Madame Paderewski's dolls (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Madame Paderewski's dolls
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the
negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.19749
Call Number: LC-B2- 3573-11
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B-59 (3 weeks ago | reply)
Helena Paderewski was the wife of the pianist and later second Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland Ignacy Jan Paderewski.
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Paderewska (polish)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacy_Jan_Paderewski
She sold her collection of dolls in order to maintain the Relief Fund for Polish War Victims
(The Pittsburgh Press, January 9, 1916 news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=1 9160109&...)
“Madame Paderewski while in Paris late in 1915 conceived the idea of selling dolls for the benefit of the Polish Relief Fund. These wonderful dolls are made by the Polish refugees in Paris — artists, sculptors, writers — all people of talent and many of them well-known ; by engaging them to make the dolls Madame Paderewski has not only been able to provide support for these gifted workers, but she has been able to raise in this way more than $25,000, having sold about 10,000 dolls. “
(quotation from www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/ida-clyde-gall agher-clarke...)
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