Doll's hat
Category
Dolls' accessories
Date
1910
Materials
Straw, lace and ribbon.
Measurements
32 mm (height); 150 mm (diameter)
Place of origin
Philadelphia
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 660714
Summary
A doll's brown straw hat with beige lace on the brim and yellow ribbon around the crown. It has an elastic chin strap. 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 then 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.