Bisque doll head from the excavation of a privy at 1304 Howard Street
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Painted porcelain and bisque (or unglazed porcelain) dolls were a common feature of nineteenth-century households, where they formed a source of recreation and education for boys and girls.
This file appears in: Archaeology of the Melpomene Neighborhood at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Excavation of a Privy at 1304 Howard/LaSalle
Archaeology of the Melpomene Neighborhood at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Excavation of a Privy at 1304 Howard/LaSalle
In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, many of the people who lived in the Melpomene neighborhood of Central City rented their residences with some addresses seeing rapid turnover. …