Original American Dolls and Their Designer, Mrs. John Duncan, St. Joseph News-Press March 15, 1936
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AM1976.35.1
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Original American Dolls and Their Designer, Mrs. John Duncan, St. Joseph News-Press March 15, 1936
Newspaper photo: Mrs. John Duncan1027 Messanie street and some of her original dolls. She first made them by bending pipestem cleaners into forms of doll figures, which she then padded and dressed the dolls to represent various story book characters. Later she created a doll by combining various colored glass and wooden beads, buttons, odd bits of metal and other materials.
Newspaper photo: Bead dolls and pipe cleaner dolls
Newspaper photo: Mrs. John A. Duncan
Mrs. Duncan has been honored by the Doll Collectors of America, Inc. Some of her dolls have been placed in a special collection of original American dolls in the Boston Museum, Boston MA as permanent exhibit.
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