Black Doll Collecting

Nancy Green by Albert E. Price, Inc., 1984

A museum patron asked if I owned this porcelain portrait doll of Nancy Green, a duplicate in his collection. Because I did not, he sent me his duplicate doll.

This 16-inch portrait doll manufactured by Albert E. Price, Inc. in 1984 has a stuffed cloth body and partially stuffed arms and legs. The head, lower arms, lower legs, and feet are porcelain.

The Nancy Green doll has painted facial features and sculpted short hair underneath a white headscarf. The costume includes a red, green, and yellow plaid dress with a detached white apron, white pantaloons, sculpted white socks, and sculpted black shoes. 

The Price company is known to have produced this doll in 1980 and 1984 to represent the formerly enslaved woman whose mammy-maid/cook advertising character helped promote R. T. Davis Milling Company's Aunt Jemima products. 

The front and back of the doll's dress tag identify the manufacturer and the production year.

The front of the dress tag identifies the doll's manufacturer.

The manufacturer and 1984 as the production year are on the back of the dress tag.

Born on March 4, 1834, the real Nancy Green became financially secure as "the advertising world's first living trademark" until her tragic death in a car accident in 1923 (Nancy Green).

The donor's doll, made in 1980 by Price, is installed in DeeBeeGee's Virtual Black Doll Museum. 

References:

Nancy Green, The Original 'Aunt Jemima'

Nancy Green "Aunt Jemima" VBDM installation

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