Doll owned by Clementine Roundtree Cottee and Josephine English Church: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Baby doll wearing a white cotton dress, two knit socks, a cotton undergarment and a knit cap. The dress is fastened with a safety pin and the cap ties with a green ribbon. The doll has blue glass eyes, rosy lips and cheeks, and short brown hair coming out from underneath the bonnet.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: ca. 1920
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Clementine Cottee, American, 1900 - 1939
• Subject of: Josephine Church, American
• Medium: porcelain, ceramic, glass, metal, cotton, and synthetic fiber
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 4 3/8 × 12 1/4 × 19 1/2 in. (11.1 × 31.1 × 49.5 cm)
• Place used: Lyles Station, Gibson County, Indiana, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Children
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Domestic life
• Topic: Families
• Object number: 2012.155.1a-f
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Lyles Station Historic Preservation Corporation
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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