Nancy Hanks Doll (Abigail Doll)
date: label: date made
content: 1930s
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: Portia Sperry designed this cloth doll in 1933, which she named after Abraham Lincoln’s mother Nancy Hanks and dressed in a print dress, apron, and sunbonnet. This was the second doll she designed, produced, and sold with a network of local farmwomen in her rural Indiana community during the Great Depression. A charismatic entrepreneur, Sperry persuaded the Marshall Field department store in Chicago, IL to sell the dolls and the Quaker Oat company to donate boxes for shipping them. Her efforts brought thousands of dollars to the women of Brown County, Indiana.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: classified
content: Toys
label: classified
content: Children
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: American Enterprise
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mary M. Seubert
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2008.0173.01
label: accession number
content: 2008.0173
label: catalog number
content: 2008.0173.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: doll
label: Object Type
content: dolls
label: Object Type
content: toys
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (doll covering material)
label: Physical Description
content: batten (doll stuffing material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (dress material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (apron material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (bonnet material)
label: Physical Description
content: wool blend (shawl material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (corset material)
label: Measurements
content: doll: 12 in x 4 1/2 in x 2 in; 30.48 cm x 11.43 cm x 5.08 cm