Character doll
Mattel Inc.
Category
Dolls
Date
1998
Materials
Plastic charecter doll dressed in textile material
Measurements
305 mm (Height)
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 672605.2
Summary
A plastic ‘Space Camp Barbie’ character doll manufactured by Mattel Inc. The female doll is brown and has long, shoulder length black hair. She is wearing a pair of small circular blue plastic earrings and has a circular blue plastic ring on her right hand. She is dressed in a blue textile jumpsuit and has a pair of black plastic boots. The jumpsuit has two side pockets, an American flag logo at the top of the left sleeve, Space Shuttle and NASA badges on the right sleeve and U.S. Space Camp and NASA Space and Rocket Centre badges on the front. There is a pink Barbie label attached to the rear of the doll at the waist. The arms, legs and head of the doll are all moveable.
Provenance
Doll manufactured by Mattel Inc. in 1998. Purchased by the National Trust Museum of Childhood via ebay in September 2020 as part of the Collecting Cultures Exploring Childhoods project.
Makers and roles
Mattel Inc. , manufacturer