Doll's hat
Category
Dolls' accessories
Date
circa 1910
Materials
Cotton, silk and lace.
Measurements
30 mm (height); 175 mm (diameter)
Place of origin
Philadelphia
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 660713
Summary
A cream silk doll's hat decorated with lace and pink and green flowers. It has an elastic chin strap which has lost its stretch. The hat dates from circa 1910 and was made in Philadelphia, USA. According to a letter from Mrs Ballysingh to Betty Cadbury, Mrs Ballysingh gave the doll's clothes to Betty Cadbury via a friend who was visiting. The clothes were made for a doll which was given to Mrs Ballysingh when she was small girl (6 years old) in 1910. The lady who made them, a 'Philadelphia Quaker', was a friend of her parents and lived near them in New Jersey. The doll, which by 1976 no longer existed, had been named Priscilla after the donor. While she was living in Jamaica, Mrs Ballysingh had kept the clothes in a cedar chest.