Saralee doll designed by Sara Lee Creech

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A Saralee doll designed by Sara Lee Creech, Maxeda Von Hesse, Sheila Burlingame, and manufactured by the Ideal Toy Corporation. The infant doll features a vinyl head, vinyl limbs, and the soft torso of the doll is constructed with brown cotton fabric and filled with padding. She is wearing a white organdy dress, bonnet, chemise, baby bloomers, shoes, and socks. She has sleeping eyes that are bright light brown when opened. She also has thick black lashes, thin brown eyebrows and pink lips and tongue. Her hair is represented by molded swirled curls painted a dark brown. The baby doll’s hands are open with the fingers splayed and slightly curled. Her slightly yellowed, white, empire waisted, organdy dress is gathered at the waist.

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