Celluloid Dolls
Here's the info on celluloid dolls that appeared in the May, 1954 pamphlet called The Toy Trader which was the official publication of the Dollmakers Guild of Middletown, Connecticut. The article title is Celluloid Dolls and Doll Heads, by Luella Hart:
John Wesley Hyatt and his brother I. S Hyatt started a factory in Newark, New Jersey in 1870, known as the "Celluloid Manufacturing Company of New York.
W. B. Carpenter took out patent #235,933 on December 28, 1880 for a method of coloring eyebrows and hair of celluloid dolls. The following year, February 8, 1881, M. C. Lefferts and W. B. Carpenter received patent #237,559 for the actual doll itself. This appears to be the first Amercan-made celluloid doll. The specifications signified the entire doll was to be made of celluloid or some compound of pyroxyline.
John Wesley Hyatt and his brother I. S Hyatt started a factory in Newark, New Jersey in 1870, known as the "Celluloid Manufacturing Company of New York.
W. B. Carpenter took out patent #235,933 on December 28, 1880 for a method of coloring eyebrows and hair of celluloid dolls. The following year, February 8, 1881, M. C. Lefferts and W. B. Carpenter received patent #237,559 for the actual doll itself. This appears to be the first Amercan-made celluloid doll. The specifications signified the entire doll was to be made of celluloid or some compound of pyroxyline.