PETERSBURG — In celebration of Black History Month, the traveling exhibit Freedom Culture Art Dolls Museum will make a stop at the Petersburg Public Library. Over 200 handmade cloth dolls will be ...
The story behind huggable cloth dolls with perky smiles and big eyes — modern-day cousins of Raggedy Ann and Andy — captured the heart of Maureen Ennis. The handmade dolls are given to children who ...
Harriet Jacobs, who escaped enslavement to write Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), created these three dolls for the children of writer Nathaniel Parker Willis around 1850-60. Private ...