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1840-1860
GUSN-3045
A homemade rag doll, of cotton fabric with hand-painted face; black bead hair with cotton body; two fingered hands; black velvet covered feet; wears a brown print cotton dress (c. 1855-1865), a whitework petticoat and pantaloons
dolls
cotton (textile)
glass (material)
velvet (fabric weave)
Cotton
Glass
Velvet
DOLL
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
10.5 x 4.5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1536
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