Black Nurse Dolls

Linda Strodtman and Laura Noon's article, "Black Nurse Dolls Part 1," in the Fall 2026 issue of UFDC's Doll News focuses on the historical Black nurse doll and includes three Harriet Tubman dolls from Dee Bee Gee's Virtual Black Doll Museum.

The article includes a photograph of Harriet Tubman's tombstone at Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn, New York. The front of the tombstone reads:

To The Memory Of

HARRIET TUBMAN DAVIS

Heroine of the Underground Railroad.

Nurse and Scout in the Civil War:

Born about 1820 in Maryland.

Died March 10, 1913 at Auburn, N.Y.

"Servant of God, Well Done"

Erected by the

Empire State Federation of Womens Clubs

July 5, 1937

The doll pictured in the table of contents represents Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845–1926), the first African American to earn a professional nursing license and graduate from an American nursing school. 

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