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Description
12" (30 cm.) Each is an all-cloth doll with flat-dimensional face
with oil-painted facial features,two with brown upper- or side-
glancing eyes,the third with blue downcast eyes,painted
lashes,closed mouth,and all with yarn hair in various styles.
Condition: generally excellent. Comments: American,circa 1935,the
dolls were created by American artists during their tenure with
the Depression-era Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.); these
particular dolls are the work of the Alabama group. Value Points:
pristine preservation of the rare dolls,considered among the
finest works of the project,with artful painting and fine original
costumes.