Resources

Index ||| Welcome ||| Mailbag ||| About the Editors ||| Collecting News ||| Profile of a Collector ||| Profile of an Artist ||| Doll in the Spotlight! ||| Doll Care Basics ||| Resources ||| FAQ ||| Closing Words

Publications:

• Black Dolls 1820-1991, an Identification and Value Guide
• Black Dolls an Identification and Value Guide, Book II
• The Patriot, Harrisburg, PA, Friday December 26, 1975 "Manufacturer Finds White Parents Buying Children Black Dolls"
• 1976 Los Angeles Associated Press article on "Shindana Dolls".
• 1986/1987 Edith Weems Black Doll Shoppe Catalogue/Newsletters

• Ashton-Drake Galleries: http://www.ashtondrake.com 
• Madame Alexander: http://www.alexanderdoll.com/
• Jan McLean Dolls: http://www.janmcleandolls.com/
• Zwergnase: http://www.zwergnase.com
• Barbie Bazaar: http://www.barbiebazaar.com/

Other:

• A special thanks to Ms. Jeannie DiMauro for the various informative emails we shared regarding the late, Mary Van Osdell, for providing the pictures of Mary's original dolls, and for the detailed descriptions she provided. Jeannie, you made Mary's artist's profile possible.
• A special thanks to Mr. Louis S. Smith, III. for his cyberfriendship. I am deeply indebted to you, Lou, for the wealth of information that you continue to provide with reference to your father, the late, Louis S. Smith, II., cofounder and President of Shindana Toys, a Division of Operation Bootstrap and former western regional director of C.O.R.E. (Congress of Racial Equality). The information you have provided has both enhanced my Shindana doll knowledge and my writings regarding Shindana Dolls. Thank you so much for helping me "keep the dream alive". Deb