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Nita Patton and dolls

Description: Anne Patton sits on a stoop, playing with dolls and toy ships. Anne, who looks like she's between seven and twelve, is wearing a white dress with puffy sleeves and dark tights, and has her light, shoulder-length hair pulled back with a narrow headband with a rose on it. She has seven dolls, four of which are seated on a small toy rocking bench, and two model ships with white sails.
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Nita Patton with toy stable

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Anne Patton sits on a grass lawn playing with a wooden stable toy set, with a small doll sitting in the foreground just right of center, and a dark horse next to the play set. Anne, who looks like she is between seven and twelve here, is wearing a dark dress with a wide sailor-style collar and a shallow, wide brimmed straw hat, with her blond hair in two braids the reach just past her shoulders. There is a dog sitting on the grass in the background.

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Nita Patton starting school

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Anne Patton stands behind her black bicycle, holding a pair of books. Anne is wearing a dark dress with white buttons and a broad white collar, a circular black hat, dark stockings, and boots. There are stone steps leading up from the dirt road she is standing on, and a dark staircase leading up to the house behind her, on the left.

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Displays of dolls, Polytechnic Elementary School, 1030 East California, Pasadena. 1936

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Displays of dolls in the Polytechnic Elementary School at 1030 East California. The dolls are displayed on tables arranged in a large rectangle with space in the middle with a bookcase displaying more dolls. The room has a high ceiling and basketball hoop (the school gymnasium?).

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Paper dolls

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A collection of handmade paper dolls, a photograph, and two leaves of paper dating from approximately the 1860s to the 1920s. The collection was stored in a wooden box containing thirty-four paper dolls of human characters, seven paper dolls of various animals, and fourteen wooden stands for the dolls. On the verso of two billheads addressed to Miss Edith Thompson of England is a handwritten reflection on which literary characters, friends, and family members the dolls depict. Thompson is presumably both the author and the creator of the dolls. Her writing includes personal anecdotes and characteristics regarding their creation. Many of her descriptions of the dolls mention references to characters from children's poetry and literature published from the 1840s to 1860s; she references rabbits and cats from Otto Spekter's Picture Fables, 1858; "Eunice" from Mrs. Barbauld's Hymns in Prose, 1864; "Daisy" from a Wordsworth poem, and more. Also included is a black-and-white photograph measuring 2 x 4 inches of two women's backs as they walk towards an arched path; of unknown origin.

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Children's literature paper doll collection

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A collection of handmade paper dolls, a photograph, and two leaves of paper dating from approximately the 1860s to the 1920s. The collection was stored in a wooden box containing thirty-four paper dolls of human characters, seven paper dolls of various animals, and fourteen wooden stands for the dolls. On the verso of two billheads addressed to Miss Edith Thompson of England is a handwritten reflection on which literary characters, friends, and family members the dolls depict. Thompson is presumably both the author and the creator of the dolls. Her writing includes personal anecdotes and characteristics regarding their creation. Many of her descriptions of the dolls mention references to characters from children's poetry and literature published from the 1840s to 1860s; she references rabbits and cats from Otto Spekter's Picture Fables, 1858; "Eunice" from Mrs. Barbauld's Hymns in Prose, 1864; "Daisy" from a Wordsworth poem, and more.Also included is a black-and-white photograph measuring 2 x 4 inches of two women's backs as they walk towards an arched path; of unknown origin.

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Anne Wilson Patton and Ruth Wilson Patton

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Anne Wilson Patton stands with her mother Ruth Wilson Patton in a grassy area with trees in the background. Ruth, on the right, is wearing a black dress with puffed sleeves and a white silk collar, and her hair is swept up into a large black hat. Anne, on the left, is wearing a lighter dress, with gathered waist, sleeves, and shoulders, and a large, soft black hat. Anne is holding a narrow box or album under her right arm, and holding her mother's necklace with her left hand.

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