Item Name	Doll	Image1
Owner(s)	Thomas, Ezra S.
Category	Artifacts
Year	Early: 1900 - Late: 1910
Description	A small, porcelain, "Nippon" doll with black hair. Original catalogue record notes that the doll is "all one piece" and that it is wrapped in (part of) a shroud from one of Ezra Thomas' children.
Provenance	Ezra Thomas was one of six children of William Binkley Thomas (See Reference, also Bible 978.040.024).
Collection	Doon Heritage Crossroads Contact : 10 Huron Rd. Kitchener 519-748-1914 www.region.waterloo.on.ca/doon
Accession No.	1978.040.026
References	Email communication from Lisamarie Widmeyer (great-great-grand daughter of Hannah Schneider Thomas). The Collector's Encyclopedia of Dolls, Coleman (New York: Crown, 1968).
Curatorial Comments	Frozen Charlottes. 1850s-1914. Also called pillar dolls. solid china or bathing babies. Made in glazed and unglazed porcelain. Came with molded hair, bonnets, or wigs; pink, white or black china; usually represented a baby and often were carried in the arms of a larger doll. Larger sizes were made later. See the photographs on page 241. (CED, p.240)

Fraktur design based on Family Register by Jacob Shoemacher in Joseph Schneider Bible, 1821.