Object Record
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Object Name |
Doll, Paper |
Donor |
Mower, Robin |
Description |
One in a set of 41 paper dolls and accessories. This piece is made of stiffer paper. It is a full woman, white with black hair. She is standing with her fingertips touching at her waist. Her head is turned to her right. She is wearing a yellow undergarment (sort of a camisole and underwear piece) and blue high heels. She is holding a handkerchief in her hands. On back is written in pencil "Lusel Wilson". |
Dimensions |
W-2.125 L-9.25 inches |
Year Range From |
1900 |
Year Range To |
1935 |
Owned By |
Rønholt, Ingeborg/Rønholt, Helene/Hoiriis, Karen |
Material |
paper |
Associated People |
Rønholt, Ingeborg Rønholt, Helene Hoiriis, Karen Wilson, Lusel |
Search Terms |
Rønholt, Ingeborg Rønholt, Helene Hoiriis, Karen toy paper doll clothing fashion Wilson, Lusel |
Given In Memory Of |
In Memory of Helene R. Hoiriis, Ingeborg R. Nielsen, Karen H. Mower |
Provenance |
The paper doll set is ca. 1900-1910, Denmark, and ca. 1935, USA. Older dolls were owned by either Ingeborg or Helene Ronholt, daughters of Karen Marie M. Ronholt, and the newer dolls were owned by Karen Hoiriis, granddaughter of Karen Marie. Family info from the donor: RØNHOLT Family: Jens Peter Jensen (1842-1900), member of the Guild of Goldsmiths of Copenhagen (1874), was Karen Mower's great grandfather. He married a Swede, Emma Augusta Thelin (1844-1927), in 1868. In 1881, Jens was granted royal license or permission to add the family name Rønholt. All of his and Emma's eight children are so listed on the censuses. HØIRIIS Family: Jens Jensen (1847-1928) was born in Villerslev, Denmark, and was a farmer and later chairman of Thy County Export Association, and Chairman of Hurup District Council. He was Karen Mower's grandfather. In 1873, he married Karen Knudsgaard Petersen (1851-1930) of Højriis, her family's ancestral farm in Hurup from before 1771. For the first 12 years of marriage, they lived on Jens' Lildbjerggaard farm in Villerslev, but when in 1885 they moved to Karen's farm "Højriis" in Hurup, Jens added to his own name the surname "Høiriis. All of his and Karen's seven children became known by the surname Høiriis, and their five grandchildren were also baptised with that surname. Since the 1960s, many of the family's younger generations use "Hoiriis" as their legal surname (at age 18, choice of any family name is allowed by Danish law). Others in the family use the name as a middle name. Helene Margrethe Ronholt Hoiriis was born Jan. 21, 1897 in Copenhagen, and died Dec. 2, 1990, in Durham, NH. She and her husband Holger (May 12, 1894, Hurup, DK - Feb. 15, 1958, Berkeley, CA) married Feb. 3, 1923 in Copenhagen, and immigrted in 1923. Helene was a piano teacher and artist. Holger was a mechanical engineer for the first U.S. rocket launch (Redstone). Helene's sister Ingeborg was born Oct. 31, 1906, presumably in Copenhagen, and died Jan. 22, 1996 in Askov, DK. In 1951, she married Harry Nielsen (Sept. 24, 1915-Jan. 27, 2002). She never immigrated and lived at GI. Skolevej 5, Askov 4733, Tappernoje, DK. |
Date Received by Museum |
05/13/2010 |
Images |
140\2010017002.JPG |
Accession number |
2010.017 |
Object Identification Number |
2010.017.002 |