Baby's soft toy ball; Ames, Iowa; ca. 1900
date: label: date made
content: ca.1900
notes: label: Description
content: Asoft toy (fabric) ball, c.1900, Iowa. Pieced from printed cotton twill with oval childhood vignettes and text captions; the vignettes were engineered in the printing to make a star at the top and bottom of the ball. 7" diameter; 6 pieces machine stitched together, cotton stuffing. The ground is light blue, the vignettes include: “Here’s a Ball for Baby”; Here’s the Baby’s Hammer”; Here’s the Baby’s Soldiers”; Here’s the Baby’s Trumpet”; Here’s the Baby’s Cradle”; “Don’t Take the Ball Away”. Condition generally good, evidence of use and wear; a few old mends; one of the pieces is unpicked for 1/2" at the top center star; there is a fraying 1” tear in the “Here’s a Ball for Baby” scene.
label: Description
content: Made for James Arthur Dunn, born April 29 1899 in San Antonio, Texas. His father, also James Arthur Dunn, died shortly thereafter and mother (Mary Ellen (Mae) Gale Dunn, and baby James returned to Iowa
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Iowa, Iowa
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Gale Dunn Kaufmann
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0323.01
label: accession number
content: 2015.0323
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0323.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Soft toy ball
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in; 17.78 cm