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A lot of paper ephemera associated with Dickinson including, in the upper left,
an original photograph of the small sized Heizer dolls created in 1940.
Courtesy of Leland Auctions August 2006 sale of Dickinson related papers.

For several decades, beginning in the later 1930s, women visiting Washington D.C.'s Museum of American
History had two must see opportunities for viewing historic costume - the hall devoted to First Ladies
gowns and a collection of statuesque dolls commissioned from Heizer by Mrs. Frank B. Noyes, the wife of a
newspaper publisher. Most of the dolls had been inspired by lifetime images and were truly soft sculpture
of the highest order with wire armature forms, handcrafted and detailed clothes and hand painted features
immediately identifiable with the subject. Heizer's execution and attention to detail and scale is remarkable
and is part of her dolls' wow factor.
Heizer, whose Quincy relatives had produced American presidents, began making simple cloth dolls
suitable for children in the 1920s. She offered patterns and construction hints to women's periodicals of the
day, such as Modern Priscilla, before developing her more iconic wire armature dolls aimed at adults with their
faces of hand painted silk crepe. For all her historical dolls Heizer preferred new fabric to old. These largely
special-order dolls ranged, based on the height of a six-foot man without elaborate hair, from:
	
Small		
1 11/16 " = 1 foot or a 10 1/8 " doll
	
Medium	
2 ¼ " = 1 foot or a 13 ½ " doll
	
Large		
2 3/8 " = 1 foot or a 14 ¼ " doll
	
Extra-large	
2 5/8 " = 1 foot or a 15 ¾ " doll
While we have a rough height chart for Heizer dolls, because they were hand crafted and some of the
subjects were not as tall as the chart details, there are some still shorter dolls.
A variety of them would be sold by Dickinson from her shops. In recollections of his mother's work,
documented in Dorothy Heizer, The Artist and Her Doll by Helen Bullard, Heizer's son McCaughan recalls that
during the fall of 1938 Dickinson came not to New Jersey but to the Heizer family summer cottage in Maine
where she gathered to take back to New York City on consignment a small contemporary girl in dirndl dress,
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