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Re: your advice needed - not on Virginia history
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"Stephan A. Schwartz" <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 5 Feb 2003 17:44:32 -0500
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Joan --

You have probably already thought of all this, so apologies if I am telling
you how to blow eggs, but I would start with "historic dolls".  But, even
more to the point, doll collecting is a subject of very intense interest,
and there are a number of organizations that service this interest.  That is
where I would start.  Even I, a middle-aged man with no special interest in
dolls, know about the Paderewski collection, so I am assuming many people
with that special interest will know far more.  I would also contact the
cultural attache of the Polish embassy in D.C. and see if they can put you
in touch with a scholar in Poland who has this interest.

Finally, I would try the University of Michigan micho-fiche archive, and
query whether someone has written a thesis or dissertation on this.

Hope this helps.

-- Stephan




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on 1/31/03 4:14 PM, Joan Logan Brooks at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> I need advice about how to research something online.
> 
> I want to learn more about 10,000 Polish ethnic dolls which Madame Helena
> Paderewski had made in her Paris atelier in 1915, the funds from which went to
> the Polish Relief Fund.
> 
> The ONLY direct reference I have located in many hours of searching online is
> in "American Women and the World War Chapter XXXVII" by Ida Clyde Clark, page
> 1.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a search engine or search phrase that might give more
> information and perhaps photos or at least a museum where some of the dolls
> are stored?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Joan Logan Brooks
> 
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