dorothy Heizer
• Wee Paulson
• ODACA – especially early members