What important times in American History don't have a historical doll?

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Originally posted by Grapedy1982:

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Originally Posted by Kathrine

Baskets, bowls and different cooking supplies, socks and shoes, knitting pins/ crochet needle

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">A Pilgrim girl probably would have known how to tat though since it's an ancient form of lace-making. If Pilgrims even made lace....

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I don't think they "did" lace. They didn't have laws on what you could or could not wear but they were mainly farmers, younger sons and adventurers. Maybe the governor's wife would have lace on her clothing but I doubt it. A Pilgrim girl would do basic sewing/mending as far as I know. Their clothes and blankets and everything man made came from England until the mid-1600's when other colonies began to spring up and they became more prosperous.

My mom, my sis, and I have been waiting for years for a Russian Jewish AG to represent our own heritage. If they ever make one, there will be 3 of her in my family as all 3 of us want her! My grandmother on my dad's side lived in Moscow as a young girl in the 1920s
-Angela

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Originally posted by lieu2:
I think Hawaii has the largest Asian population in any state. I think predominently Japanese and Native Pacific Islander. So they definitely could do something there.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">And think of all the neat accessories! 1894 would be an interesting time to read about, with the annexation to the U.S.

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I think there were a lot of Russian Jews as well. So couldn't they intergrate the Russian immigrant and make her Jewish. It kinds of hits two ideas at once. But let me know if I got this wrong but I thought a lot of Russians were also Jewish.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I believe many Russian Jews left Russia to escape persecution around the turn of the century (as in 'Fiddler on the Roof'). That would be the perfect Ellis Island story!

<font color="#051E50" size="1">[ December 14, 2004 12:48 PM: Message edited by: prettyannamoon ]</font>

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Originally posted by QNPoohBear:
A Pilgrim doll would be a BAD IDEA! I can't stress enough how HARSH their lives were. They existed and just barely. If they did 1634, life was a little easier, but 1624 is the year the Plimoth Plantation museum is set and the story Sarah Morton's Day takes place. Everthing man made came from England, they worked HARD....

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I don't think it would be a bad idea. In fact it would teach children what it was really like (or close to it). That it wasn't all rosy. American children already learn a bit about it through the pilgrim story for Thanksgiving anyways. Now it could go into a little more detail.

And to have children that don't live with their "real" parents anymore isn't so uncommon for the other time periods either or even nowadays although mostly through divorce. It might make children appreciate how lucky they are to live today.

An AG pilgrim girl doesn't have to have lost her mother. What about Josefina, she had lost her mother. Kirsten's friend, whom she met on the boat to America, also died. Felicity almost lost her mother. The books do show some harsh events in the girls lives too.

I could imagine a Pilgrim girl for a historical doll. It's also a big part of US history. You still commemorate it every single year when you celebrate Thanksgiving.

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Originally posted by QNPoohBear:


I don't think they "did" lace. They didn't have laws on what you could or could not wear but they were mainly farmers, younger sons and adventurers. Maybe the governor's wife would have lace on her clothing but I doubt it. A Pilgrim girl would do basic sewing/mending as far as I know. Their clothes and blankets and everything man made came from England until the mid-1600's when other colonies began to spring up and they became more prosperous.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That's what I thought. Do you know if she would have made a sampler? The ones from the mid to late 1600's are just exquisite!

Angie, that's so cool! Russia is my foreign obsession, lol. I found out yesterday that the groundskeeper at work, his father lived in Russia as a boy, would have been right after the Revolution. Now I just need to catch him where I can pester him about it and ask him tons of questions!

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Do you know if she would have made a sampler? The ones from the mid to late 1600's are just exquisite!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">There's ONE surviving sampler from the daughter of a prominent "Pilgrim" which was made a little later. All research would lead me to believe that unless she was REALLY wealthy and her parents had lots of indentured servants she wouldn't make a sampler. Not until later... they were just too busy trying to survive. Everything most people know about the Colonial era is typically from the 1700's or at least the mid 1600's. In 1620-1624 they had basically nothing and were just busy surviving.

That's what I figured.

There's a Canadian company that reproduces old samplers into kit form for people to work. It's one of my favorite place to just browse and drool since I'm an avid cross-stitcher.

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Originally posted by Grapedy1982:

There's a Canadian company that reproduces old samplers into kit form for people to work. It's one of my favorite place to just browse and drool since I'm an avid cross-stitcher.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Woohoo! Me too! Though I generally don't have the time... That company sounds really neat, though. I got this program over the summer that lets you design your own patterns and print them out, either from scratch or by converting images. I made this ambitious pattern to stitch for my boyfriend's family for Christmas. I started it months ago because I knew it would require a ton of time, but school got in the way and now I'm not sure it'll be done by Christmas. [img]confused.gif[/img] On the upside, my boyfriend wants to learn how to cross-stich - he gets all excited seeing my project progress. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

- Becca

I have one of those programs! Need to re-install it again. The site I like to browse is The Essamplaire. Some absolutely beautiful stuff!! One of my current projects is a Teresa Wentzler sampler that is intricately detailed. I'm beginning to think I'll never finish it, lol. It has 54 tweeded colors in it, and about 33 single colors!