Pinn Family doll - Ty, father

Titles: Pinn Family doll - Ty, father (Supplied title)

Description: Pinn Family clothespin dolls, designed by Emily T. Myers of Mahtomedi, Minnesota, in the 1930s and purchased directly from Myers by Irma Stage of Wausau, Wisconsin. Myers operated Wood Craft Studios at 493 Wabasha Street in Saint Paul, where she manufactured and sold Pinn Family dolls. The heads are made of oval wooden balls and the bodies are wooden blocks. The arms and legs are round wooden clothespins. The feet are made of 3/16 inch slats that are rounded on the front and back and then nailed to the round end of the clothespins. The 4 larger dolls have small round wooden dowels for necks and smaller pieces of clothespins for thighs and have bending knees. The knee joints are made with nails, the pointed end being curled back into the pins, allowing the knees to bend. All the dolls have wool yarn glued to the heads. The dolls were shipped to Irma Stage in brown cardboard boxes.

Dates

• Not earlier than 01/01/1930 - Not later than 12/31/1939 (Creation)

Creation

• made by: Myers, Emily Trigg
• received by: Stage, Miss Irma

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 2006.78.1

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 1 item

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 12 1/4 inches height
• 4 inches width
• 1 3/4 inches depth

Subjects

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