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The original McLaughlin Dolhouse closed was 13 square x 1 inch

• Inside cover top shows the information from the original advertisement as follows:
• The house folds down to 13 x 13 x 1 inch. It makes 4 rooms:
Parlor
Dining-room
Bed-room
Kitchen
• Each 13 inch square, without roof, parted off by partitions 13 inches high. It is designed to be played with on a table. A number of little girls may thus get round it to the very best advantage. It is made out of stout binder's board covered with colored designs representing the carpets, walls, windows, mantels, etc. as seen in houses. It is designed to be furnished with paper or other small furniture, and to be occupied by paper or other small dolls. Single rooms are also put up, instead of four rooms together.

• Mine is a reproduction of a paper toy originally designed as 13 x 13 x 1" by McLoughlin Bros. New York.
• Box to hold the Dollhouse 3-1/4" square x 1/2" High.
• Dollhouse opens up to a 6" square x 3" High.
• Dollhouse closed is 3" square x 1/4" High

This is my sculpture of the 'Geneseo Bear"  9 inches high. 
He is in for repairs as he jumped off a shelf.  He is ok, just the street light is off kilter.

      

The Bronze Bear
The Bronze Bear Fountain is on Main Street, Geneseo, New York
 
Just off campus, in the center of Main Street in Geneseo sits the famous Bronze Bear statue. "The Bear"
also plays host to any number of spontaneous decorations and pranks throughout the academic year. A
story also circulates that one of the wealthy Wadsworth daughters saw the bear fountain in a small town in
Germany, fell in love with it, bought it, and sent it back to Geneseo in the early 19th century. This story is
unverified, but an excerpt from a history of the family that settled the valley implies that this is not true,
and that the fountain was designed and built for its current location: "[Main Street] is still dominated by a
drinking fountain for horses dedicated to Mrs. Emmeline Austin Wadsworth. For some obscure reason its
designer placed a short pole in its center on top of which sits a cunning little iron bear, who is generally
known as 'Aunt Emmeline'.
Reference:
The Wadsworths of the Genesee. New York: Coward-McCann. 1959. pp. 205.

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- See the tiny golf clubs and pedal on the floor.

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Does a Tortoise have a tail?  Google says yes and no. - so which is it?

While on a field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago, Ruthie and Jack discover the Thorne Rooms—sixty-eight intricately miniature rooms of varying time periods that captivate both of them. As they visit the rooms, they happen upon a magical key that shrinks them to a height of five inches. Later, the pair finds a way to sneak into the museum, shrink and visit the actual interiors of the Thorne rooms. But Ruthie and Jack discover there is far more to the rooms than meets the eye. Click here to read more.

Below, Miguel Hernandez, shares his memories of Richard Cook (The Independent’s Obituary).

It is with great sadness that we share the news that Richard Cook passed away on August 25th, of cancer. He was a wealth of knowledge on jazz music, appropriate considering he authored Richard Cook’s Jazz Encyclopedia, It’s About Time and co-authored the monumental Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. (more…)

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