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February 9, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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A selection of around a dozen porcelain dolls in a mirror backed display case. The dolls have a range of clothing and hair styles with variance in era (Victorian dress for example) and culture (a boy in lederhosen, for example), but not in ethnicity. All of the dolls are white. Front and center is a doll wearing King’s attire, including a crown and cloak. His expression is serene. To his right is a cow figurine wearing a dress with a hat, and is holding a floral bouquet. She’s gently smiling. This display case has four dolls. The smallest is about four inches tall. She is an old woman with a porcelain face sitting at a table covered in miscellaneous house goods from the early 1900s, such as tied scrolls, a handbag, a small milk pitcher, candles, and more. To her left is a figure about six inches tall on a one inch wooden platform. Her face is made of a very finely knit fabric. She is an old knit goods sales woman wearing many layers of cold weather clothing including a cloak, and she is holding a bag of her wares. Behind her is a taller figurine, around ten inches, who is made of porcelain. She is wearing what I believe to be traditional Ukrainian clothing including a jaunty hat and fuzzy earrings. Finally, the tallest figurine is around a foot tall. His face and hands are very finely knit, and because he was purchased around a hundred years ago he is wearing a tag reading “Russian peasant from Ukraine.” He has blue eyes and a sweet smile. His blonde hair is mostly hidden by a golden yellow hat.
December 5, 2024 at 3:29 AM
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Took bram to my hometown public library, where there is a doll collection
A display of antique dolls, one of whom is wearing Victorian style dress and making a terrified facial expression. To her right is a blonde doll wearing 1920s dress with an expression that says “I’m over it.” Reflected in the mirrors back of the display is me, Beth, making a matching terrified facial expression and holding my phone. Right side of the photo. A white wall has a plaque reading: ELIZA CRUCE HALL DOLL COLLECTION. ELIZA CRUCE HALL GAVE HER PRIZED DOLL COLLECTION TO THE ARDMORE PUBLIC LIBRARY IN 1971. SHE HAD SPENT THIRTY FIVE YEARS COLLECTING DOLLS FROM AROUND THE WORLD AND AS SHE APPROACHED HER EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY, SHE DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR FUTURE, SHE WANTED CHILDREN TO ENJOY HER DOLLS AS THEY HAD ON VISITS TO HER HOME, AND SHE CHOSE THE LIBRARY AS A PERFECT NEW HOME FOR HER CHERISHED COLLECTION. THREE WEEKS AFTER THE DEDICATION OF THE COLLECTION, MRS HALL DIED DURING AN AFTERNOON NAP. MRS, HALL HAD LIVED IN ARDMORE SINCE HER FATHER BROUGHT THE FAMILY HERE FROM MARION: KENTUCKY IN 1896, HER FAMILY WAS INFLUENTIAL IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARDMORE AND THE STATE, HER UNCLE LEE CRUCE WAS THE SECOND GOVERNOR OF OKLAHOMA. On the left side of the photo is a twilight themed reading nook, with red and black checkered carpet and red walls.
December 5, 2024 at 2:41 AM
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November 24, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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An animated brown bear cub sits smiling widely in a metal bathtub which is full of water with foamy bubbles on the top. The little brown bear cub is sitting in the lap of his father, who is a larger brown bear. Father bear has a gentle smile. Their shoulders are visible because since they’re in the bath, neither of them is wearing a shirt. Also in the tub is the cubs mother, a brown bear who is slightly smaller than the father. Despite being in the tub, mother bear is wearing not only her pink dress, but also her light blue pinafore. Despite being in wet clothing, Mother Bear is also gently smiling. The tub sits on wooden floors in an old house with warm cream colored walls. There is wooden furniture too, counters and an armoire, which has an ornate mirror in it. There is an open door to the outside showing a green grass, a wooden picket fence, and a brown-green tree line.
November 14, 2024 at 11:51 PM