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• Author/Creator:Von Hesse, Maxeda Ferguson.
  
• Title:The Saralee Negro dolls, 1951.
  
• Physical Description:0.21 linear feet (1 box)
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:LSF- BEINECKE
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: JWJ MSS 124
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Notes:Title from cover.
  Associated material: Beautiful Saralee Doll (BEIN 2014 Folio 475 and BEIN 2014 Folio 476), Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  In English.
  Gift of Maxeda Ferguson von Hesse, 1951.
  
• Access and use:This material is open for research.
• Biographical / Historical note:Maxeda Ferguson von Hesse (1913-1987), American author, lecturer, and director of the Von Hesse Studios of Effective Speech and Human Relations, New York.
  The Beautiful Saralee Dolls were the first anthropologically correct African American baby dolls made in the United States. Two examples were presented to Yale University Library's James Weldon Johnson Collection in November 1951 by their manufacturer, David Rosenstein (died 1963), president of Ideal Toy Corporation, and Sara Lee Creech (1916- 2008), their inventor.
  
• Summary:Binder containing typescripts and photographs compiled by Maxeda Ferguson von Hesse to document the creation and production of the Beautiful Saralee Dolls. The binder contains an essay regarding the dolls' creation, fifteen black-and-white photographic prints of doll head maquettes created by sculptor Sheila Burlingame (1894-1969), and brief biographies of Sara Lee Creech, Burlingame, and von Hesse, a friend of Creech, who assisted in the production and marketing of the dolls.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Maxeda Ferguson von Hesse, The Saralee Negro Dolls. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  
• Subjects:Burlingame, Sheila, 1894-1969.
  Creech, Sara Lee.
  Rosenstein, David, -1963.
  Von Hesse, Maxeda Ferguson.
  Ideal Toy Corporation.
  Black dolls--United States.
  
• Genre/Form:Photographs--United States--20th century.