Abigail Doll
date: label: date made
content: 1930-1939
name: label: maker
content: Sperry, Portia Howe
notes: label: Description
content: Portia Sperry designed, produced, and sold this cloth doll with the help of a network of local farmwomen in her rural Indiana community in the early 1930s. The Abigail doll was dressed in the print dress, apron, and sunbonnet of a pioneer woman and was the first of two dolls the women created. A resourceful 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 during the Great Depression.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, Brown
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Susan Popp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0262.01
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0262.01
label: accession number
content: 2014.0262
objectType: label: Object Name
content: doll
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 in x 9 in; 50.8 cm x 22.86 cm