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Romanian immigrant Nicholas Orashan poses with Of!e of ~he violins he crafted in the years following hzs retirement as a Salem shoemaker.

By Lois Firestone

T HEY JOSTLED FOR STANDING space on the ship's deck, the weary immigrants

who had been jammed for weeks into the crowded staterooms below. Finally, they could see in the disfance the jutting buildings of New York City and the towering Statue of Liberty, symbols of the freedom which had eluded them in the countries where they'd been born.

Then· came the clamor and confusion of Ellis Island.

Large numbered tags were pinned to their coats as they filed ashore into the immigration station teeming with shouting guards and people speaking a variety of languages.

Emilia Sanders was only 4 years old but she remembers the day she stepped onto American soil with her parents, Nicholas and Ludovica Orashan. The long trip from the Romanian city of Becoean in Transylvania had been filled with elation tinged with apprehension.

Aboard ship, word had sifted through the fore and aft decks about the hurdle ahead of them: they called Ellis Island the "Island of Tears." If they didn't pass the medical and legal inspections there,

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The docks and the Ellis Island immigration depot are shown in this early 1900 postcard published by the Photo & Art Postal Card Co. of New York;

the people were warned, they'd be sent back. It was whispered that if an inspector marked an "E" in chalk on a coat they would be deported. But if instead they were handed landing papers, they were free to go.

"We were berded like cattle into a big room and pushed in groups along railings that divided the room into several passageways," Mrs. Sanders remembers. An inspector looked closely at the face, hair, neck and hands of the newcomer, then asked the age and what kind of work he or she could do.

One doctor inspected for diseases and another for eye problems. The final test was whether the answers they gave to questions about job pros­pects, money and sponsoring relatives were acceptable.

Tfie last stop was before a stem official who riddled the immigrant with questions like "Can you read and write?" "Who paid your passage?" "How much money do you have with you?" "Have you ever been in prison?"

The Orashans - mother and father, Emilia, Earl and Victor - made it through, armed with a train ticket to Niles, Ohio. The family wasn't destined to live there, though; they would settle in the bustling

town of Salem where they bought property along 296 S. Ellsworth Ave. In 1906, with the help of friends, Orashan got a job with the Spidel Shoe Co. in Salem as a shoemaker, a trade he had learned as a cobbler's apprentice in Romania when he was in his early teens.

The shoemaking business gradually declined as man-made materials began replacing leather in shoe manufacture, so Orashan decided to go into business for himself irf a building along Broadway Avenue. Later, he built a two-story brick shop on. Wilson Street behind his home.

For nearly five decades, he cut and glued leather shoes - a specialty was orthopedic sboes - and repaired them. When he was 65 he decided to retire to devote time to his violin making, some­thing he'd been itching to do since he was a young man in Romania.

He had carved a violin from a wagon wheel hub when he was a youngster, and had taught himself to play the instrument. In retirement, unable to· play because of a broken little finger on his left hand, Orashan settled for making and repairing violins - people came from around the country to

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From a kid's perspective By Lois Firestone

As I pored over the story of D-Day when we were selecting this week's front page from the past I thought back to that time, remembering bits and pieces from those years - I was 9 when the war started and moving into my teens when the end finally came. The strutting Adolph Hitler was the villain and his symbol was the swastika. I puzzled over that because my mother's bank passbook had the same design on its cover: I wondered how the First National Bank could so openly back the Nazis and get away with it (That institution, and others who were using the ancient symbol, quickly changed their logos).

I worried- most of the time over the safety of my cousins, uncles and neighbors who were fighting the war - I still treasure the bright blue metal cannister filled with Nazi armbands, pins, epaulets and uni­form insignia my uncle Clyde brought back from Germany for me - and I spent hours every week writing lefl:ers on the tiny V-Mail stationery we were required to use for overseas sending.

So I wasn't too concerned about inconveniences on the "home front." I do know that it was a big­treat for us three kids to get a new pair of shoes or a coat because of "rationing," a subject my mother was always talking about. She bought the shoes, clothes, sugar and butter with the coupons she tore from ration books, and when the stamps were gone, that was that.

Companies put out a white-colored substitute for butter, oleomargarine. Each package came with an orange powder she mixed into the white stuff to make it look more like butter. But it didn't, and it didn't taste like it either. She used honey and maple syrup in lieu of sugar, and baking powder instead of eggs in her recipes, I remember. She got a lot of ideas from her Victory Cookbook.

Nylon hose were precious - nylon was being used to make parachutes and other war essentials -and in those days women's hose had seam lines run­ning down the center back leg. I was intrigued by a magazine article back then which told women how to use a dye on the legs and a pencil you could buy to make those lines.

Retreads were common, too, because tires were impossible to get. So were the autos and trucks to put them on. And refrigerators and stoves. Just about everything. _

Then the war was over and everyone became prosperous. And eight years later Dwight D. Eisen­hower was elected the 34th president. It was my first year to vote, and I was elated when my childhood hero, World War U's supreme commander of the Allies, won.

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Nicholas Orashan created this viola with its unusual carved head and donated the instrument to the Salem Historical Society Museum where it is on permanent display. Orashan also was adept at marquetry, decorative inlaid work on furniture and accessories, like picture frames.

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have their instruments repaired. He made 20 in all from tools he made himself

drawing from a collection of wood, some specially ordered but most picked up from old buildings tom down around town. The pieces of mahogany, bird's eye maple, ebony, cherry and oak were cured and stored on the rafters of his shop. His masterpiece was a violin case made of about 30,000 minute pieces of wood.

He was 99 when he passed away 12 hours after he was hit by a motorist when crossing Salem's main street, on Sept. 16, 1986. The lessons he taught his family about his heritage and· the joy of living in free America weren't forgotten. His granddaughter, Elaine Weinstein of Stanhope, New Jersey :remembers: ''Neither Grandma nor Grandpa made a point of teaching me Romanian or insisted that I learn the mores o:r folkways of the ethnic community .. .! wish they would have but I under­stand that they were :really trying to blend into this gigantic melting pot to which they had committed their allegiance ... So many times I tried to tell him how grateful I was but it seemed as though he just knew a very long time before I ever came along that the rig"-t place for him and his family was right here ... h-. might visit with some friends that would stop at the house during his lunchtime and they woula talk in a mixture of English and Roma­nian. They had wonderful names, like Balan, Taf­lan, Buta, Copacia, Gliger and Costa ... They gave me a feeling oI my heritage that is very strong."

More than 17 million people entered the United States through Ellis Island from the day it was opened on Jan. 1, 1892 until it closed on Nov. 29 1954. Today their descendants number over 100

A batch of newly arri_ved immigrants pa~iently a'?ait ~heir turns, 1_1lOVing from stall to stall, to be checked by ~actors anq legal ~nspectors b~fore bems admitted mto the Umted States. This interior view published by rhe Detroit Publishing Co. m 1907 is rare and thus a collectible item.

The ceilings !Vere peeling and walls and posts had fallen into disrepair by 1982 when President Ronald; Reagqn app~mted Lee Iacocca to spearhead a fundraising campaign to restore and preserve Ellis Island The island is part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument. ·

million, nearly half the U. S. population. The original buildings were gutted by fire in

1897, but the trapped hundreds were evacuated safely. The main building, where immigrants went through legal a~d medical processin& was built in 1900. From 1917 to 1919 the islana was also a detention center for enemy aliens.

A way station for Navy personnel and the Coast Guard and an Army hospital operated on the island for several years. Later on, after mass immigration ended in 1924, Ellis Island doubled as a deportation center for immigrants whose citizen­ship status was questioned.

President Lyndon Johnson, in a formal procla­mation, declared the island part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965. By 1982, both the statue and the island were in a sad state of deterioration, and President Ronald Reagan named Lee Iacocca to head a fundraising campaign to restore and preserve what had become prominent tourist attractions.

Work on the $160 million restorations got under­~ay two years later. Last Sept. 10 the refurbished island was re-opened. For Mrs. Sanders, a moving· moment was seeing her parents' names - the Orashan family is listed on panel 307 - among the

200,000 inscri0ed on the wall of honor in the regi­stry room's Great Hall.

"Everyone should go, to tour the island and walk up inside the statue," Mrs. Sanders says. "They should kneel down and kiss it."

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James Smith of New Albany recognized the. painting entitled "Building with Domed Top" as a view of the old New Albany brick yard. His wife, Betty, called me Sunday with the news. She spoke for her husband, who is recouperating from an operation.

James grew up in New Albany in the house shown on the right above the dome of the brick oven in the painting. The house, a log cabin, was dismantled in 1988 and the the logs used to build another house. Smith remembers when he was a child seeing Charles Burchfield sketching scenes in New Albany. He believes the brick yard went out of business in the early 1920s.

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udats are spinning wheel professionals By Dale E. Shaffer

0 ARTIFACT IS MORE symbolic of early America than the spinning wheel. Recently,

the Salem Historical Museum had its two spinning wheels :restored to working condition by Eric Gudat of Washingtonville. He is considered the area's expert in building and :reconditioning spin­ning wheels. The:r~ a:r~, in fact, f~w such c:raftsm_en in the country. His wife, Cathenne does the spm­ning, giving demonstrations at museums, Beaver Creek State Pa:rk, Wick Park, Winona Flax Scutch­ing, and various other festivals throughout the area.

Gudat is a :retired pattern maker. He worked at the Crescent Machine Co. in Leetonia and the Youngstown Cabinet Works. His crafted moldings, showcases and other fancy woodworking went in to the May Co. and various other stores through­out the country.

Spinning is the process of holding a mass of fib­ers and twisting a few of them as they are pulled from the loose mass. The :rhythm is "first -twist, then pull."

People have been spinning fo:r at least 7,000 years. Archaeological finds of yam in Egypt, Baby­lonia, Mesopotamia and China provide proof of that fact. Fo:r thousands of years, fou:r fibers -linen, wool, cotton and silk - have been supplying man's need for cloth.

Actually, almost anythl~g t_hat is long, thin_ and flexible can be spun. This mcludes the hair of many animals, fibers of certain plants and v_a:rious dry grasses. When the pioneers blended wool and linen together they called the fiber "linsey­woolsey." "Tow" was ya:rn spun from the short rough fibers combed out of the finer flax.

The first form of spinning was twisting by hand. Someone then discovered the hand spindle which was a stick with a weight that spun like a top. As the spindle :revolved, the yarn would twist and wind around the shaft. This tool was used fo:r almost 6,500· years. It eventually evolved into the spinning wheel.

Use of a wheel to assist in the spinning process first came about in the 13th century in the Far East. It was used to simply wind yard from the spindle into a skein so it could be washed and dyed. Later, the spindle was mounted on a belt-driven wheel.

In colonial times not all homes had looms for weaving, but most had spinning wheels. Women spun flax on the Saxony wheel in the summer to produce linen thread, and spun wool yam on the large wheel in the winter. Flax was grown in the fields; wool came from the sheep. Five sheep could provide clothing, blankets and fabric for a family of five people. Thirty pounds of fleece could pro­duce enough cloth to make a cloak, jacket and pai:r of britches.

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of every household. Most families had their own handmade fabrics. It took a lot of spinning to make blankets sheets, tablecloths, towels, shirts, dresses, petticoats, night caps and various other items of clothing. From the newborn baby's red woolen birthday blanket to the linen burial clothes of the deceased, the fabrics all came from the hands of spinners.

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daughter and maiden aunts. Both girls and boys were often taught to spin at an early age. They began on the large wool wheel, then moved on to the more demanding flax wheel. .

Spinners learned to d:raw (draft) fibers from a distaff (a cage-like holder of the flax) or from the wool rolag (carded wool). A foot treadle turned the wheel that wound the finished thread onto a bobbin.

This king-size spinning wheel (also referred to as the great wheel or high whee_l), with t~o short legs in front and one long one m b~ck, is th~ olde~t style, having originated in India. Its spmdle is directly driven by a large wheelco:rd.

The name "walking wheel" came from the con­stant action by the spinner of moving toward a'.ld away from the spindle during the process. With the hum of the wheel, the spinner stepped ba~k­ward quickly - one, _two,. three steps .- holdmg high the long yam as it twisted and qmve:red. The spinner sudde,nly glided forw~rd, the_ mov~ment winding the yarn onto the spmdle. Six skems of yarn a day was considered a. good day'~ work. This amounted to about 20 miles of walkmg.

Some wool wheels were artistic masterpieces. Spokes were turned on a .l~the. in su~~ a ""'.ay t? add weight to the wheel, g1vmg it additional merti­a so the spinner would not have to work as ~ard to maintain the wheel's· momentum. To spm the wheel, the ope:rato:r either pushed the spokes around by hand, or used a wooden rod. - The Saxony style flax wheel has been around for

centuries. In 1530 a German named Johann Jurgen contributed the idea of the treadle, which freed the spinner's hands. . .

This wheel has been the symbol of p1oneermg spirit in America for a long time. We have all seen

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The wheel still represents the world of antiques, appearing on signs of shops, letterheads and busi­ness cards. One of the first things purchased by people interested in furnishing their homes with antiques is a flax spinning wheel.

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A spinner of flax dips the fingers in water to moisten the flax and help hold the fibers together until thev are firmly twisted into thread. Establish­ing a rhythm, the spinner f>Ulls the flax fibers gent­lv with both hands while the foot works the freadlc.

Spinning wheels in early America were usually not homemade items. It took skilled craftsmen to nrnke them. Proud of their fine "York, they often stamped their names on the bottoms of the tables. Gudat still follows this practice.

The round parts of a spinning wheel were usual­lv made of maple, while the flat and square parts ..:\1ere of oak or beech. Most flax wheels were made to be disassembled so they could be easily trans­ported. Pioneers had limited space in their wagons when they headed west. Legs and wheel supports were simply tapered for insertion or removal by

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created by two Northern Ohio artists who for many years did nothing but draw towns. Oakley H. Bailey of Sebring drew the 1871 bird's-eye view of Salem and Albert Ruger, who had lived in Hud­son, created the 1886 view.

These artists did not sketch the town from a hot­air balloon, but walked the streets sketching indivi­dual buildings, then returned to a large master drawing and copied their new drawings onto the master. Bailey chose a view looking directly north­east and Ruger's perspective was more eastward and from a fower elevation. It's fun to pore over the map with a magnifying glass and compare the two views.

You'll notice that in 1871 a pond (complete with reflections of buildings) was at what became the Reilly field site. By 1886 the area had been drained and a few sheds were scattered in the area.

Notice too that Lundy Avenue didn't run south of State Street in 1871 but did, for one block only,

-in 1886. It dead-ended at a ditch, which was later filled in after a storm sewer was installed. The Timberlanes parking lot occupies part of what was that ditch.

The site of the Timberlanes at the northwest cor­ner of Penn and Pershing (then Dry) Street was occupied both in 1871 and in 1886 with a large building with a smoke stack. The 1886 map index identified it as the City Mills. However the build­ing was positioned north-south in 1871 and east­west in 1886. Was it tom down and rebuilt? Was there a fire? Or did an artist make a mistake? With enough research, a relentless local historian could probably find out.

Take a look at Bank Street, the east-west street now just east of the Sparkle Market. In 1886 it is shown to be running afong the edge of an embank­ment. Is that why it was named Bank Street? It figures.

The Columbia Street School (now the Sparkle Market site) featured a rear outside walkway that divided. One went to the boy's outhouse, the other to the girl's. These artists didn't miss a thing (So it's unlikely they made a mistake on the City Mills building.)

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One hg addition on the 1886 view is the Greiner-Brainard Hotel at the southwest corner of Lundy and S~ate S~re~t. G~nerally speaking, there were more big bmldmgs m downtown Salem in those years than there are now. . ~o compare the ~o ~omplete panoramic maps,

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About the artists Bailey and Ruger were among a forgotten group

of American artists who were truly amazing. They were a rare breed. Practical, enterprising, hard­selling, meticulous and indefatigable, they saw America as a land of opportunity and were willing to work hard to succeed: However, none were known to have died rich.

They thought on a grand scale. Frequently their panoramic maps included every structure in town.

One of Bailey's drawings of Atlantic City depicted six miles of boardwalk and hotels and measured 7 feet in length. Another artist, Camille N. Dry, prnduced drawings on 110 lithographic plates of St. Louis in 1875 . When trimmed and placed together, they created a panorama that mea­sured nine by 24 feet and depicted an area of 10 miles.

The speed of these artist-businessmen was astoundiii.g. Ruger was known to complete a draw­ing of a town in eight days, O.H. Bailey in 15 days. Bailey claimed to have drawn 600 maps in 55 years

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and Ruger is credited with 254 in 25 years. In-1869 alone he completed 60.

Their business methods involved a bit of hoopla and media manipulation. Frequently the artist and possibly his agent and publisher would come to a town and present the local newspaper editor with a press release about them being there. The story would say they were contemplating drawing a map of the town or maybe a map of a nearby or rival town. The story was intended to work up the natives and get them to hanker after a home town map.

A second story would say the artist was busy drawing the city. It announced that a preliminary drawing would soon be displayed to tfie public at a place where persons desiring a copy could sign a subscription list.

The third story would announce a time and place of the exhibition. Residents were invited to come and point out any errors the artist may have made in depicting their homes. The artist would happily correct any mistakes. Residents were urged to order extra copies of the map so they could be sent "to other places in the country to show how attractive and prosperous the town has become." The maps were lithographs and ranged in price from 75 cents to $10, but most went for $2 or $3.

A final story would appear a few months later announcing the arrival of the lithographs in town. By this time the artist had probably visited and drawn six or seven more towns.

The fad of the panoramic maps wore off pretty much in the 1890s when photo engravings were replacing lithography. And by the early 20th cen­tury airplane cameras could snap a town in a mini­second.

Ruger (1828-1899) is believed to be the first American panoramic artist to achieve success. He drew town in more than a dozen Midwestern and Eastern state and also in Nova Scotia. He lived for a time in Akron on the site of what is now the Tan­gier's Restaurant.

The Library of Con$1"ess, which contains 1,117 panoramic maps, lists m its catalog 198 ci_ty maps

drawn or published by Ruger or by the firm of Ruger & Stoner. Ruger had formed a partnership with J.J. Stoner of Madison, Wisconsin in the late 1860s. Ruger was also known to have drawn panoramic views of various colleges.

O.H. Bailey (1843-1947) began drawing towns in 1871, the same year of his Salem map. His brother Howard (1836- 1878) had begun the business a

0. H. Bailey had the longest career of any panor­amic view artist. He made maps over a span of 55 years and lived to the age of 104. Here he is shown as a young man, probably at the time he was a stu­dent at Mount Union College in Alliance.

year before. The brothers were the sons of farmer Hoopes

Baily. (The brothers added an "e" to their name.) They lived on a farm that is now part of the town of Sebring. The father was a Quaker, a supporter of the anti-slavery cause, and a friend of Marious R. Robinson, the noted abolitionist lecturer and editor from Salem. The Baily homestead, "Beech Cot­tage," was an Underground Railroad station, according to a Library of Congress publication.

O.H. attended Mount Union College, then joined the Union Army in 1864 during the Civil War. He served mosty garrison . duty in his 100-day stint · then returned to Mount Union where he graduated in 1866. He taught school briefly before going on to draw towns.

When he died in 1947, the Alliance newspaper obituary noted that he had been the second-to-fast surviving local Civil War veteran but gave only scant mention of his panoramic mapmaking career. Such is the fame of forgotten_ artists.

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Dolls evolved from idols to playthings By Dotti Miller

FLEMISH PAINTER PIETER Brueghel the elder, in his 1560 masterpiece entitlea "Children's

Games" depicts children of his era at play, dressing dolls, shooting marbles, tossing jacks and spinning hoops - among 88 activities portrayed in the painting.

Many playthings and games enjoyed by today's children were cherished by children over 500 years ago. And, according to Caroline Lehwald, a local historian and avid doll collector, several of these toys and games, including playing with dolls, were a favorite pastime of Greek and Roman children nearly 2600 years earlier.

Caroline also notes that history records the exis­tence of dolls before 3000 B.C. An Egyptian tomb bearing the remains of a child buried in that year also contained a painted doll carved of wood. Although meant to serve as religious objects, ancient dolls often became the cherished posses­sions of children.

The first doll, probably an idol or statuette, was made to house tne soul of a "dear departed" rela­tive, probably not for altruistic purposes, but to keep the unseen from bothering the living mem­bers of the family.

The transition from dolls as idols to dolls as toys occurred when figurines began to resemble ordin­ary human beings such as Egyptian servants. Although it was sacreligious for a child to play with a day idol, it was acceptable when the figur­ine represented a mere mortal. The early toy dolls were miniatures of adults.

Caroline says that according to historians, the Hopi Indians used to give tlieir cult images to chifdren to play with at the end of their ceremo­nies. These were miniature dolls, exact replicas of the katchinas, the spirits of earth and sky, imperso­nated by masked and painted Indians wearing ela­borate feathered headdresses.

Clay dolls have been discovered in Mexico, marked with the insignia of the sun and belonging to cults of the ancient Aztecs reportedly dating from the year 1000 B.C.

While most ancient dolls were homemade of common day, rags, wood or bone, better examples were created of ivory or wax terra-cotta, baked reddish-brown day.

Then, as now, the main object of doHmakers was to achieve realism. Some of the dolls as early at 600 B.C. had movable limbs and removable garments.

The first dolls commercially produced as child­ren's toys were made in Germany during the 14th century. Although the production methods were crude, the "lady'' doll products were impressive. They were created of papier mache (paper and glue), in addition to the traditional wood, day, rags and wax materials and were dressed in cos­tumes to rerresent German women of that period.

In the 15th century, doll factories sprung up in England, France, Holland and Italy and by the ear­ly 17th century, merchants were proudly showing their ornately dressed "lady" dolls at trade fairs in Venice and Florence. At tfus time European com­petition was keen.

By the early 1600s basic qualities were improved. Dolls' heads were fashioned out of glazed stone­ware; later tragacanth (a gum derived from an Asian plant) and alabaster (a soft gypsum that resembles marble) were used.

Firsts were marked in 1636 when a doll with moving glass eyes was created in Holland and in 1675 when a firm featured dolls sporting wigs of human hair.

A discovery in the early 18th century made a big difference in dolls. Dollmakers found that soft leather could be treated to feel like human skin and was used to cover the dolls' torsos and limbs. Although, up until 1710, virtually all dolls were designed as adults, one manufacturer introduced a wax "infant" doll with removable eyes and a cry-

Celebratin$ the holiday with a tea, to be served on Christmas tree printed place settings made by the Salem China Company are three lovely "ladies." Seated from left are a reprodudion of an 1800s China head doll complete with earrings and original bisque dolls from the early 1900s.

An excellent replica of a Grace Putnam Bye-lo baby from the 1920s is ready for a nap in the unique doll room at the Lehwald residence. The baby is resting in an antique wicker cradle which formerly belonged to Miss Elizabeth Horn, a principal at the former Columbia Street School.

ing voice. In 1737 walking dolls were introduced in Paris.

While dolls began to look, feel and move more like humans, the popularity of the high. fashion "lady'' dolls remained paramount. Such dolls were often used to iUustrat~ ·style trends and were sent from one county to another to show the latest fashions.

According to Funk and Wagnall' s encyclopedia, 19th century progt:ess was extraordinary. A major development before 1850 was the introduction of ball joints, giving dolls more flexibility with their limbs. New materials introduced at this time included gutta-percha, (a rubber like Malayan gum), glazed porcelain, unglazed parian (soft bod­ied china), India rubber and bisque. Before the dolls were painted, imperfections were covered with gesso, a mixture of plaster of Paris and glue.

Events in the seco'.l:ld half of the 19th century altered the course of the doll industry.

Among unbreakable materials, rubber enjoyed the first "vogue." Thomas Forster improved the use of India rubber by casting it in molds for the parts of dolls in 1844 and Edward Payne in 1849 molded and joined hollow figurines such as child­~en' s d~Hs. A piece of compound was boiled until 1t was m a soft state ready for a mold, and the

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Nobody can resist a Rose O'Neill Kewpie doll, especially reproductions of a bridal couple from the 1920s. Sharing the moment with the bridal couple is an original Kewpie, "Scoodles," which took sec­ond place honors at the Wayne County doll show in Wooster in 1983.

Popular "turtle" marked celluloid dolls, which were popular although they were found to be flammable, share a wicker rocker with a treasured bisque doll from the 1930s featuring an open mouth with porcelain teeth and a human hair wig.

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molds were then pressed together by means of a red hot iron and the ends were trimmed off.

In America, Charles Goodyear made experi­ments with rubber and in 1851 his brother, Nelson Goodyear, took out a patent for hard rubber. Goo­dyear dolls were made in all sizes and doll heads are still found with the inscription "Goodyear Pat. May 5, 1851.

In 1860, the first "baby" doll that could sit upright was introduced in Europe and in 1861 manufactures introduced metal heads. In the meantime they experimented with composition (a mixture of varied pastes with other undisclosed ingredients) which could be molded into smooth, practically unbreakable heads.

Akin to rubber was celluloid, which was wash­able and thus considered sanitary. A compressed solution of nitrated cellulose in camphor, it was originally an English invention,· but was actually devloped for toy manufactures by an American named Hyatt. The first used for making dolls was in the 1880s, with the early dolls made all in one piece. Jointed dolls with glass eyes, even sleeping eyes and set-in teeth soon followed. One of the most famous celluloid dolls were the Kewpie dolls with their characteristic happy smiling faces, turned up noses and kiss curls .on their cheeks.

In 1865, the first American doll manufacturing enterprise (other than rubber) was founded by E. I. Horsman. At least 10 similar operations followed suit in the U.S. by 1900. These firms imported French or German bisque and composition heads and limbs for assembly with their own, domestical­ly produced bodies and by the end of the century the overwhelming preference had changed from "lady" dolls to "baby" dolls.

In 1905, American manufactures featured rag dolls with mask faces and in 1906 dolls of pressed felt with celluloid faces were introduced.

Keepsakes representing the "wedding of the cen­tury" are these elegant replicas of Prince Charles

.and Princess Diana on their wedding day.

The year 1909 saw European ''baby" dolls with bent legs, also the "Billiken," the first American character dolls which were fashioned after famous personalities and characters.

The famous "Campbell Kids" were introduced in 1911; Rose O'Neill's charming "Kewpie" followed in 1913; and in 1915 Johnny Gruelle, a cartoonist, originated "Raggedy Ann." By 1917 the quality of bisques in the Unied States was quite gooa and by the end of World War 1, the U.S. was a leading contender in the doll manufacturing world.

Early postwar concepts were marl<ed in 1922 by the "perfect'' life-sized three-day-old infant and by the scientifically proportioned Bye-lo Baby from Germany.

Multi-headed dolls were featured in 1923 and the first fully jointed dolls (Hebe-Shebe) were introduced in 1925. ·

Innovations worthy of mention between 1925 and World War II were sleeping eyes with lashes, dimpled cheeks, open mouths with tiny teeth, fin­gers with nails and drink and wet dolls of latex rubber. Following the war vinyl plastics were introduced, providing toyrnakers with the kind of basic material they had been searching for.

The late 20th century dolls of vinyl appear and feel as if alive and many are equipped with various action features that enable them to behave as if they are alive.

Dolls of today have hearts that actually beat and facial expressions that change. Hair can be repeatedly washed, dried, combed, curled and set and certain dolls can cry wet tears, suck their thumbs, drink and wet, laugh, blow bubbles, crawl, sing, dance and write. They feature a large variety of wardrobe changes and accessories.

The winsome Sasha dolfs designed by the Swiss dollmaker Sasha Morgenthaler have skin tones approximating those of several different ethnic groups and include boy as well as girl dolls.

Commentin9, on th electronic effect on dolls, Car­oline said the 'talking feature" in dolls is not really new. Thomas Edison invented a talking doll as ear­ly as the 1800s. Talking dolls of the 1920s featured a phonograph with a set of groved wax cylinders. To operate the talking mechanism you simply popped a cylinder into the hole in the doll's back, wind a small crank on her side and enjoy the sound of "dollyspeak." The 1920s version featured nursery rhymes which were emitted from a hole in the doll's stomach.

"If you li.ke dolls you have to like history," Caro­line believes. "A serious collector needs to be well informed. not only about the doll in question but

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Caroline Lehwald, curator-director of the Salem Historical Society Museum and an avid doll collec­tor, sits with some of her favorite dolls. She's hold­ing a recently purchased doll, "Daisy_," a Teri DeHetre original. The dolls at her side, created by a Leetonia artist Linda Steele, are replicas of her granddaughters Sarah Carter (left), 13, and her sis­ter, Carne Carter, 9, of Michigan. At Caroline's feet is "Darcy," a Robin Woods original.

proper period clothing." She researches her "finds" in reference texts like "The Collectors Encylopedia of Dolls" by mother and daughters Dorothy S., Eli­zabeth A. and Evelyn J. Coleman. The book, a gift to Caroline from her husband, is lovingly signed "to my favorite doll."

To say Caroline is a history buff would be an understatement. For the past 19 years, she has divided her time between the Salem Historical Soc­iety Museum where she is curator-director, to her residence which houses not only an extensive doll collection but other prized collections including books, postcards, valentines, plates, toys, bears and Christmas memorabilia.

The dolls, over 300 ranging in height from 1 to 48 inches and, for the most part, dressed in period attire, occupy a large, quaint attic room of the home she shares with her husband, Dr. Carl Leh­wald. While such dolls as the Cabbage Patch kids, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Barbie and Princess Di, can be found at the Lehwald residence, the most pre­dominate occupant is the antique doll.

Caroline's unique collection of dolls, which would delight children of all ages, includes a life­size doll mOdeled after a three-day old baby; wax dolls and figurines; Shirley Temple dolls made by different companies at different times; delightful school-aged. children and elegant Victorian ladies dressed in satin with a touch of laces and ribbons that are true to the tum of the century.

Humpty Dumpty is comfortable on one shelf while across the room youthful replicas of the fam­ous Dionne quintuplets share a rocker; four love­able friends are set for an afternoon tea complete with Kate Greenaway serving pieces; and Cabbage Patch Kids are becoming acquainted with authentic Rice Paddy Dolls from Hong Kong.

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Her collection also includes the famous Bye-lo Baby created in the United States py Grace Storey Putnam, widow of a scuir.tor. The doll eventually became known as the "Million Dollar Baby'' based on its high volume sales. The dolls were made in Germany but distributed in the United States, being produced in different sizes be~een 1922 and 1933. The bisque doll reportedly was modeled after a three-day-old infant Ms. Putnam found in a Salvation Army hospital.

Many of Caroline's dolls are as soft to the touch as a favorite blanket and some are so beautiful :it's hard to tum away from them. The most elaborate and favorite dolls in Caroline's collection are Ger­man Dresden dolls with porcelain heads, French bisque dolls with ceramic heads, Par:ian dolls, including the Jumeau, Romanian dolls, Bru "bebes," Kathe Kruse creations, Armand Marseille German character children, early china heads and papier maches, composition personality dolls, Kate Greenaway, Sasha, Alexander, Madame Hendren, Eff anbee and Horsman dolls.

Most of the dolls are dressed in period attire and also for the season. With an impisn smile, Caroline admitted she enjoys not only making many of the outfits, but dressing them according to the time of year. Christmas is a big deal at the Lehwald resi­dence and is carried out in the doll room. Caroline noted that many of the dolls have their original wigs but to prevent them from deteriorating, she has stored them and put replicas on the dolls.

The dolls are grouped in lively settings depicting various eras, seasons and "occasions." Some are placed in Caroline's collection. of antique wicker cradles, carriages with vv-ooden whee1s, wicker buggies, in sleighs, antique rockers, wooden horses and high chairs. A favorite is an antique wooden stroller from the mid-1800s which belonged to Miss Elizabeth Horn, a principal at the former Columbia Street School.

Decorations in the doll haven, including Kate Greenaway and Tasha Tudor wallpaper, doll­related plates, paintings and pictures, add a histor­ic touch to the setting. Prized photos include a Bur­chfield painting, "My Childhood Garden," and one of Hans Christian Anderson surrounded with children. There are also framed advertising paper dolls and Dolly Dimples of Dingle Dell cut-out dolls by Grace Wiederseim Drayton. Paper dolls and early manufacturers' or distributors' cata­logues illustrating dolls are additional collector prizes, Caroline notes.

Caroline's collection is a result of many years of searching, especially when she and her husband, who is retirea after 50 years of practicing internal medicine, went on vacation. They have been in all 52 states and traveled abroad including the Orient, France, Germany and Hawaii.

Caroline admitted her real love affair with dolls was experienced as an adult. "As a youngster with a brother eight years older than me, I was more interested in playing outdoors than with my dolls," she said. She did recall her dolls being a comfort to her when as a third grader she suffered the flu over the holidays. Caroline, an avid reader, recalls lining her composition dolls up on the stair steps and assuming the role of school marm, spending hours reading to her "students."

At this point in her life Caroline couldn't decide if she wanted to be a teacher or a nurse. The medi­cal field impressed her - so much so she was the one kid in the neighborhood called upon when there was a need for a bandage or to have a tooth pulled.

Caroline still loves to show . off her original bisque doll, "Margaret," who stands 28 inches tall. She recalls receiving her last childhood doll when she was nine.

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In addition to collectors dolls from the early 1900s to the present, Caroline has a line of limited "Artist Dolls.'' Linda Steele of Leetonia is a favorite and has created for Caroline replicas of her grand­daughters. She also favors worl<s by Terri DeHetre for Legacy Dolls and Robin Woods' dolls.

Caroline began collecting dolls in the mid-1960s after she and Bernice Melitschka organized the loc­al Antique Study Group. At this time she decided to bring her dolls out of the attic, dress them up and use them in conjunction with talks on dolls for the club.

In her search for unusual dolls, Caroline started going to auctions in the area. She noted she prefers to purchase dolls whose owners resided in the area.

According to Caroline, China heads, which origi­nally sold for about $16, cost about $60 or $65 dol­lars when she first started collecting them. Today's price tag is between $150 and $200, depending on size and condition, she notes. She has broadened her knowledge of dolls by attending the annual doll show in Toledo in the fall.

Caroline, who appears to be a "face buyer," purchases dolls whose looks strike her fancy. She feels the doll, a child's best friend, should be hugg­able and simfle.

Speaking o doll collectors in general, Caroline said she "wholeheartedly believes that there is a trace of little girl in any woman, no matter her age, no matter how many real dolls she has to love and tend." She also said 'When I purchase a doll, I feel like I am buying a piece of tne owner's childhood history."

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According to Caroline, with the price of the aver­age old doll representing a purchase of several hundred dollars in today's doll market, the assembly of a doll collection becomes rather costly. Actually, she said, very few people buy dolls strict­lv as an investment. Most collectors buy a doll because they like it It appeals to them for some reason - as an object of artistic beauty, because it evokes some hnd of sentiment, or perhaps it fills a need that they feel or even speaks to something inside them. It is this personal feeling toward a doll which makes it valuable to the collector.

Mrs. Lehwald also noted that a collector's doll should tell a story. It may be a story of costume, manners, customs, tastes, unusual persons, events of the past or the present. She cites the service dolls of the early 1940s which have become part of the record of World War II just as the dolls sold at the Sanitary Fairs during the Civil War bcame a part of the story of that period. Regional dolls . reveal American occupation in various states; old dolls correctly costumed tell a story of the past; and foreign dolls dressed in colorful peasant cos­tumes of their representative countries contritute a valuable record. .

Dr. and Mrs. Lehwald have been residents of Salem for 55 years. They moved to Salem following her graduation as a registered nurse from a nurs­ing school in Akron, where Dr. Lehwald was an intern.

The couple have three children, Dr. James Leh­wald, a local dentist; Carol Horton of Canton, a first grade teacher; and Karen Carter of Plymouth, Mich., a former teacher. They also have six grand­children and two great-grandchildren.

With pride, Mrs. Lehwald notes that neither her children, grandchildren or great-grandchildren have ever broken any dolls in her collection. Of course, grandma has set aside a certain collection of dollies for the little ones to choose from to play with.

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I would also like to know the value of my Hummel No. 11 "Merry Wanderer" bearing this mark.

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Columbiana, Ohio (216) 482·4na

Walnut Empire Tester Bed, Hand·Carved 8·ft. Posts

. Salem, Ohio (216) 332-9853

licensed & Bonded in Favor of the State of Ohio

alnut Victorian 4· rw., 2 Glove Boxes w/Swivel

Mirror, Single Coat of White Paint

· Burl Walnut Transitional Empire Secretary