Hard plastic girl doll, Terri Lee doll
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 May 2017
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Ann Dunham
label: Donor Name
content: Maya Soetoro-Ng
notes: label: Notes
content: Plastic doll and green cotton dress. Doll has a body of six separate plastic parts: head, torso, and four limbs. Original blonde "Raysheen" wig (appears to have been given a haircut). Painted facial features. Original clothing lacking, but comes with hand sewn dress, green with white polka dots. Label imprinted across doll's shoulders: "Terri Lee. Patent Pending"
label: Notes
content: Bron Solyom notes (page 6, see accession file): "These [toys, E434810-434817] were among Ann Dunham's personal possessions. I do not know if either of her children played with them." It is unknown when or where these were made or acquired.
label: Notes
content: Terri Lee doll, produced by the Terri Lee doll Company, which was in business from 1946 - 1962. This doll appears to date circa 1947 - 1950? See https://www.dorseysdolls.com/identify.html , https://dollreference.com/terri_lee_dolls.html , and Tina Koeppe, "The Best-Dressed Doll in the World: Nebraska's Own Terri Lee," Nebraska History 93 (2012): 162 - 181, https://history.nebraska.gov/sites/history.nebraska.gov/files/doc/publications/NH2012TerriLee.pdf , retrieved 3 September 2022.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Jul 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 7
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: American
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2077623
label: USNM Number
content: E434815-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Doll
physicalDescription: label: Length - Articulated
content: 42 cm
label: Width - Articulated
content: 15 cm
label: Height
content: 9 cm