America's doll house
Subtitle: the miniature world of Faith Bradford
By: William L. Bird, Jr.
Contributors: Bradford, Faith, 1880-1970.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History; In association with Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9781568989747
Subjects: Bradford, Faith, -- 1880-1970 -- Art collections; National Museum of American History (U.S.); Dollhouses -- United States
Description: "One of the most popular exhibits at the Smithsonian Institute is a dollhouse. Sitting on the museum's third floor is the five-story home donated to the museum by Faith Bradford, a Washington, D.C., librarian, who spent more than a half-century accumulating and constructing the 1,354 miniatures that fill its 23 intricately detailed rooms. When Bradford donated them to the museum in 1951, she wrote a lengthy manuscript describing the lives of its residents: Mr. and Mrs. Peter Doll and their ten children, two visiting grandparents, twenty pets, and household staff. Bradford cataloged the Dolls' tastes, habits, and preferences in neatly typed household inventories, which she then bound, along with photographs and fabric samples, in a scrapbook"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The miniature world of Faith Bradford : an illustrated history; title: The Dolls' house : room by room.