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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1917 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Alice Boughton. mysterious sense which, at its best, belongs alone to the littlemother with her doll. To her the doll, be it rag or china, andhowever uncouth, is a real personality, with a definite name.It becomes an inseparable companion; the object of the fondestaffection. Call this trivial, if you please, or the result of child-ish imagination, but not so is it to the ardent little one. It isof the real world that is just opening to the growing apprehen-sion of the youngster and supplies what becomes a treasuredmemory in later years.
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GAY TIMES. Figure 2. To grandmother, the ragged doll of her youth brought fondremembrance of the time when it was a cherished possession.Its presence now, a century old, constitutes, for the membersof the family, a prized memento of its former owner and apleasing reminder of their own happy time when dolls werereal persons. For the duly qualified it is but a step across the border tothis magic land. The inhabitants do not object to posing be-fore the lens in life-like attitudes. In a recent visit it was mygood fortune to secure some pictures of well dressed ladies in 193 carriage and on foot; stately dames come out from their seclu-sion ; dances and afternoon teas, dear to the feminine heart;and even of dogs of demeanor so demure that it gave no hintthat they ever would or could delight to bark and bite. These productions, some of which are herewith shown,Figures i and 2, served with a few touches of water color, asdecorations on place-cards at a Christmas dinner table, pro-viding a p

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