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Author:

Goddu, Krystyna Poray.

Title:

Dollmakers and their stories : women who changed the world of play / Krystyna Poray Goddu.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Henry Holt & Company,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

viii, 146 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Dollmakers--United States.--Biography.
Dolls--United States--History--20th century.
Dollmakers.
Dolls--History--20th century.
Women--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Martha Chase: 1851-1925 -- Käthe Kruse: 1883-1968 -- Sasha Morgenthaler: 1893-1975 -- Beatrice Alexander Behrman: 1895-1990 -- Ruth Handler: 1916-2002 -- Today's women and the future of dolls.

Summary:

Profiles five of the women behind the most important dolls of the past century, and introduces six women making dolls today.

ISBN:

9780805072570 (alk. paper)
0805072578 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)54066114

LCCN:

2003063961

Locations:

BVPE851 -- Nevada Public Library (Nevada)