and mass-produced Black dolls with ethnically-correct features. īeatrice Wright Brewington, an African American entrepreneur, founded B. The doll was a realistic Black doll, breaking the mammy doll stereotype. In 1947, the first African American woman cartoonist Jackie Ormes created the Patty-Jo doll, which was based on Patty-Jo 'n Ginger, the cartoon panel she penned for newspapers at the time. Gradually, other American companies followed suit. Between 19, Horsman, Vogue, and Madame Alexander included Black dolls in their doll lines. & Cie and Société Française de Fabrication de Bébés et Jouets (S.F.B.J.) of France, and Kestner and Steiner of Germany.Īmerican manufacture Ad for the Negro Doll Company, Nashville, Tennessee, 1908 Modern black dollsĪmerican entrepreneur Richard Henry Boyd founded the National Negro Doll Company in 1911 "after he tried to purchase dolls for his children but could find none that were not gross caricatures of African Americans." Antique-to-modern black dolls from the collection of Debbie Garrett represent a variety of doll genres and mediums.Īmerican companies began including Black dolls in their doll lines in the early 1900s. Other European doll makers include Bru Jne. Gebruder Heubach of Germany made character faces in bisque. In 1892, Jumeau of Paris advertised Black and mixed-race dolls with bisque heads. These predecessors include Carl Bergner of Germany, who made a three-faced doll with one face a crying Black child and the other two, happier white faces. Several 19th-century European doll companies preceded American doll companies in manufacturing Black dolls. More accurate, mass-produced depictions are manufactured today as toys and adult collectibles.Įuropean manufacture Painting by Lucie van Dam van Isselt, the Netherlands, around 1935 Black doll manufacture dates back to the 19th century, with representations being both realistic and stereotypical. A Black doll is a doll of a black person.
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