America's doll house the miniature world of Faith Bradford /
"One of the most popular exhibits at the Smithsonian Institute is a dollhouse. Sitting on the museum's third floor is the five-story home donated to the museum by Faith Bradford, a Washington, D.C., librarian, who spent more than a half-century accumulating and constructing the 1,354 minia...
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Washington, D.C. : New York :
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History ; In association with Princeton Architectural Press,
c2010.
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| Հրատարակություն: | 1st ed. |
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| Առցանց հասանելիություն: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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| Ամփոփում: | "One of the most popular exhibits at the Smithsonian Institute is a dollhouse. Sitting on the museum's third floor is the five-story home donated to the museum by Faith Bradford, a Washington, D.C., librarian, who spent more than a half-century accumulating and constructing the 1,354 miniatures that fill its 23 intricately detailed rooms. When Bradford donated them to the museum in 1951, she wrote a lengthy manuscript describing the lives of its residents: Mr. and Mrs. Peter Doll and their ten children, two visiting grandparents, twenty pets, and household staff. Bradford cataloged the Dolls' tastes, habits, and preferences in neatly typed household inventories, which she then bound, along with photographs and fabric samples, in a scrapbook" -- |
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| Ֆիզիկական նկարագրություն: | 127 p. : ill. (some col.). |
| Մատենագիտություն: | Includes bibliographical references. |