Feeling cute. May move across the room later.
It’s
#SpookySeason and we’re featuring some unique dolls found in our park collections.
First up, over at Thomas Edison National Historical Park, one of Thomas Edison’s early inventions was a Talking Doll (1890) that used a miniature phonograph to give the doll a voice. Only on the market for one month, the phonograph proved to be too fragile for children to play. Edison subsequently had the device removed to allow for the remaining dolls to be sold. (This doll certainly doesn’t wander the shelves each night looking for a new voice box.)
The next feature is part of a late 19th century bisque porcelain doll head found during excavations at the Narbonne House of Salem Maritime National Historic Site. Normally she stares blankly out of a display case in the Narbonne House, but while renovations are being done, it’s resting in museum storage. We think?
Also at Salem Maritime is a mid-19th century wax doll that was donated to the Derby Hou...