# @nationalparkservice on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CVO7VgeDin0
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/21026045-nationalparkservice-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-10-20T02:12:36.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** National Park Service (@nationalparkservice) — https://gondola.cc/nationalparkservice

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Feeling cute. May move across the room later.

Its #SpookySeason and we’re featuring some unique dolls found in park collections. Scroll through to learn more. 

First up, over at @thomasedisonnhp, 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 a part of a late 19th century bisque porcelain doll head found during excavations at the Narbonne House of @salemmaritimenps. 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 House in the 1940s. This photograph was taken shortly after her donation. (Sometimes I frown…but when I do it’s because you won’t go to sleep.) This doll lives in museum storage, where it definitely does not climb out of the drawer and run around museum storage giggling in the middle of the night.

Alaska or bust! This doll, wearing cloth bloomers, knee-high socks, and beaded leather slippers, was found in the vicinity of 5th street in the historic district of @klondike_alaska_nps in Skagway. The doll is looked after by museum technicians and cradled in a climate-controlled room to safeguard it and prevent any further damage (to the public). Protecting artifacts like this, creepy or cool, is a means to help preserve the story of our past. 

Alright folks. Have a good one. 

#creepydolls #museumcollection #nationalparkservice #dolls #toys

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
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| National Park Service | @nationalparkservice | https://gondola.cc/nationalparkservice | Government Organization |

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toys, creepydolls, dolls, spookyseason, nationalparkservice, museumcollection

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