Sometime in 1935, Elizabeth Johnston, 7, of Bethlehem got a present from her parents — a beautiful dollhouse from the Schoenhut Co. of Philadelphia. It was her first dollhouse, but it was hardly her ...
A HOBBY AS enduring as stone and mortar took up residence in the heart of Evelyn Jones one Christmas Day nearly 30 years ago. That was the day her husband, the late Army Maj. Nelson Jones, presented ...
It was a time when it paid to be rich. And those who were not, would do well to fake it. It was a time when opulence cast a shadow on poverty, obscuring it from view. It was a time whose ...
A gift Jennifer Wakenell’s parents gave her as a child changed her life. “My mother and father gave me a beautiful dollhouse when I was a young girl,” she explains. “They painstakingly put in working ...
Dear Helaine and Joe: I am wondering what you could tell me about this set of ivory miniature furniture. I think my grandmother might have received it from a San Francisco family she worked for as a ...
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Frances Glessner Lee, born in 1878, made dollhouse-size dioramas of murder scenes. These detailed mini-murder models were more than grisly hobby: Her Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death were used to ...
Flora Gill Jacobs, whose collection of antique miniatures became the Washington Dolls' House and Toy Museum and attracted visitors from around the world for nearly 30 years, died May 31 of congestive ...
This photo essay was created as part of an assignment for the introduction to photojournalism course at the University of Georgia. With the source’s permission, The Red & Black has selected photos ...
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