Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1955.232.0197Description
Girls with dolls to give away, Christmas, 1931. One copy. Peggy Bates, Signa Gustafson, Neve Jernigan, Elsie Kramish, Rogene Peterson, Anna Mae Perkins, Virginia Breeze, Mary Kay Wolf, Ruth Cooper, Nancy Romick, Betty June Matson, Loretta Messenger.
Update 2008: Black and white print. Snapshot. Pasted to white board . Image of twelve young girls holding dolls posed in front of a pharmacy counter . Girls are all bundled up in coats and hats, one or two with mittens. Each girl is holding a unique baby doll, two in front row center are in bassinets.
Written on emulsion in black ink, top center: "Xmas Day 1931 [corrected from 1932]."
Written on original negative in lower left: "Meyers Photo."
Mounted on mildly acidic cardboard. Adhesive wrinkling edges top and bottom. Emulsion cracked in lower left. Emulsion surface soiled. Ink impacting emulsion at top.
One (1) 5 x 7 black and white copy print. Written on back in blue ink: "Doll contest" "Rendle's Drug Store-corner 5th and Cedar" "Christmas Day-Dec. 25, 1932." "Left to Right"
"Back row-Neva Jerrigan, Elsie Kramish, 2nd Peggy Bates, Signe Gustafson, Rogine Peterson 1st, Anna Mae Perkins".
"Front Row:-Virginia Breeze-tied for 5th-Mary Kay Wolf, Ruth Cooper 4th, Nancy Romick, 3rd, Betty June Matson 6th, Loretta Messenger".
One 8 1/2 x 11 black and white scanned enlargement.Collection
Photograph Collection