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The American Girl Doll: A Cultural Phenomenon
In 1986, Rowland founded the Pleasant Company in Middleton, Wisconsin, and launched the first line of American Girl dolls. This initial offering included three dolls: Kirsten Larson, a pioneer ...
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The new American Girl doll: She’s Jewish, she’s poor and her name is Rebecca
It’s official: The newest American Girl doll is 9-year-old Rebecca Rubin, a Jewish-American girl who lives with her family on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1914. SAN FRANCISCO (JTA ...
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Meet the real-life sister act behind the two new ’90s Jewish American Girl dolls
And as of this week, in a sense, it is one. On Wednesday, American Girl released its first twin dolls, Isabel and Nicki Hoffman, who are also the first characters from an interfaith family.
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American Girl dolls seeing resurgence
Kirsten is an American Girl doll. She also is an icon for many Minnesota girls who grew up with the American Girl line of dolls in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, along with its catalogs and books ...
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Nothing against Barbie, but the McCloskey sisters of Chaska were all about their American Girl dolls. Katie McCloskey realized early on that unlike Barbie, who liked to shop, wear cute clothes, ...
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American Girl dolls have re-entered the chat. To many, they’re still relevant.
Aurora Fenzl brought a Kirsten doll to a program about American Girl dolls Saturday at the Minnesota History Center. (Greta Kaul/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...