By Maribeth Keane and Jessica Lewis — We have a very small team here at the Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood, so we all have to do lots of different things. I don’t look after all the dolls, but I oversee the collections. I do the waxes and the woodens. I’ve got colleagues who are in charge of the cloth ones and the plastic ones and the porcelain ones and so on. I used to do all of it. When Caroline Goodfellow took early retirement about 10 or 11, years ago, I had to take on the whole doll collection as well as all my...

Early Doll Group Depicts Washington's Death

By Waldo Hopkins — About a quarter of a century ago habitant groups and small-scale models of historic events and places appeared in our museums and similar public places. It was considered a most modern and dramatic way to present natural and recorded history to school children and the public at large. It still is, for that matter, and has been further developed in Mrs. Thorne's series of American rooms in miniature and in the realistic scenes in miniature exhibited in the New Zealand pavillion at the New...