Reflections in Time - Girls and Their Dolls REBECCA
This doll depicts a typical homestead girl and the type of doll she would have played with in 1880.
Rebecca is wearing her “Sunday go to meeting” dress. Homesteaders were hard working and frugal.
Most people had only one “dress up”outfit reserved for special occasions.
Because there was rarely extra money to indulge in a store bought doll, mothers made rag dolls for
their little girls. As the name indicates these dolls were made of left over scraps or rags of material. Simple and
cuddly, rag dolls are still enjoyed by many a girl today.
Rebecca wears a red cotton dress trimmed in ivory lace with a red, ivory and blue calico print pinafore. The pinafore has ruffles trimmed with lace over the shoulders. She wears ivory lace trimmed pantaloons. Under her black lace up boots she wears black stockings.
This doll, her outfit and accessories are one of a kind originals, there is no other doll like her in the World!
