Storybook Dolls

In San Francisco in 1936, doll maker Nancy Ann Abbott started a business that became the Nancy Ann Storybook Doll Company in 1945. Nancy Ann Storybook dolls were made of painted bisque until the mid-1940s, when hard plastic dolls were introduced. The dolls were often issued in series—Little Sister, Mother Goose Rhymes, Around the World, […]