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Show Historical doll museum opens new wing i Doll lovers could spend a week at the McCurdy Historical Doll Museum, and not ! examine all the dolls or learn the history behind them. Located at 246 North 100 East in Provo, the museum last week opened the new Jessie McCurdy Lamont Wing and put an additional 500-plus dolls on display for visitors enjoyment. Included are Madame Alexanders, Shirley Temples, the Mary Johnson Collection and many others. The museum, started by Shirley Paxman, tells the history of the United States through dolls and their dresses. It contains dolls from many collections, and of everything from "rags" to china and porcelin as well as many popular and well-known modern dolls. The museum sponsors a Utah Endowment for " the Humanities funded series on "Cultural Reflections as seen through Dolls and Toys," has a doll and toy sale for fund-raising and are planning a "Toys and Joys of Christmas" show in December with many beautiful exhibits of Creches, Antique Dolls and Toys, Nutcrackers, Toy' Soldiers, Mechanical Toys, and a collection of the magnificent Santons, the famous Nativity figures from France. |